<...There's plenty of genuine opportunities to champion the courage and patriotism of Americans of all diverse backgrounds. Go ahead and write a book, make a movie, build a sculpture to honor the gay man who helped lead the charge on the hijacked Flight 93, or the women and minorities who perished in the WTC, or who proudly serve their country in the war in Afghanistan, etc. In other words, why not do it truthfully?

I've got an even better idea. How about we get over the concept of evaluating people by irrelevant things like race, sexual orientation, etc.? And better yet, can we get over having to carve identities for ourselves by borrowing the achievements of people who share nothing more important with us than things like skin color, gender, or sexual preference?

There is nothing sadder than to see someone hold up some distant ancestor, or someone who happens to share some superficial likeness to oneself, and bask in whatever glory you hope will rub off. Liberal minority history revisionists do this a lot. See, they say, my distant ancestors in Egypt invented the boat. A black man invented the stoplight. Alexander the Great was gay. History is full of amazing people who had the same melanin level as I do, or the same eye shape, or the same color hair! And there are heroes from September 11 with those VERY SAME PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS! Isn't that wonderful? They're just like me!

So friggin what? Did YOU invent the boat? What the hell have YOU done lately? I'm German. So was Albert Einstein. So where's MY Nobel Prize? Oh yeah, Hitler was German too. Now what am I supposed to think about myself? This kind of thinking makes no sense to me at all.

So we get crap like Black History Month, since obviously a black kid can't admire someone like Abraham Lincoln, Aristotle, Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, or anyone else who doesn't share his superficial physical characteristics.

And we get crap like this statue incident, as though black kids looking at three white guys putting up a flag will automatically assume that black people couldn't do anything like this since none of the statues is black. Kids don't think like that, which is why a little black kid has no problem running around pretending to be Superman, or my son had no problem when he was younger pretending to be the black hero "J" of "Men In Black." This kind of race-specific valuation is drummed into them later during the "education" process.

Of course the achievements of others are inspiring. To look up to others who have done great things is good. But it's ludicrous to assume that unless they somehow look like you, it doesn't count. Yet that seems to be the predominant thesis today.