Posted on 12/17/2007 12:07:41 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
THEY SAY YOU can't fight City Hall, but last Friday Joey Vento stood tall (at 5-foot-5) in the center ring of the circus to answer a discrimination complaint filed against him by the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. Vento's been a handy punching bag for the press. Local editorial writers and columnists have vilified him as a racist, a nativist, a know-nothing, a do-badder, because of his (now world-famous) 4-by-9-inch sign at the window of his Geno's Steaks that reads: "This is America. When Ordering, Please Speak English." Some believe that is hate speech.
For some reason (hate, perhaps?) the 6 1/2 -hour hearing was conducted entirely in English, a clear slap in the face to the Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander and Esperanto communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
You don't live in Southern California. We get 3 for Vietnamese, and sometimes more...
Nobody has mentioned that you don’t need to speak English to say ‘cheese wit’.
I’m sad now that I did not go to Geno’s the one time I was in Philadelphia.
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