Sunday, April 22, 2012

Different is not Bad

I have been seeing and hearing a lot of 'Speak English or get the hell out of my country" sentiments lately and I would like to comment on that. 

I would like to remind everyone that this land we live on was not yours to begin with.  Remember that whole slaughter thing we started?  'Whites' were the original immigrants and not all them spoke English either.  (Polish, Czech, Russian, French, etc.)   While immigration reform is certainly a political issue and rightly so, it is also a human issue and that's what I'll be focusing on here.  "Go back to the shit hole country you came from" is something you are not just posting on a website, it is something you are saying about a PERSON.  PEOPLE speak Spanish and other languages.  PEOPLE take the jobs you won't take.  ASSUMING that just because someone speaks another language they are here illegally is just ignorant.  My advice to anyone who uses this kind of rhetoric or language is get it together and stop being such a bigot!  How can we ever unite as a country and deal with the real issues (income inequality, corporate/political corruption, the military/prison industrial complexes, etc.) if we are constantly being divided?  We are all PEOPLE and we have more power as a whole than we ever will apart. 

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