No Country for Hyphenated Americans

What is an American: Part 2 in a series

Earlier this month I posted “What is an American,” an essay where I tried to explain what makes someone American—and how it’s about more than a document.

In this post, I’m including an excerpt of a speech. I didn’t write it—it was delivered 110 years ago in New York City.

But it holds up quite well—and still applies to our current moment in which ungrateful, bratty Ugandan Indians and Somalian natives who understand nothing of what it means to “be American” stomp around filled with resentment towards this country and its legacy population. Worse, they claim to be the “true Americans,” unlike the bigoted and awful legacy citizens who want immigration from these third-world America-hating hotbeds to cease.

Rooftop Americans

The loathsome Bill Kristol actually declared that his pick to be the next president is Vladymyr Zelenskyy, since h…