To: Doctor Stochastic
Furthermore, you did not demonstrate anything "racist" about a request for immigrants to speak English. A racist would actually want immigrants to stay ignorant of the common language, because it will assure them less influence.
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07/09/2002 11:10:25 AM PDT by
B Knotts
To: B Knotts
"A racist would actually want immigrants to stay ignorant of the common language,"
But so many don't see that. It's not as if you can't have a newspaper, periodical, local cable show, parties, religious, social gatherings in the language of your choice or not a speak it at home.
You're free to do that. Insisting on a lingua franca is NOT racism. As you say, its exactly the opposite. Most Latino parents want English fluency for their kids.
It's only the self-appointed "community activists" and the Bilingual Lobby with a vested interest in keeping people seperate who support some of these cockamamie idea.
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