Posted on 09/07/2009 1:00:03 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of a man being booed when he asked a question in Spanish at a town hall meeting. (Watch Video)
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What was the point in that? He obviously speaks English.
So he can scream out how anti immigrant “whitey” is.
Deport him!!!!
I wish someone here could translate what he said
/johnny
Nothing worth bothering with, same old leftist trash.
DEMOCRAT PLANT?
So, you believe that all the people who were booing Bishop Alvarez were Democratic Plants?
I don’t know what kind of a bishop he is, because he talks about his wife. He said that as a clergyman, he doesn’t have employer-provided health insurance. He used to be insured through his wife, but she lost her job. What was he supposed to do? I would like to know who provided him with health-care coverage in the Third World hell hole he immigrated from, and where it says in his immigration papers that U.S. taxpayers are going to provide him with benefits. He said he speaks English but feels more comfortable speaking in Spanish. I say he is a rude patán, because obviously few if any other people there speak Spanish, and the courteous thing to do is to speak in a language everyone understands.
They are Nefarious.
Yes, as it would be nefarious to boo and shout down a Bishop for speaking in his native language.
If I immigrated to a country that did not speak English, because I thought it gave me a better life than where I came from, you better believe I would show it’s citizens the respect of speaking in THEIR common language, if I could. Clearly this fellow spoke good English. This was a stunt and it was a slap in the face of the people who welcomed him in.
It's to force you to speak his language. In his culture, it means you have lost and he has won if you go along with it. Thus, he is a "Beeg Man", and you are...well you get the picture.
It would never be tolerated in his country. Really.
The Mexicans and other Spaniard derived people colonizing this country know exactly what they are doing and why. I don't know how many times that Mexicans I know told me "You gonna speak Spanish" and that's going on 30 some odd years now.
The funny thing is, the Americans still don't get it.
But everyone from Mexico does.
And that's why he did it.
what are you, stupid?
I did not SAY anythign... I ASKED a question
Was this guy speaking in Spanish, deliberately, to elicit a negative response?
What a jerk. He’s no doubt a self-proclaimed “bishop” of his own home-grown church, and he gave a whiney Dem rant about how he doesn’t have medical insurance. For one thing, clergy in an established church all have medical insurance; he’s not lacking medical insurance because he’s a clergyman, as he said, but most likely because he’s a fly-by night preacher fleecing some tiny colony of old ladies, a la Al Sharpton, and thinks that whining in Spanish gives him more street creds with his “flock.”
I hope that NONE of them were Democratic plants. It’s about time people stood up for the English language.
When the Reconquistadores, if they ever do, force me to speak Spanish, I’ll start with “Chupa mi penga y besa mis cojones.”
All I know is that the TV will show people booing a Bishop.
Somehow, I don’t think you got the phraseology right.
I don’t speak Spanish, so I entered it into Babelfish. What came out was “Penga absorbs my and kisses my cojones”.
Were you trying to say “Aspire en mi pene y bésese los cojones”? (Also courtesy of Babelfish)
Which is also interesting, because at work here in NORTHERN California, 600 miles from the Mexican border, I hear that and a lot worse in Spanish routinely from the charming people that mysteriously seem to be 100% of the janitorial staff (apparently, no Asians, Blacks, Russians, Indians and certainly no Caucasians want to do that job! It's a mystery...).
Which has always led me to wonder...is it verbal harassment when you say it in Spanish? Apparently not!
So if you wanna insult someone at work, do it in the Sacred Language of Ferdinand and Isabella, and no one will do a thing to you...
Then he can go back to wherever he came from and speak his native language in his native land. He can speak English and chose not to. This is America and we speak English; if you are going to a political setting you should have the courtesy to speak in English.
I am so sick of this country always having to cater to the lowest denominator.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Not your sick, lame, lazy and refusal to speak English!
I am an American who has English as a second language and converse with my kids in English and Spanish. My wife is able to speak to our children in English, Spanish and Hebrew.
And even though he may want us to, we are not going to go back to wherever we came from, as we are all Americans, just as I expect the Bishop is as well.
Yes, but when you address others in a public setting (as you are now), you use English; and I respect you for that. I have no problem with someone that has English as a second language. I do have a problem with someone that lives in this country and expects everyone around them speak a language other than English. I have a problem with those that refuse to assimilate. If you don't value or appreciate our language and culture, than go find one you (not you personally) do.
Most of my ancestors came to this country spoke English as a first language already. My great-grandfather however, did not. He worked the coal mines in the day time and went to night school, at his own personal expense, to learn English. He made it a family rule that English and only English would be spoken in public.
And to further my point, when I travel outside the US, I try my hardest to learn at least rudimentary phrases in the host country's language.
I understand your concern of immigrants not learning English and have done volunteer work both in a school with kids who are learning English and with adults who need to learn English.
For the kids, in the right setting and right program, learning English is rather easy. It is much harder for adults to learn a second language, especially when compounded with the obligations of family and work.
As for the Bishop, I imagine that he can speak English but may be more comfortable speaking Spanish or that he is more confidant when speaking Spanish.
There have been many times when I have been speaking Spanish to a fully bilingual person and if I unable to fully express a thought or idea in Spanish, I will revert to English.
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