No More Hyphenated Americans

Every time we say the Pledge of Allegiance, we confess that we are "one nation," but there is less and less cultural evidence of that.  In fact, after eight years of perhaps the most divisive president in American history, we are more balkanized than ever.  Not only have the ethnic divisions been exacerbated by the constant allegations of racism and white privilege, but we now contend with a whole new set of tribal identities.  We are not only segmented by racial classifications of black, white, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, but shoehorned into the mix are sexual categories of gay; lesbian; bisexual; transgender, and, according to Facebook, 56 other gender identities.

With the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, the time has come to take a bold step toward unity.  To borrow from the president-elect, it is time to make America unified again.  We will never be perfectly unified, but we can reverse the politics of division and reorient our culture toward unity.

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