The+Melting+Pot

=__T h e M e l t i n g P o t : E Pluribus Unum __= 

"In this continent, - asylum of all nations, - the energy of Irish, Germans, Swedes, Poles, and Cossacks, and all the European tribes, - of the Africans, and of the Polynesians, - will construct a new race, a new religion, a new state, a new literature, which will be as vigorous as the new Europe which came out of the smelting-pot of the Dark Ages." -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1845)

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center; display: block">"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" -Theodore Roosevelt <span style="display: block; font-size: 160%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center">

"Understand that America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! A fig for your feuds and vendettas! Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians—into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American." -**David Quixano in the play "The Melting Pot" by Israel Zangwill**

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"The Great American Melting Pot" from //Schoolhouse Rock//

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 148, 50)">OR THE SALAD BOWL?



[|Washington Post Writer William Booth Offers a Critique]

= __A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE__ = = =

<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block"> "He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">**Opportunity** closed roughly on his face" - W.E.B. Du Bois, //The Souls of Black Folk// (p. 9)

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block">"If any white person and any negro, or the descendant of any negro to the third generation, inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation was a white person, intermarry or live in adultery or fornication with each other, each of them must, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not less than two nor more than seven years." -Section 4189, Alabama Code of 1883 <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif">"The evil tendency of the crime [of adultery or fornication] is greater when committed between persons of the two races ... Its result may be the amalgamation of the two races, producing a mongrel population and a degraded civilization, the prevention of which is dictated by a sound policy affecting the highest interests of society and government." - Alabama Supreme Court in //Pace v. Alabama// (1882)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block"> =__ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block">The Future? __= =<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block"> = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center; display: block"> "I have previously observed that the mixed race is the true bond of union between the Europeans and the Indians; just so the mulattoes are the true means of transition between the white and the negro; so that wherever mulattoes abound, the intermixture of the two races is not impossible" -Alexis de Tocqueville, //Democracy in America// (433)

Barack Obama Senior and Anne Dunham, Obama's Parents

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