"ENGLISH-ONLY" SUPPORTERS HOLD CONFERENCE, BUT THESE DUMB A**** CAN'T EVEN SPELL "CONFERENCE"
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Posted By: Siebra Muhammad on June 28, 2009 From ThinkProgress.org June 28, 2009 On Saturday, Pat Buchanan hosted a conference to discuss how Republicans can regain a majority in America . During one discussion, panelists suggested supporting English-only initiatives as a prime way of attracting "working class white Democrats." The discussion ridiculed Judge Sotomayor for the fact that she studied children’s classics to improve her grammar while attending college. The panelists also suggested that, without English as the official language, President Obama would force Americans to speak Spanish. One salient feature of the event was the banner hanging over the English-only advocates. The word conference was spelled “Conferenece.” The panelists pressed on with their anti-bilingualism diatribe without noting the irony of the obvious misspelling on the banner: PAT BUCHANAN: Judge Sotomayor is up there at school in New York , she gets a scholarship to Princeton , she’s graduated with all these big honors and awards they said she never won. What’s she doing there in the summer? They said her adviser told her to read children’s classics so she can learn English better. How do you graduate number one in Princeton if you're in the summer and you're reading Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White? [laughter] [...] PETER BRIMELOW: I really do recommend the language issue because you know that polls better than immigration and affirmative action. Eighty-five percent of Americans say they would favor official language policy. The wonderful thing about this issue if you look at what’s going to actually happen here is you're going to find that the Obama administration is going to gradually institute institutional bilingualism in the country. It’s going to be required to speak Spanish in key positions, the police force and so on. This is a direct attack on the American working class because they are not going to be bilingual. ThinkProgress attended the event and obtained audio of the panel. Listen here: Mocking Sotomayor’s struggle to learn English has become a habit for Buchanan. On CSPAN a few weeks ago, Buchanan tried to undermine Sotomayor’s qualifications by saying she had read Pinocchio as a part of her “college work.” Buchanan was referencing a New York Times article, which talked about how hard Sotomayor had to work to graduate at the top of her class from Princeton . The article stated that she “spent summers reading children’s classics she had missed in a Spanish-speaking home and ‘re-teaching’ herself to write ‘proper English’ by reading elementary grammar books.” Sotomayor never read children’s books as part of her “college work” and the books consisted of classics such as Huckleberry Finn and Pride and Prejudice -- not Snow White, as Buchanan contends. If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Siebra Muhammad
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If these political jackasses are persuasive enough, this country will be the laughing stock of the world. Dumb them down enough and this country will be nothing more than slaves to the whims of those that can READ. The ability to communicate with people that speak more than one language enhances understanding of other peoples. For example, Negro means black in Spanish. The slave owners did not understand the Spanish Language and used it in a derogatory sense when, in fact, the appellation was was descriptive of the slave skin color!!!. 'Governor' Jindal of Louisiana and his cohorts are dumbing down the students in this state by 'conferring' a "Career Diploma" (two-thirds of these public school "students" cannot read well enough to pass the state required standardized tests). Today Louisiana ranks as one of the educationally poorest states in America. Sunday, June 28th 2009 at 4:38PM |
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I agree with you on some level, a wise man once instilled in me that, "Man makes Man", In high school-old school, we were not affirmative action children but the superior student, so we then had all the maths, sciences, languages to excel.... BIA childrens education highlites in 2009---in the home and school---- rapping, hippityhopping, F in putting on your pants boys; and girls that love them; tatoos, earrings for all, these students and their one parent families cannot understand a modern world where, Man makes Man: and The exordia Our Leader President Baraka Hussein Obama evinces with CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN. Thursday, July 2nd 2009 at 10:33AM |
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Robert, even though I don't always agree with what you say most of the time, I have to admit that you have a point there. Not only did some neo-con knucklehead misspell a rather common English word, they hired a printer/signmaker who is so remarkably unprofessional that not only can he or she not spell, but cannot proofread or even turn on their spellcheck. Absolutely hilarious from so many angles. Perhaps the GOP ought to hire Mr. George Dubya as their new "proofreaderer" (This typo is intentional LOL). I hear he is currently unemployed and looking for work... Thursday, July 2nd 2009 at 10:47AM |
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