Which is to say, white Christian supremacist:
For the United States and Europe, we belong together. America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.
We are part of one civilization – Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
Leaving aside the reality that many of the Founders viewed themselves as creating a new world, unencumbered by the mannerisms, traditions–and the monarchy–of the old world, this hits very differently when when one reads it, as I am, a couple of blocks away from the National Museum of American Jewish Military History.
Without getting into the debate over the phrase “this is not who we are as a nation”, this is definitely not who we should be or aspire to be as a nation.
mikethemadbiologist