“Soy George W. Bush y aprobé este mensaje.”
Speaking in Spanish. The President was for it before he was against it. From last week’s press conference :
Q Mr. President, a cultural question for you. There is a version of the National Anthem in Spanish now. Do you believe it will hold the same value if sung in Spanish as in English?THE PRESIDENT: No I don’t, because I think the National Anthem ought to be sung in English. And I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English, and they ought to learn to sing the National Anthem in English.
Oh really?? Is that why you’ve spent so much money on Spanish-language advertising like this?
Apparently George Bush has decided that this year it’s more important to kiss xenophobic, conservative asses than hard-working, Latino asses.
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-George W. Bush, at a Miami election rally for Hispanic voters, August 2000
Comment by August J. Pollak — May 2, 2006 @ 11:43 am
One of the reasons I recently moved (as mentioned in another comment I made here a few weeks ago along with crime, noise pollution, jobs, etc etc), was that my sons’ school recently made Spanish a required class for all kids, whether they want it or not. Interestingly, the Hispanic kids in their own Spanish-speaking classroom are not required to take English.
You don’t have to be conservative to not like having another culture forced onto you in your own country.
Hard-working? I guess. It takes a lot of effort to carry a leaf blower, or sit on a riding lawn-mower, or flip burgers at McDonalds. But it’s true, those are jobs Americans would not be willing to do at the wages they get paid.
Comment by Jason — May 2, 2006 @ 12:55 pm
It’s even worse than that- at one of the 2001 inauguration parties, Jon Secada sang the national anthem in Spanish. Since those parties were very scripted, we can assume this was at the request of someone on Bush’s team.
Comment by SP — May 2, 2006 @ 5:36 pm
Jason,
You don’t have to be conservative to not like having another culture forced onto you in your own country, but you have to be a cowardly racist fuck to move away from a neighborhood because they want to teach your kid Spanish, and to say all Mexican-Americans do is “to carry a leaf blower, or sit on a riding lawn-mower, or flip burgers at McDonalds.” I guess you’ve never heard of sweatshops or day-laborers? Illegal immigrants often are forced or conned into doing dangerous, backbreaking, and degrading labor, and the three Mexican Americans you saw once riding mowers recently do not constitute the majority of the workforce (nor were they illegals, probably).
As for having their culture “forced on you,” can’t you just skip that station on your radio and play what you want to hear? You sound so oppressed, but no one’s stopping you from enjoying whatever culture you want. Do you hate gays too for having their own bars?
Anyway, if you actually observe second-generation immigrants of any ethnicity, they’re more likely to be listening to the Cure and Rancid and get mohawks or whatever “normal” American kids are doing. It’s not like immigrants now are going to make the whole country listen to Piolin and get mexi-mullets. You’re being an alarmist for no reason.
To sum up, Mexican food is awesome, salsa dancing is better than square dancing, and by the way, fuck you.
Comment by dAnimal — May 3, 2006 @ 4:25 pm