Americans have been told since the 1960s that we are a melting pot, a nation of immigrants, and that immigration built America. Both sides of the political aisle have largely accepted and advanced this story, often to destructive ends. It is time to reclaim what it means to be an American.
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Being American is not a licensing question or a matter of paperwork. It is not merely geographical. The Supreme Court has ruled that birth on American soil makes one an American. I disagree. If you asked the Founding Fathers—George Washington or John Adams—what it means to be an American, they would not have struggled for an answer. They would have said that anyone may join the American project and that all are welcome. But they would also have insisted on clear rules for participation.
Graphic: American Flag Waving on a Flag Pole. Noah Wulf. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
To be an American, you must assimilate into American culture. You must pledge allegiance to this country. You must speak its language. You must adopt its morals and standards. You must obey its just laws. You must respect the religion on which the nation was founded, even if you do not fully share it. And you must understand that if you arrive from outside this heritage, full assimilation takes generations. This country is the birthright of those whose ancestors came from England, founded the colonies, fought the monarchy, and settled the West.
The immigrants who historically came here came from Western countries that shared a common worldview rooted in Christendom for more than 1,500 years. They did not come seeking handouts. They came ready to work, fight, and if necessary, die for the chance to belong. There was never a true melting pot. There was a clear idea of what America is and should remain. Newcomers were expected to mold themselves to that idea while recognizing they were joining an existing people whose ancestors had already paid the price for the opportunity.
If you refuse to set aside the culture and identity of the place you left, you are not welcome. You are either fully American or you are not. There are no German-Americans, Italian-Americans, or other hyphenated versions. A nation is its people. Until recently, this nation was made up of rugged individualist Christians of Anglo-Saxon stock who stood against tyranny and were willing to die for the principles that built the country. Anyone who seeks to overturn that foundation—whether born here or not—is an enemy of the American state. Even those whose ancestors stepped off the Mayflower can betray the country by adopting a foreign culture and working to change what America has always been.
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It is time to be proud of our American heritage. The ideas that shaped this country reach back to ancient Greece, to Aristotle and Plato, to the Magna Carta, to the British constitutional tradition, to the Church of England, to the Crusaders who defended Western civilization, to the Founders who fought for sovereignty, to the men who fought one another in the Civil War over states’ rights and the end of slavery, and to every generation of American men who have confronted evil at the cost of their own lives.
It is not wrong to note that those men were overwhelmingly white Anglo-Saxon Christians. The only reason that reality has been obscured is that certain people have deliberately worked to erase it. They have labored to subvert the meaning of American identity, to elevate every other group, and to import cultures that dilute what this country is. We can debate their motives. What cannot be debated is the result.
Heritage Americans must stop apologizing. It is acceptable to be white. It is acceptable to be Christian. It is acceptable to be traditional. Our ancestors lived by these truths for nearly two thousand years. The notions that now demand we feel shame for them are recent—forty or fifty years old at most—and they are destructive.
We cannot continue to toil; we cannot continue to feed into this suicidal ideology. We must recognize the threat to the West. Cardinal Robert Sarah states, “As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West. The barbarians are already inside the city.” The threats to our civilization, but more importantly to our future generations, are as real today as they were during the Crusades. If this fact doesn’t make your blood boil, then it is time for you to start learning your history. We must look to history, we must look back to our ancestors and remember why this country, why this civilization, why the West is worth fighting for.
It is time once again to fight for those first principles that helped our forefathers build this country; our fates and the fate of Western Civilization depend on us. I refuse to let our generation be the one to allow the West to fall.
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