e Pluribus Unum – a pre-Independence Day reflection

The motto of The United States of America: “E Pluribus Unum – Out of many, One” – is a truly great sentiment, which indicates the way by which any person, no matter what religious, ethnic, racial background was left behind in coming to America, is able to become every bit as American as anyone that might be directly descended from its Founders. Being an American, is not something that is received from or passed down by blood, but through consciously embracing its ideals.

For those who’ve forgotten, probably by way of what they’ve learned, diversity itself is neither a value nor a concern, it is but a simple fact of life – for you may rest assured that wherever there are any three people gathered, some ‘diversity’ exists between them. But to value diversity as such in America, is to value what divides one person from one another, and to focus upon that will rend them apart through the failure to focus upon what there is that is present to each of us which could and should bring us all together as one. Where ‘diversity’ is used in a divisive manner, it passes beyond the merely concerning, and becomes an active evil towards all of our lives, expressing not only an anti-American sentiment, but an anti-human one, as well.

The Declaration of Independence is the political and literary path towards joining with your fellow Americans of divers backgrounds, as one people, and valuing it as that is the means by which your particular background can be seen as a unique value which adds to our whole, rather than as a means of reducing us all to less than we are and should be. 

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