It seems that America has become a country obsessed with classifying its citizens into different racial and ethnic sub-groups. President Obama is routinely called the first Black president, but isn’t he also half white? To be more accurate, isn’t he really the first mixed race president? The media and special interest groups constantly refer to him as the Black president. Americans are constantly being bombarded by government and media reports of the first Hispanic person to do this, the first Asian person to do that, or the first Black person to do something else.

My message to the government bureaucrats, the special interest groups and the mass media is that the vast majority of Americans don’t care what a person’s race or ethnic origin is. Throughout our history, Americans of all races and ethnic backgrounds have fought and died as one people to preserve this country’s freedoms and liberties, not to separate us or divide us into racial and ethnic groups.

America has always been known as a country of rugged individualism based on individual freedom and liberty, not race and ethnic origin. Most Americans do not care if Black people comprise 12.1% of the population or 14.3%. They do not care if Hispanic people comprise 19% or 28% of the population. The Racial and Ethnic classification of Americans is nothing more than institutionalized racism and must be ended. Rather than helping a diverse population become assimilated and united as one nation, the Federal government is doing what the Nazi government of Germany did in the 1930’s and 40’s; creating government supported institutionalized racism by the intentional classification of it’s citizens by race and ethnicity.

Americans are also beginning to realize that racial and ethnic identification is more a matter of personal choice than anything else. In the 2000 Census, seven million American citizens refused to place themselves into a single category by refusing to describe themselves as only white, black, Asian, Latino or any one of the other specific categories listed, because they were of mixed race. Attempts by the government to create a “mixed race” box for the 2000 Census was met with resistance by racial and ethnic special interest groups like the NAACP and the National Council of La Raza, because they feared that a mixed-race box could pose a danger to the justification for their existence.

The only groups that actively support the continued collection of racial and ethnic data are big government bureaucrats and "racial and ethnic special interest groups” that also happen to receive significant funding from the federal government. These organizations argue that identifying people by race and ethnicity is necessary in order to redress some past injustice and that the federal government must continue to collect and use this information in order to set up special racial and ethnic programs, affirmative action quotas and other set-asides for these groups, many of whom now consist of new immigrants, illegal aliens and non-citizens. Nothing can be further from the truth. In a country where we can no longer ask people what religion they are, what their party affiliation is or what their sexual orientation is, why are we still asking them about their racial and ethnic background?

The fuzzier such racial and ethnic categories become, the harder it will be for these racial and ethnic special interest groups and the government to traffic in them. If a mixed-race category were to be added, every brown-skinned person of mixed race registered in this category would shrink the government’s official count of Blacks, Latinos, Asians or American Indians, eventually reducing their political influence and ultimately the amount of money these groups receive from the federal government, which amounts to approximately $200 billion a year.

With the support of racial and ethnic special interest groups, our federal government seems to view our citizens not just as Americans, but rather as “pawns” in some social science experiment to be classified and separated into different racial or ethnic sub-groups for some unknown purpose. By mandating the classification of Americans into specific racial and ethnic sub-groups, the federal government and the advocates of “diversity” are actually perpetuating institutionalized racism and keeping Americans artificially divided. Maybe that is their real plan.

If we want to help poor Americans escape poverty, get better health care, find a job or get a good education, why should it matter what their race or ethnic background is? The answer is: It should not! Americans need to come together as members of one country and remember that we are all individual Americans, regardless of race or ethnic background. Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired a nation when he voiced his dream for a color-blind nation, a nation in which people would be judged by the content of their characters, "not the color of their skin."

The answer to this government encouraged racism is the concept of Liberty with a limited, constitutional government that is devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than the claims of different racial and ethnic special interest groups. Where Liberty is present, individual achievement and competence are rewarded, not people’s skin color or ethnicity.

The American people need legislation barring the federal government from the collection of racial and ethnic information about them and/or the classification of American citizens by race and ethnicity, including the collection of this data for census information.  Exceptions should be made for law enforcement, hospitals and medical research purposes.

I am proud to be an American and it is none of the government’s business what my race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnic background is.

For Freedom, Liberty and Sovereignty,

 

John Wallace

www.4FLS.com

By May 1, 2009, The World Health Organization reported only 331 cases of swine flu worldwide (outside of Mexico), but still declared the crisis to be at level 5 alert on a scale of 6, meaning that they considered this strain of flu an all-out pandemic. On the same date, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that there were 109 cases in the U.S., with several states possibly confirming an additional 22 cases. Did these numbers indicate that a national crisis was at hand? We never did hear the final results of the suspected cases, because most of them turned out to be just the regular flu.

Let’s put these numbers in perspective: According to the Centers for Disease Control, 36,000 Americans die each year (almost 100 a day) from various forms of the flu virus, yet it is not considered a pandemic or a crisis.  Worldwide, Malaria kills 3,000 people every day, but the World Health Organization only considers it "a health problem" and not a pandemic. Of course, there are no fancy vaccines for malaria that can rake in billions of dollars in a very short time period when governments and individuals order millions of doses of vaccines and medications in response to a threat of a new flu pandemic. 

Back in 1976, when the Swine Flu last hit America, the Ford Administration tried to use the fear of a pandemic to force 220 million Americans to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.  In a very short period of time, the pharmaceutical industry made $135 million on their vaccines, which had been given to nearly 40 million Americans before the accumulation of fatalities and crippling side effects caused the program to be stopped. When the questionable “pandemic threat” was over, only one person in America had died from the Swine flu, but 25 other Americans had died from the vaccine. By the way, the pharmaceutical companies managed to protect themselves from lawsuits by pre-arranging for the government to assume any liabilities in case there was a problem with the vaccines.  

More recently, in 2006, there was another worldwide pandemic threat called the Avian flu. The same type of videos and stories appeared throughout the media. ABC News even pushed the possibility of a pending worldwide apocalypse to the public by featuring a doctor-for-hire who predicted “that 50% of the population of the world could die” because of the Avian flu. Of course that never happened. Although the death of any person is a tragedy, only 257 people in the entire world died from the Avian flu. That’s 257 people out of 6.5 billion. It could hardly be considered a pandemic or a worldwide health threat. Because of the Avian Flu scare, the Bush Administration purchased and stockpiled millions of doses of anti-flu drugs in case of a future pandemic. Back then, some people thought that the threat of the Avian flu pandemic was cleverly created, manipulated and designed to frighten the American people, in order to line the pockets of politically connected investors and pharmaceutical companies.  

If the profit motive was not part of the reason for the hype and the threat to the American people was real, then why did our government not take the overt actions necessary to protect its own citizens? With almost 2,000 official swine flu cases originating in Mexico, most European and Asian countries, including China, temporary closed their airports to flights from Mexico in order to protect their citizens. Our government took no such steps to protect its citizens against this threat and our borders remained wide open with no restrictions or limitations on Mexicans entering the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security advised that they were on top of the situation and were watching people entering the U.S. for signs of illness. On the surface that sounded like the government was at least doing something, until you read the April 27 Reuters report on what is really happening at the border and that “Mexicans were continuing to (illegally) cross the border by car and foot, seemingly unconcerned by the influenza scare and only a handful are wearing masks.” The failure to secure the border in a time of emergency in order to protect the health and welfare of American citizens was a clear sign that this administration had chosen political correctness over the safety of its own citizens. It’s sad to say, but I don’t believe a Republican administration would have taken the necessary steps either.

By mid-May the whole Swine Flu scare was over and the hype died down. The American borders were still wide open for illegal immigrants and terrorists to enter the country; the pharmaceutical companies made billions; the media companies made hundreds of millions from pharmaceutical company advertising and the administration took credit for a job well done.  Thank God it wasn’t a real emergency!

Numerous doctors and scientists suspect that the swine flu virus was actually cultured in a laboratory. A mainstream Australian virologist, Adrian Gibbs …; who was one of the first to analyze the genetic properties of the 2009 swine flu …; believes that scientists accidentally created the H1N1 virus while producing vaccines. And Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director, “This strain of swine influenza that’s been cultured in a laboratory is something that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been identified.” Because of this, the 2009 swine flu virus …; which has yet to be detected in any animals …; has a rather suspicious pedigree.

Just wait until the 2009-2010 Flu season is upon us. The globalists will be at it again, trying to create another worldwide health crisis. The World Health organization will be issuing bulletins and will probably go to a level 6 Alert. Our elected and appointed government officials here in the U.S. will open command posts and will be operating in a panic mode. The pandemic stories and newscasts will be given worldwide exposure, followed by pharmaceutical ads. Some of our federal and state leaders might even call for mandatory vaccinations as they did in 1976. 

The threat of a worldwide swine flu epidemic will again be blown way out of proportion. Yes, people will get sick, and yes people will die. That's typical for every yearly flu outbreak. What I am concerned about this time is the threats of mandatory vaccinations, which in themselves are a health hazard.   These new vaccines haven't gone through the rigors of normal testing and we will run the risk of a repeat of what happened in the 1976 swine flu outbreak, where there were more deaths from the vaccine than from the flu itself.  

Rather than taking a vaccine to fight a virus that may simply make us ill and we would build up a natural immunity to, it would be better and healthier to let the natural immunity happen.