Diversity - Unity

We have heard much ado about how it is diversity that gives us our strength. The Army Chief of Staff at Fort Hood made it a point to say that we must preserve our diversity. The dictionary defines diversity as: 1.a. The fact or quality of being diverse. b. A point or respect in which things differ. 2. Variety or multiformity. Diverse is defined as: 1. Distinct in kind; unlike. 2. Having variety in form; diversified.

I have difficulty understanding how diversity begets strength. It appears to me that a more appropriate and important characterization of us and our strength as a nation is unity which is defined as: 1. The state of being one; singleness. 2. The state, quality, or condition of accord or agreement; concord. 3.a. The combination or arrangement of parts into a whole; unification b. a combination or union thus formed.

What we need is UNITY, not diversity if we ever intend to preserve the concept of: "In order to form a more perfect union. . . ." Diversity does nothing but segregate us into conclaves of unlikeness. Unity brings us joined together as one. Our liberal-minded obsession with diversity and political correctness will be our undoing.

If you come to America come legally, then join us as Americans. Learn English, our language. Learn our mores and values. Learn our history. Assimilate into the great melting pot and become one of us. Else, stay away.

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag.... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'

~ Theodore Roosevelt 1907