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I ask this again because I explained very little in my previous comment.

Separation seems a natural occurrence in human society. The family is the first form of societal separation, and nobody seems to mind that. We tend to make groups – fine. America is a diverse group – fine. But we are a group, nonetheless. The only thing that makes us cohesive is the fact that we are Americans. I completely agree with you that we are white and black and brown and red and yellow and purple and we speak the languages of the world. I don’t think I asked, in my previous comment, to homogenize. But there must be a little of goodwill from each side: if you just got hit on one cheek, you must be willing to at least allow the notion that your aggressor is sorry and will not want to hit you on the other cheek.

Hispanics are in a different situation from American blacks because a lot of us were not born here. Our children may be, but if you were not born in one country you are primarily, whether you like it or not, a foreigner. That we have chosen to make this country our home speaks volumes of the greatness of the country itself. So other than the native Indians that were robbed of their land and the Africans who were savagely forced into slavery, no other “ethnic” group has any claim to really being an American, and yet WE ARE AMERICANS.

You ever heard of the Chinese-French? How about them Lebanese-Mexicans? Never, because France and Mexico would have a collective heart attack if all of a sudden their citizens of Chinese and Lebanese descent would, respectively, start calling themselves their hyphenated names just to protest. These groups would be getting a nice swift kick in the romp and a big ol’ “go back to (wherever)!” from the rest of their citizens. We don’t really, until recently, get a big ol’ “go back to (donde sea)!” because we are actually accepted here. The government is set up in such a way that citizenship is attained rather easily (the process is indeed very easy). There will always be bigoted people, there will always be racist people, but for the most part people here will tolerate you (and tolerance is in the path to integration), so regardless of our differences, WE ARE AMERICANS.

If my neighbor thinks that I am different from him, isn’t that his problem, not mine? By the same token, then, if I separate myself from the group to which I belong, isn’t that my problem, and not the group’s? Integration must start with me. I must believe in “we,” not in “us versus them.” I will never forget who I am and where I come from, but by the same token, I cannot forget where I am. If “they” want to call me Hispanic American – that’s their deal. I am not white or black or Indian, but I have chosen to believe that we are all indeed created equal. I have willingly paid a price, rhetorically, to be here. So, no matter what those around me may think at first, I will convince them with my willingness to work together with one and all of them, that I am also an American. And I will continue to enjoy the freedom to converse openly with you, my American brother, in the faith and hope that you and I will strive together to make this an even greater nation, because it is evident that we both want to work toward that same common goal, and because after all, WE ARE AMERICANS.