HispanicVista Columnists
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Raoul Lowery Contrera
English is Prosperity, Period!
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
Politico.com covers politics like few other publications do or ever
have. Unfortunately for the intelligent reader Politico s staffed by
partisan hacks more interested in attacking Republicans than presenting the
political state of affairs for all to understand.
Politico led the
attack on Herman Cain that has destroyed his candidacy though he had no
chance to win the nomination. Granted that Cain was so inept no intelligent
voter could ever vote for this rank amateur who couldn’t hand
anonymous-sourced attacks with ten days notice.
He stupidly and
ignorantly waived the opportunity to rightly/forcefully defend himself. He
could have by pointing out these money-sucking women – white women -- always
get away with charging a man like Cain (or Supreme Court Associate Justice
Clarence Thomas for that matter) with unspecified sexual molestation charges
that carry weight only because the target is a black man, a Negro. We all
know they are oversexed sexual predators of defenseless white women, don’t
we?
Enough of Herman Cain and Politico, it has turned its ire and
guns on Newt Gingrich who as decimated the long series of debates by
intellect and representation that no other candidate has accomplished other
than Mitt Romney. Romney is a close second to Gingrich in debate
accomplishment.
The result of Gingrich’s Tortoise v. Hare strategy
is some success; he is rising in the polls, the same polls that placed him
in low single digits a few months ago.
So now Politico dips into its
anonymous source bag and comes up with a video showing Gingrich making a
statement that only a tattooed, pants below-the-ass jailbird father of
illegitimate children who dropped out of school could possibly object to;
here’s how Politico presented this nothing story by Jonathan Martin:
With Newt Gingrich emerging as serious contender, some Republicans are
questioning his fitness for a general election campaign by seizing on
comments the former speaker made in 2007 about Hispanics…
Making the
case against bi-lingual education at a National Federation of Republican
Women event, Gingrich said children should be taught "the language of
prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."
"It is
indicative of Gingrich's propensity to say crazy things off the cuff," said
an (anonymous) adviser to one of the former speaker's presidential rivals.
"He hasn't had the spotlight on him up until recently, and I think it's only
a matter of time before he says something that's inexcusable, nutty, or
insulting."
Here is what is insulting about this Politico tirade
using an anonymous source – its stupid and ignorant to think any intelligent
American Hispanic would object to Gingrich’s statement.
Are there
very many successful American Hispanics who do not speak the language of
"prosperity" (English) well? I don’t think so. Certainly the tattooed school
drop out punks in the barrio or ghetto don’t speak it well. Neither do young
blacks who have been raised on "ebonics."
"Wazzzup?" doesn’t make it
nor do "SA" or "simon."
Who gets the job, the young black man with
cornrows that opens his job interview with "Wazzzup?" Or does the polite,
young, Mexican American man fresh from the military with a neat haircut,
shirt and tie and English that can be tested? Guess which one gets the job…
English is the language of prosperity in the
Gingrich is right. Politico and its anonymous sources are wrong.
To
be clear, let me state it in precise English, the language of prosperity:
Anyone, anyone who objects to the Gingrich statement that every ghetto kid,
white, black or Hispanic should be taught to speak and write the "language
of prosperity." Of course to truly prosper, one needs to speak and write
Spanish as well, but first, English.
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