Cartoon from Puck, August 9, 1899. Uncle Sam sees hyphenated voters and asks, "Why should I let these freaks cast whole ballots when they are only half Americans?"
Obama, on behalf of his reelection campaign, announces their strategy to
court African-American voters, a voting bloc that he heavily secured
during his first run. In 2008, Obama received 95% of the black vote.
Obama's campaign statement is below.
Today, we're announcing the 2012 launch of African Americans for Obama.
There's no better time than African American History Month to consider the tremendous progress we've made through the sacrifice of so many—or a better time to commit to meeting the very real challenges we face right now. More here:
Yes, well ... listen to me, if you've been so brainwashed as to refer to yourself as an "African-American (or any hyphenated American,) then spare me from listening to your idiocy. You need to be watching TV for more confirmation of your victimhood and how whitey is at the root of all your problems.
By the way, you must be very proud of how the media has switched names for you all these years ... from Negro, to Black, to Afro-Americans, to African Americans ... and how you go along with every switch ... because it's crucial to update names for the pigeon hole, don't you agree?
Former President Theodore Roosevelt in speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, asserted that,
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
President Woodrow Wilson regarded "hyphenated Americans" with suspicion, saying, "Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready." From Wikipedia:
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