How dare we sit back and let our government start a war of the races. I am sick of the discrimination against Latinos. I mean just recently Newt Gingrich suggests that we prohibit the printing of bilingual documents because he feels that immigrants should learn the language. He also suggests that in addition to the citizenship test they take and the documents they fill out that they should pass a English efficiency test, so they can "learn the language of the government. Here's what he said in full.
"The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up" to vote, said Gingrich, who is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He made the comments in a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women. "The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."
How dare he put words in my mouth I am an American and I don't feel that way. Don't get me started on the fact that he called it "the ghetto. "The whole point of the idea of having a land of the free, is to have a place where different cultures can come together and be able to work as one. It wouldn't be fair of us to not take the effort to learn other people's culture and language while at the same time forcing them to learn ours. It is disrespectful, and it goes against the idea that this country was founded on. What's the point in claiming to be the "United States" when we really aren't united at all. Sound like false advertisement to me.
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