To: Dog Gone
Sounds like sour grapes to me! Multi-culturalism, tolerance, and diversity were the watchwords for this guy, until "his" ox was gored. He still identifies himself as a hyphenated-american, as opposed to simply an American! What's that Shakespeare line about protesting too much? I think it's too much, too late!
To: old school
Multi-culturalism, tolerance, and diversity were the watchwords for this guy, until "his" ox was gored.>
I thought so too, at first, but he makes a compelling case. Blacks speak English, and have a history of serving this country (in war, for example). Hypothetically, would non-English speaking citizens be excluded from the draft if there were a dire national emergency?
Language is the greatest obstacle to assimilation, and apparently not one that some care to overcome.
To: old school
Bump
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02/02/2003 1:03:39 PM PST by
A2J
(If all else fails, blame it on someone else.)
To: old school
He still identifies himself as a hyphenated-american
uh, where?
This is what I read:
The black community
we black folks
for a black person
I am an American
I, a black man,
Like other Americans, I
as a black American, I
The only mention of African-Americans is the title. I can't say if that's his title, or one given by the paper.
I don't think it's sour grapes, looks like realism to me. Expecting immigrants to obey housing codes and learn English doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
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