Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I am an American. When other rabble rousers and colleagues challenge my creative understanding of the way things simply are, I stand tall and say Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! A short time afterwards my contributions and confrontations were celebrated for posterity. Humanity will harness the confidence and strength I brought for great good or great destruction. The people I lead will either wipe cities out of existence to end a war, or they will use my confidence in the American way to free and educate hundreds of thousands of people on some of the toughest questions humanity has had to deal with in its history.
I am American. While my people became an endangered species, I took matters into my own hands and secured their prosperity in the future. I travelled across this continent, debated and pleaded with New World leaders, worked with my people, until I thought I had found a solution to save my kind.
Decades afterward, my enterprise was completed. My people went from a persecuted and flea infested minority which was shackled and bound on ships from Africa, sold by Europeans to expats in the New World, and worked like an animal in the fields an animal with few if any basic human rights to a productive, dignified equal with our former masters, within a few years.
What I said to my people over and over again was this: I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I am American. I love my distinct identity and original way of looking at things. I never demand people from other cultures to convert to my ways but I only admire other people when I see their own distinct productivity and the hard work they do for their culture. Hopefully, one day, we can forge alliances, when we are both strong and independent.
I am American. I master the religion and tradition of my rivals and allies.
I am American. I study the ways of my allies and my rivals, so that I can work better with them or against them.
I am American. While my people became an endangered species, I took matters into my own hands and secured their prosperity in the future. I travelled across this continent, debated and pleaded with New World leaders, worked with my people, until I thought I had found a solution to save my kind.
Decades afterward, my enterprise was completed. My people went from a persecuted and flea infested minority which was shackled and bound on ships from Africa, sold by Europeans to expats in the New World, and worked like an animal in the fields an animal with few if any basic human rights to a productive, dignified equal with our former masters, within a few years.
What I said to my people over and over again was this: I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I am American. I love my distinct identity and original way of looking at things. I never demand people from other cultures to convert to my ways but I only admire other people when I see their own distinct productivity and the hard work they do for their culture. Hopefully, one day, we can forge alliances, when we are both strong and independent.
I am American. I master the religion and tradition of my rivals and allies.
I am American. I study the ways of my allies and my rivals, so that I can work better with them or against them.
