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This is hard to believe!
Published Sunday, April 1, 2007
Bilingual Education Should Be Dropped in U.S., Gingrich Says

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with "the language of living in a ghetto" and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages.

"The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," Gingrich said to the crowd of more than 100.

Published Saturday, April 7, 2007
Gingrich Apologizes in Spanish on YouTube

By Jose Antonio Vargas
The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Wednesday, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who's mulling a White House run, apologized in a YouTube video for his recent remarks equating bilingual education with "the language of living in a ghetto."

The apology was delivered in English and Spanish, with the three-minute Spanish video, "Mensaje de Newt Gingrich," subtitled in English. Can't get any more bilingual than that.

In an interview Thursday, the Georgia Republican called his choice of words "clumsy."

"Look, people are misunderstanding what I'm saying," Gingrich said. "What I was simply saying is that a language barrier - any language barrier, whether you speak Hindi, Chinese, Vietnamese - hampers a person's ability to communicate in the language of prosperity."

Last Saturday, Gingrich struck a similar chord. In a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women, he said Americans "believe English should be the official language of the government." In the past, he's frequently called for the end of bilingual education in schools, and in 1995, a year after taking the House speakership, he said that bilingualism poses "long-term dangers to the fabric of our nation."

"We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English," he told the women's group last weekend, "so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."

The remarks drew a barrage of comments from the Latino community, and were quickly repudiated on popular Web sites such as Latin Americanist, Latino Pundit and Vivir Latino - U.S. Latino life in blog form. A headline on Vivir Latino read "Newt - Not Ghetto Fabulous," with Maegan Ortiz, the site's New York-based editor, writing: "Don't you love how politicos use Spanish when it works for them and when it doesn't, they trash it?" Similarly, Hispanic organizations such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund were incredulous, calling Gingrich's comments "hateful."

"There is a clear understanding among Latino citizens and Latino immigrants that you must learn English to get good jobs, to fully participate in this society. There is no resistance to that fact," said Peter Zamora, a credentialed bilingual education teacher who is the co-chairman of the Washington-based Hispanic Education Coalition, which supports bilingual education.

As of Friday night, Gingrich's YouTube apology, the Spanish version, had been watched by more than 63,000 times on the video-sharing site.

Local newspaper April 2007
IN HISPANIC NEWS
Top advertisers in Latino newspapers, by speding on advertising, 2005.
Sprint Nextel $5.2 million
AT&T $4.5 mil.
Verizon $3.5 mil.
Univision $3.4 mil.
Sears $3.3 mil.
SOURCE: Advertising Age: research by pat Carr

might be nice to have a constructive debate......

DEBATE THIS ~ You Posted This 2 Me

Posted March 01, 2007 12:25 PM
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My Reply is that .....wow you must be a very
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CHESS GAME OVER I WIN YOU LOSE !!
Im sure your used to it by now !!

Now don't Be a Sore Loser and a bad slave owner !!

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would love to hear the comments on this...... its one of those i found in another forum...would love to know if it is correct or not.... might be nice to have a constructive debate......


There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special
ballots for elections, all government business will be conducted in
our language.
Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are
here.

Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.

Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food
stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs.

Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount equal
to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.

If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay, BUT
options will be restricted. You are not allowed waterfront property.
That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.

Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations, no waving a foreign
flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his
policies, if you do you will be sent home.

If you do come to this country illegally, you will be hunted down and
sent straight to jail.

Harsh, you say?.................

The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of " MEXICO " !

Hello ntfd3. The laws of the United states of America made this country the greatest country on this planet. If you copy the laws of Mexico. Well we all see where the citizens of Mexico are ending up. Now, some of Americans ( Whites ) hate foreigners not because they are being petriotic but racist because most of the new arrivals are not from the Anglo race like them. Immigrants who wish to come to the US and be legal give everything they have including their origin to be part of this democracy. 1 the have to pass the English and Civil test 2 the have to be outstanding citizens ( no felonies or traffic violations) 3 they have to prove that they are not going to be on welfare. This great country was founded by immigrants and Immigrants who made this country great.

God Bless America