"Our Country"
This forwarded email has created a flame firestorm in my extended family. Tell me how I should respond
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Don't usually get on the political band wagon, but I couldn't agree more with every single one of Andy's comments, and thought it was a good read!!-- My cousin says.
Here's what Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks
back:
I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of
anything except numbers.
The only things I can think of that are truly
discriminatory are things like the United Negro College
Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and
Miss Black America.
Try to have things like the United Caucasian College
Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or
Miss White America; and see what happens... Jesse
Jackson will be knocking down your door.
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you
a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a
car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the
ball game.
I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason;
that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in
the Girl Scouts!
ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?
I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is
not a phobia, it is an opinion.
I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because
they are different, weird, or tick me off.
When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in
cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not
racial profiling; it is the Law of Probability.
I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack
of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do
it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an
American citizen, you should have to speak English!
My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can
leave the countries you were born in to come over and
disrespect ours.
I think the police should have every right to shoot your
sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to
stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or
"stop" in English, see the above lines.
I don't think just because you were not born in this
country, you are qualified for any special loan
programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks,
etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket
store, or any other business.
We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries
and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so
that decades later they could come over here and tell us
our constitution is a living document; and open to their
interpretations.
I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor.
I know pro wrestling is fake , but so are movies and
television.
That doesn't stop you from watching them.
I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny
he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off,
go and invent the next operating system that's better,
and put your name on the building.
It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right,
but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and
smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"
I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them,
but please don't pretend they are a political statement.
And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I
don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you
serve me French fries!
I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of
black people, and not a single one of them was born in
Africa ; so how can they be "African-Americans"?
Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying
I am a European-American because my great, great, great,
great, great, great grandfather was from Europe . I am
proud to be from America and nowhere else.
And if you don't like my point of view, tough...
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA , AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE
NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
FOR ALL! AMEN!
I was asked to send this on if I agree or delete if I
don't. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God.
Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why
there is such a problem in having "In God We Trust" on
our money and having "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Why don't we just tell the 14% to Shut Up, lay down and
BE QUIET!!!
If you agree, pass this on, if not delete...