“This is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There’s not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United State of America.” – Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
He also said he didn’t want to pit Blue America against Red America, giving a lot of people, including a number of whites, high hopes for a Barack Obama in 2008. He won the presidency with 52.9 percent of the vote.
He has failed to deliver. In fact he has succeeded in dividing the nation.
It was refreshing to hear Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal emphatically say, “I’m tired of hyphenated Americans. We’re not Indian Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. We’re all Americans.” And in making the statement, he talked of how “Hillary Clinton is already trying to divide us by ethnicity, by gender and by economic status.”
Jindal’s belief may not be enough to get him elected, but it’s a belief all of the GOP candidates should support.
