This weekend gained much attention because of the Super Bowl Football Game.

I watch football with only a bit of interest but enjoy the company of family when we gather together to watch the game. I am happy the team I chose actually won. I had no clue to its standings or its abilities as a team but chose them for their logo and team colors.

It was emotional to watch the coach give his acceptance speech in front of millions of on-lookers after the game. It intrigued me that this coach, who so proudly announced his faith in GOD and the accomplishments with which that faith allowed for success came AFTER him first announcing his accomplishments of being the FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN football coach to win the Super Bowl.

It would seem that if God were truly his guiding abilities, he would have chosen that announcement to be voiced prior to the fact he proudly calls himself AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

When did it become that we Americans must declare our individualities as a culture in order to be proud?

I must have been knocked off the so-called culture wagon early on in life.  I was raised to believe I am an American through and through and above all else.

My father was an Immigrant from the Azore Islands of Portugal. My grandparents spoke only Portuguese when they arrived and leaned enough English to survive in their community of Oakland, California. They became U.S. Citizens through the proper channels and time span. Because my father was born on the high seas on their immigration trip, and landed in the port at Mare Island, California, his birth place was announced to be Oakland, California.

Nice? Yes, in fact he was so very proud to be an American Citizen, that he refused to teach his children Portuguese as a second language since English was the accepted language of this country and yet, he taught us to be proud of our culture from two different worlds. Our mother was Dutch, an American Citizen herself born right here in Vina, California. Our two parents proudly kept the two cultures alive during our childhood days by attending different cultural activities and meeting with many different families and cultures...and yet, we were raised to believe we are Americans first, and culturally second. 

When did this American Practice be thrown from our American Way? My first thoughts are...not when Rosa Parks took her brave stand against segregation and became known for her wanting equal rights but rather, when Martin Luther King made his beautiful "I Have a Dream" speech.

I do not see that it has become as he wanted;  he wanted everyone to be included in his dream of all people's living together in peace and harmony. But what it has produced is a cultural race for supremacy...the very thing Martin Luther King denounced. The majority of Black Americans today believe strongly that since their ancestors were held as slaves in this country, that we American Citizens owe them the status of being given restitution for the slavery situation. Are they not American Citizens too?

This is not the trail Martin Luther King had in mind to travel. He disparately wanted all citizens to live together in harmony; not be shouting from the top of the cultural heap and demand accelerated equal rights.

The Black American demands have come full circle and are now in the same position as the American's who held slavery and produced segregation. The Black Americans have taken the term "America is a melting pot of cultures" and turned the melting pot into a "Stew-Like" culture with the different vegetable groups straining to be the best and most liked. The Black Americans have become a demanding cultural group wanting notoriety and certain rights above those rights each citizen already owns. If you haven't noticed...our society is right  back to where it was before the Civil Rights Movement began!

Has Martin Luther King's dream come to light? Not in any manner.

Our nation is segregated. 

But here's a thought...

What if Martin Luther King had been a White-skinned, Portuguese American? Would our country be like it is now, segregated, or would it be as Martin Luther King dreamed of?

Why do we have the racial discrimination today? It has much to do with the Black Americans demanding more and more civil rights above and beyond the average citizen's rights. You question that statement?

Here's another thought...

What would the Black Americans do if there were to be a TV channel designated as "White Entertainment Theater"? Or, yet, "White Colleges of America"? Why is it okay for the Black Americans to discriminate for their skin color but any other cultural would be cut down immediatly with discrimination charges?
And yet here's another thought...

Where is the ACLU when it comes to this reversed discrimination? It is not clear to most citizens, the law has failed to protect all of its citizens, not just the Black Americans.

Here's one more thought...

Should we follow suite as the Black Americans have and continue to identify each culture as they do. For example; the Italians are now Italian-Americans, the Japanese are Japanese-Americans, the Canadians are now Canadian-Americans and don't forget the poor Mexicans from south of the jellow-border...they are as loud as the Black-Americans in proudly announcing they are Mexican-Americans.

Why is it so important that these people feel their culture is announced first and their American status second?

Is it not America that provides them shelter and more individual rights than any other country in the world?
 
Why are they "biting the hand that feeds them?"

Each cultural society in the United States has the same individual rights, responsibilities, and possibilities as the next citizen. It's what this country is about.

Why then, do you suppose the Black Americans continually bring to the front page of our media this desire to divide our country back into an antiquated methodology that graces the failing European countries and its class system? Are they not Americans first and above all? 

If the American Citizens don't believe that from their heart, then maybe a mandatory move to another country is in their near future. Because, this country is for everyone, not just a few select elitist's who want to manipulate our society into feeling guilt over something that occurred over a hundred years ago. We have laws in place that ensures segregation will not happen again...unless, we allow racism to poison our laws that are already established and prevent segregation. Wake up America!   Together We Stand, Divided We Fall.

What's in your future coach? Supremacy or Americanism.