Posted on 04/19/2007 8:24:46 PM PDT by Ladycalif
SAN BERNARDINO - Strife over the importance of bilingual education in a mostly Latino district has undermined civility in school board affairs.
It reached a crescendo Tuesday when a county school board member denounced a San Bernardino City Unified school board member's father as a bigot and a racist dog.
The insults lobbed by activist Gil Navarro at Tuesday night's San Bernardino school board meeting prompted two board members, Judi Penman and Louise Ayala, to leave in a rage.
Disagreements over bilingual education and support for Latino groups have roiled the district for weeks.
Ruben Lopez, Ayala's father and target of Navarro's comments, spoke against bilingual education earlier in the meeting. Navarro, known for his fiery activism, was elected last year to the county board of education after about 10 failed runs for public office.
Taking the microphone at Tuesday's meeting, Navarro introduced himself as an education advocate and said, "I'm also a Navy veteran. And I gave the oath to my country to lay down my life against bigots and racist dogs like Ruben Lopez."
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ROFL! Racist dog?
Dogs UNITE!
Interesting that this debate on bilingual education is taking place between warring factions of Latinos and their allies. I always have to wonder who benefits from keeping Spanish speakers in this country monolingual. Gee, could it be demagogues like that Navarro fellow, who manages to bring his service in the Navy into the argument, although it has no relevance whatsoever?
I watching as the same californians who would vote for Navarro who moved up to Seattle are now voting the same type of politicians in and this city is really starting to fall apart.
Nothing is getting accomplished. Every piece of legislation has to first get the approval of illegal immigrants, environmental wackos, gays and lesbians.
already happening up here in Seattle.
The Navarro/Kerry oath: Never be humble, award yourself lots of Purple Hearts, stab your fellow veterans in the back, and kiss Jane Fonda’s ass.
“I’m also a Navy veteran. And I gave the oath to my country to lay down my life against bigots and racist dogs like Ruben Lopez.”
“Funny, my husband does not remember that part of the oath.”
Nor do I ROFL
It’s too expensive to accommodate more than one public language or ethnic culture for business and government in the USA. Having English as our sole official national.language and our traditional US culture for social customs is less expensive and more efficient. Foreigners who share our language and culture are less expensive and bothersome to have in our country.
Both sides want the topic to be about racial considerations, but it’s not. It’s about getting more important things done and having less stress. If foreigners of other languages and cultures want to be here, they should become very competent in English and US social customs first—regardless of how much money their families have.
And family immigration should take precedence over cheap labor and/or un-American levels of subservience to bosses (foreign customs).
You don’t want to know the kind of names I’ve been called by some of my fellow Latinos because I’m against illegal immigration. They sound like they’re in an NBA locker room.
just throw the baboon out.
It’s happening here in Houston at warp speed.
Me too. En dos idiomas.
I must have slept through that part of my oath as well.
Could activist Gil Navarro be related to Marxist Revolutionary UC Riverside professor Armando Navarro?
Hey, at least they’re being bilingual and not hypocrites!
The only way to confront an a-hole is to debate them, scream if you must. Being meek is never going to cut it, people won’t respect you for being silent and miffed. It just doesn’t work.
When I was still working and people would interrupt my presentation with nothing to add but vitriol, I found that if I raised my voice and just kept talking, eventually the offending party would shut up. They can always raise their alternative points later.
From a Department of Education report on the 1984 National Association of Bilingual Educators Conference (as quoted in Democracy or Babel by Fernando de la Pena,1991)
“With the exception of the Closing General Session, every General Session, Major Session and Symposium advocated a greater role of the federal government in education, specifically bilingual education programs. Most speakers expounded at length on the need for, and the eventuality of,a multi-lingual,multi-culteral United States of America with a national language policy, citing English and Spanish as the two”legal”languages.”
A Hispanic named Navarro is upset about “bigots and racist dogs like Ruben Lopez.”
If Navarro had said “bigots and racist dogs like John Smith”, we would all understand what he was insinuating. Namely, Smith was a white American citizen bigot etc who had insulted a Hispanic immigrant (read illegal alien) and was deserving of life in prison.
However Lopez is a Hispanic, and the father of a Hispanic county school board member who is married to a hispanic named Alaya. So why was Navarro called a bigot and a racist dog?
Navarro wants to save the American taxpayers in CA millions of dollars by discontinuing “bilingual education” Bilingual education is actual not bilingual at all but mostly if not all taught in one language, always Spanish.
“Navarro said after the meeting that he believes Lopez is racist because of his views and his friendship with Joseph
Turner, a vociferous anti-illegal immigration activist who says he dislikes illegal immigration - not Latinos.”
So you see Navarro is racist because he wants illegal alien kids to learn English and for American taxpayers to cease having to pay for Spanish only education and worse because Navarro has white American friends who dislike “illegal immigration” even if they do like “Latinos” I thought diversity and multi-culturalism and cant we all just get along was good for the nation?
I’m confused..........
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