BTW: Katherine Lee Bates was a lesbian.
Michael Patrick Leahy, Breitbart:
"Executives at Coca Cola thought it was a good idea to run a 60 second Super Bowl ad featuring children singing America The Beautiful -- a deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity -- in several foreign languages. The ad also prominently features a gay couple. Conservatives instantly lit up social media with objections, with many vowing to boycott the soda company's products. The lyrics of the song, written in 1893 by Wellesley College Professor Katherine Lee Bates, ask God to grant America 'brotherhood / From sea to shining sea.' As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution and American traditions in which English is the language of government. It is not a nation governed in the Anglo-American tradition of liberty. It is instead a nation governed by some all inclusive multi-cultural synthesis of the various forms of government in the world, as expressed by the multiple languages used in the Super Bowl ad to sing a uniquely American hymn that celebrates our heritage." (emphasis mine)
Yes, the tweets of outrage came fast and furious:
- #BoycottCoke everything in that @CocaCola commercial was un- American.
- Too bad there were no Americans in the coke commercial about America..
Goodbye Diet Coke never again! #BoycottCoke
- Coca Cola is the official soft drink of illegals crossing the border. #americaisbeautiful
- @CocaCola American Patriotic songs should be
sung in English only #communist #boycottcoke
Tweets of outrage at Coca Cola for airing a commercial featuring the diversity of America while singing America The Beautiful have actually spawned a " Boycott Coke " movement. Total assimilation, it seems, MUST be honored, especially during that most American of events, the Super Bowl. The "English-only" crowd screamed "BLASPHEMY!"* The commercial could have have been more reprehensible had it featured (gasp!) different religions. David Barton would have been furious, but he would have been appeased by the Budwieser commercial which did not have one truly "un-American" person in it.
Budweiser, of course, played it safe with Right-wingers and "true"
patriots by featuring a totally white homecoming of a soldier. Nothing wrong
with that. But Budweiser has never been true to its original roots: Budwies
(aka Budvar in Czech) originated in České Budějovice , in the
lower part of Bohemia (now Czech Republic). It distanced itself with Milwaukee
and Clydesdales (from Scotland, btw) and never looked back after being eclipsed
by Pilsner Urquell of the original Pilsner beers.
Assimilation: it's how you look at it.
The only foreigners not forced to assimilate
when they came to America were the Puritans who were all too eager to
assimilate Native Americans into their culture.** After the Puritans, a
certain form of "Americanism" was born - and everyone was forced to assimilate
into America and it's Puritan ethic. Money and prestige followed. People who
assimilated slowly (or not at all), collected in remote sections of the
country, but the expansion (Manifest Destiny) demanded that assimilation be the
virtual law of the land.
What "Truly
American" Right wingers don't understand about assimilation is that
it comes in different degrees and forms: first, second and even third
generation Americans are loathe to give up their roots altogether: the concept
of America as a "melting pot" is rather terrifying, melting away,
watering down actually, everything about your old culture to homogenize
yourself with everyone and form a mass of people, molded by the dictates of one
particular group that just so happens to be there slightly longer. So many
Americans have opted to keep part of their lengthier heritage while blending
into the "mainstream" with things like ... Coke.
Face it, Right-wingers, America is as diverse as your own ancestry: English,
French, Dutch, German, Italian, Filipino, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and on
... and on ... and on.
The world embraced Coke. Coke Embraced the world. The world embraced America.
America embraced the world. Get over it.
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