At a high school in southern Wisconsin, residents were appalled at the Pledge of Allegiance being sung…in Spanish. The article,which can be found here-http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc042108b, explains how the Superintendent of a school is being threatened and confronted about allowing his students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish…one day a year.
Once again, another beautiful play on Americans, which allows the world to bask in our ever-ending glory of freedom.
Why, in a country deemed free, do people care what language you speak? We are a melting pot. It is futile to attempt silencing the language of everyone around you. I speak Spanish. My friends speak Indian. Some of our friends speak English and Indian. We all live in this free country.
I get enough of this in Miami, with all those ‘truly American’ people clawing at my throat with the intent to tear out my vocal cords. Is there no peace in the liberal land?
You know, it’s not that these people are coming together for a cause, it’s that they’re coming together to destroy a completely legal activity. In the first amendment, Americans have the right to say the Pledge of Allegiance in any language they want. What matters most is that they’re saying it. This first amendment allows us the freedom to have a universal patriotism to the country we love the most, and yet, we are in peril of being silenced by those very Americans.
In a quote from the article, an upset veteran comments:
“This is America; we speak English,” said Dix, who retired from the National Guard last year. “I don’t want any of my three boys coming home saying, ‘Dad, we did the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.’ ”
Well,do I have some news for you, Mr.Dix. If you haven’t noticed, bilingualism is encouraged in our country and the world. It gets you places. Like good jobs, so you don’t end having to go to the military. (However, the military is a fine job and I do consider joining). The fact of the matter is, when your English-only children grow up, they’ll be beaten to the punch at an executive job by Gregorio Ruiz, whose parents let him speak as many languages as his heart desired. So all in all, YOUR RACISM IS GOING TO BITE YOU IN THE BUTT. And all at the cost of your children. Good game,Mr.Dix, good game.
And in another quote, our poisoned younger generation speaks:
One said: “I go to Edgerton High School and I don’t appreciate Mexicans saying the Pledge in Spanish. . . . If you think Mexicans can waltz right in this school and have an influence on these American students, then you’re wrong. This is America, home of the free and not the illegal.”
Oh, that was just so funny. I’m going to assume that only people that speak Spanish are Mexicans. I guess the Spaniards and the Argentinians dropped out of the race and paid attention to Mr.Dix there. By the way, if this country is the home of the free, then the illegal who step here are pretty free too. It’s a fairly easy concept. What beef have you against Mexicans anyway? Do you know the good they do in our society? Have you had an economics class? Read about immigration? This, my friends, is a classic example of American youth, which will be expressed in an upcoming blog.
In the end, we are all human beings with the same color blood running through our veins. We are all human beings put on this earth to live out our lives. We are all human beings with the same sugar-phosphate backbone in our DNA. We are all human.
3 Comments
April 27, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Nice job. I enjoy the vocal cords part. Awesome writing by the way, i only saw like two mistakes but trust me that was so awesome i could care less about the mistake lol
I agree with you, why should people be punished for singing in spanish once in an entire year…Some people are a little naive when they go against something that make another person awesome lol.
April 27, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Your argument is fine, although I have a problem with your melting pot analogy.
America has been called a “melting pot” because separate cultures mix and become indistinguishably American. Not Chinese, or Indian, or Hispanic. American. That’s the logic behind a single language; we band together here as a country, not as a conglomeration of individual entities.
I understand the desire to maintain an individualist perspective; I am an individualist who loves the things that make me unique. However I also would argue that creating small bands of groups CREATES divisiveness, rather than alleviates it. Diversity is certainly something we want; but how can I gain from diversity if the Chinese all speak Chinese, the Hispanics Spanish, and the Indians Indian? I want to join your group and learn from you; if you speak in Spanish I cannot gain from diversity. I am automatically alienated.
What you’re promoting is a “mixed salad,” rather than a “melting pot.” And it’s not really what the Founders had in mind.
(PS I am bilingual as well – in Russian)
April 28, 2008 at 12:16 am
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