10/01/2026
On one side of my family, I have a grandfather who was named after Robert E Lee. On the other, a grandmother named Guadalupe, who migrated by way of Mexico.
There has never been a one-drop-of-blood rule in my family, as both sides of the family taught and displayed what it means to be an American.
My grandmother told me stories of the nuns slapping her wrist with a ruler if she and her sister spoke Spanish. She never conveyed the story with tone of being a victim, but more as a reminder of what it means to be an American. They assimilated well.
My grandfathers from each side fought in the war and each spoke of America with a sense of pride, never with a sense of entitlement, and always with a mindset of privilege and appreciation.
There has risen in our culture, a great divide, with roots traced to a Marxist ideology that mandates a ‘them vs us’ victim mentality. Its aims to tear apart the fabric of what it means to be an American.
America was once a great melting pot, but today it’s become a land divided by segregated populations, each claiming an identity that holds to a past that adds no value to a country that depends on integration and unity.
If the American flag is offensive to you, you are not free, and most likely enslaved to victim mindset. If public discourse and debate offends you, you probably prefer a dictatorship over democracy.
America has never been perfect but its founding principles was a framework that allowed it to be continuously perfected. Some of the greats who signed the original articles which claimed all men were created equal, owned slaves. Their penned words to establish the country would later be used to free the slaves, give women the right to vote, and help shape us to be the greatest country in the world.
I have found that most people who live in America but hate the country, they have been influenced by the Marxist ideology.
Long ago, even before its founding, people would travel across the world, leaving behind a home, where “I can’t” was a reality, to live in a land where “I can” was a dream come true.
Today, we see many among us, living in the greatest country, trying to convince others they are suppressed, claiming, “I can’t” in a land of “I can”.
Their greatest enemy isn’t the system or other people, it’s their own mindset and in America, you are free to think and believe as you wish, so if you think “you can’t”, then you won’t, but if you believe “you can”, then you will, and as a full-blooded American, I know the truth, that here in America, you have no excuse for “I can’t”.