La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for May 16, 2022

Well, I’m an American with — as far as I know — German, British, Scottish, and Danish ancestries.

My dad and mom always claimed they (and, therefore, we, their children,) were (are) Heinz 57 variety types.

She should claim to be Afro Latina American. We are ALL Americans. Lets stop dividing ourselves from each other.

If we don’t divided ourselves how could we keep our daughters from one?/s

I’m an Okie-American.

As I’ve said, dogs come in many colors and they’re all dogs; humans also come in many colors, and they’re all human…

As we all know, it depends on how far back you want to search. Me, my great grandfather was born east of Melitopol. I could identify as Ukrainian-American, right?

OK; you can be a faux gringo, as well.

For some people, their ethnic heritage is very important; for others, not so much. Let people be proud but it is your own accomplishments that will be the bigger factor in your life.

Currently (and terrifyingly so) in the USA & Hungary and several other nations there is a significant population contingent (less than 50% but still large enough to take political control if the rest fails to act [at the polls in the next two election cycles] to stop them) which says there are only TWO national populations:

1. CAUCASIAN CITIZENS

2. the OTHER — which does not belong here

I don’t normally sympathize with him, but today he reminds me of how much my immigrant FIL hated not being accepted as a full citizen of his chosen country.

When the space invaders arrive, there will only be one race that matters — the human race!

The United States does not have an official language, so anybody can greet each other in whatever language they want. My preference is “Êl síla erin lû e-govaned vîn.”

People identifying themselves as a specific race/ethnicity/nationality, or as several, does not divide us. I’ve known plenty of people who’ve proudly told me they’re Irish or Italian, but they never added “American.” I never thought they needed to, and apparently neither did they. It’s ACTUAL RACISM that divides us. It would be wonderful if we all truly looked at each other as just Americans, but when you’re driving and you’re pulled over by the police, or if some “Karen” calls the police on you for minding your own business in a park or for barbecuing in your own backyard, then all that “we’re just Americans” stuff goes right out the window.

This Anglo-Irish-German-Lithuanian American doesn’t buy his argument.