Ancestors: Past, present, and future? Why is America so divided? Why is Race/Nationality still an issue?

Ok, this is a topic that has people completely and totally divided, but why? Where did your ancestors come from? I am not asking this to be funny, this is a serious matter! Yes, I am a white guy, but what is my nationality? Well, I was born in Texas, that makes me an American, right?

I have ancestors from Germany, and Sicily, does that make me a German-Sicilian-American? No, just an American. Doesn’t this same rule apply to everyone? No! Why is it that some won’t let go of the past?

Just because your grandfather came here from Mexico, why are you a Mexican-American? Why is it that people whose ancestors came here 200 plus years ago, are still called African-American?

Here is the way I see it, if you know who Dikembe Mutumbo is, (excuse me if I spelled that wrong), he is from Africa, and Plays basketball with the Houston Rockets, if he were to become an American Citizen, he would be an African-American, because he was born there, right? If he was to have children born here, they would be Americans, right?

Doesn’t an ancestor represent the past? I know about Germany, because I lived there, I married a girl from there and have a daughter, who was born there, guess what, she is a German! They don’t have any body that calls themselves American-Germans! So what is up with America? But my family, from there or elsewhere, became Americans! Many even changed their name so that it sounded more American, what happened to assimilation? Read more

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