There’s been a lot of talk lately about who the “real” Americans are.  The implication is real Americans are whites – though no one has a good definition of what “white” is. And how immigrants cannot be “real Americans” because they “just got here” and have not contributed to the nation.  OK, fair enough.  But then again, babies born here haven’t contributed to the nation yet either. A better yardstick is who has died for the nation. A good example of a great American is this man, Crispus Attucks. He is the first man to be killed in the American Revolution. At the Boston Massacre.  He was of mixed race. He was the child of an escaped slave who had been born in Africa and a local Indian, a Wampanoag. That’s about as American as you can get. Next time you hear someone say “those people” are destroying America, remind them that one of “those people” was the first to die for this country.