Non-White People Are Part of America

If you are not a White Christian can you be part of America?  The answer is an emphatic yes.  The question is personal to me.

Just 25 years ago a salesman at my employer asked me if I celebrated Thanksgiving considering that I am Jewish.  Huh, what does my religion have to do with celebrating a national holiday?  In his mind I was not part of America because I am not a White Christian.  He was wrong.  President Barack Obama has settled that question.

James W. von Brunn, the white supremacist, charged with the killing of Stephen Tyrone Johns, a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. is an aberration.

Non-White Americans are all as much a part of this nation as White Christians.  Laws related to Affirmative Action have become more irrelevant as employers and most people have realized that color, ethnicity, and religion are not tests of a man’s quality.

That is what was stated in Declaration of Independence.  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  We, our parents, or grandparents emigrated to the United States because we/they believed those words.  It’s a goal this country is still trying to achieve.  We are getting closer.  Happily the KKK is becoming history.