Let's Take Back America

Here's the deal.. we see every faction of individuals proudly promoting their uniqueness. We see the Gay Pride Parades, the Million Man March on Washington, the KKK demonstartions...just about every contingent of different group wants to have a march or a parade to show their solidarity.

Where is the Traditional American Monogamous Heterosexual Hike to the Capital? Where are we "Americans of Heritage" and why don't we have a parade in our honor?

I have asked many folks about this. I have had a variety of responses...all of them in grand support of the idea. A few have voiced concerns that were "we" to hold such a grand display that we would necessarily invite every neo-Nazi in the country. Which, of course, would not be the idea. The only idea behind this would be a proud salute to what it means to be a traditional US citizen.

I have been thinking about who we would have as a parade Marshall. I can imagine the likes of Tommy Lee Jones, Micheal Phelps, or my friend Mike at the feed store.

Mike even has a slogan for the festival, he wants it to be "Let's Take Back America".

I think it's a good slogan, it seems we as Americans in the search for more have given away so much. Our commitment to freedom and democracy may have just let a few of our freedoms slip.

Don't get me wrong, I am still happier to be in this country than anywhere else. I just would like to have a faction to belong to and I don't. I am just a lowly, run-of-the-mill, heterosexual, monogamous, non-Hispanic, non-Mideast extremist, non-Afro person. No, I'm not a racist. I just have concerns that everyone else gets to have a parade but me.

I just want a group to belong to. A group of my very own that will speak out proudly about how much they like everyone else we are while being so different.