Video: Republican tells La Raza, “It is important that we emphasize the Spanish language”
posted at 10:18 am on August 14, 2007 by Allahpundit
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It’s Lincoln Diaz-Balart addressing La Raza’s annual conference last month. Skip ahead to 5:00. I mentioned it at the time but it’s always worth flagging panders to the NCLR. You never know when they might prove useful later.
Meanwhile, Kaus is back on the immigration beat and speculating that Bush’s new border crackdown is actually a nefarious plot to prove how cruel and intolerable crackdowns are, thereby increasing support for open borders. The large flaw in that theory: It presumes Bush and Chertoff are competent enough to manage iron-fist border enforcement in the first place. Are they? Nope.
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Well, he better be prepared to be shocked when his approval rating shoots up 20 points as a result.
TheBigOldDog on August 14, 2007 at 10:27 AM
Que?
MadisonConservative on August 14, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Legal Hispanics – Yes
Spanish Language – No
I had to suffer Walmart yesterday, and they have all their new signs in both languages. Meanwhile, a woman is telling me something in Spanish as she tries to force her cart by me.
The Third World remake of the USA. Walmart and Spanish.
Hening on August 14, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Do you remember in Alien Resurrection how the andriod (Winona Ryder) said all of the andriods burned their modems? I feel the same way about speaking Spanish here in America. My wife, who is from Mexico, doesn’t like that I feel this way, but I’m an AMERICAN, born and bred here.
I’ve never heard of a candidate pushing Chinese, Vietnamese, or the other countless languages spoken in this country. I’ve known Mexicans who’ve come to the States for vacation who get offended if someone speaks to them in Spanish? Why? Because they feel it’s not appropriate to speak another language in this great nation.
Enough with the pandering. Enough with the “comprehensive” garbage. Enough with politicians who are looking out for people for people who aren’t even citizens.
Enough!
madmonkphotog on August 14, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Why are Hispanics so xenophobic?
Typically, one of the first accusations made by Hispanic rights advocates is that Americans are xenophobic.
Obviously a nationwide reaction strong enough to stop a stubborn Congress cold doesn’t speak to fear among the citizenry much. Outrage or righteous indignation maybe, fear? No.
Rights groups have tried to make assimilation into a dirty word and we have lobbying and massive amounts of video to prove of how much Hispanics feel threatened by any effort to encourage the least bit of adjusting to life here. Our national anthem was morphed into a stylized Spanish version, talk about being afraid of anything new.
When in Rome do as the Romans do and when in the USA do as we do, only sensible really since we are the greatest Nation in history and who in their right mind would want to change that?
So what’s to be afraid of anyway? Our American culture? Traditions? Opportunities? Freedoms? How much does it really take to fit in?
Some desire maybe?
For two hundred and thirty one years, virtually every nationality has accepted the USA as a wonderful opportunity to join us and succeed; Modern day Hispanics can also, no differently than all the rest. Bring your love and pride for the US with you, it’s a requirement.
Come on, don’t be so…xenophobic.
Speakup on August 14, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Yes of course! After all – international trade, banking, airline control, coding, etc.. are all done is Spanish right?
CrazyFool on August 14, 2007 at 10:41 AM
I want to build an underground shelter.
Connie on August 14, 2007 at 10:45 AM
I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that they can get away with having a ‘group’ called La Raza…. that is so efed up.
Tru2my2 on August 14, 2007 at 10:47 AM
Just what we want, The Balkan States of America.
Press 2 for Oblivion.
profitsbeard on August 14, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Ay fricken caramba.
PatrickS on August 14, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Three words.
Tower
Of
Babel.
That’s all.
crazy_legs on August 14, 2007 at 11:10 AM
No ablo Espanol and I like it that way. Please speak to me in either English or Chinese
400lb Gorilla on August 14, 2007 at 11:11 AM
I’ve got a shovel, some tools, and a car with a full tank of gas. Just tell me where I need to go to volunteer.
Seriously, I think it’s a brilliant idea. We racists could probably get this fence built ourselves long before any committee in D.C. could get it approved. I could take a couple days off…
Numenorean on August 14, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Brush up on your Spanish, boys & girls. Be ready for the one line at banks & DMVs that says ‘This Line – English Only.’ Also, get ready for higher property & sales taxes to pay for the education & medical for the ‘undocumented Americans’, as goof ball Reid calls them. By next generation our wonderful, beautiful nation will be just another third world country under sharia law run by mexicans. Look at Mexico is like, that’s what’s ahead for the U.S. We’ll have our ‘representative’ government to thank for the transformation.
countywolf on August 14, 2007 at 11:12 AM
If Stormfront can be castigated, La Raza can be also.
Just what we all want, to be just like Latin America.
Speakup on August 14, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Longhorn Six on August 14, 2007 at 11:13 AM
I understand we have quite a few newly undocumented immigrants looking for work.
Lawrence on August 14, 2007 at 11:14 AM
One of these days I’ll get the hang of all these “tags.”
Longhorn Six on August 14, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Translation:
“Please vote for me, I’m begging you.”
Lawrence on August 14, 2007 at 11:16 AM
La Raza doesn’t represent all or most Hispanics any more than any gathering of moonbats represents all Americans.
I’m not sure this was such a bad thing to say. He wasn’t–at least here–calling for goverment workers to be required to speak Spanish or anything. Personally, I wish my family had spoken a little Spanish to me instead of acting like typical immigrants and only speaking English.
It could be interpreted in different ways. The fact that he was cozying up to La Raza doesn’t sit well with me, though.
MamaAJ on August 14, 2007 at 11:17 AM
I’m fairly convinced they are on this enforcement kick to show how awful it is on the poor illegals. They don’t want to truly be effective just get the media running stories on the new hardships that illegals face.
bj1126 on August 14, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart has just been entered into the Guiness Book of World Records as the world’s worst idiot.
My story posted here earlier:
In talking to one of my customers (husband and wife)awhile ago who are legal immigrants from Mexico, I commented on their fluent English.
They then proceeded to inform me that the best education in Mexico is received from private schools where everything is taught in English from kindergarten up.
They continued with (with teary eyes) in describing how proud they were of there son who had received a full college scholarship from the U.S.A. because of his musical skills and top-of-his class merits.
However they still hated Bush….wait,.. wait just a effing minute.. I thought Bush was the Mexicans friend!!!!
So therefore ladies and gentlemen, I am entering the hypocritical (La Rasa type Hispanics) into the Guiness Book of World Records for the worst Hypocrites.
Again, reflecting on my encounter I cannot think of any hypocrisy worse than this bovine scatology that La Rasa peddles.
On a similiar vein…
I would love to see a story on how the Hurricane Katrina victims are now doing the jobs that Hispanics
wouldn’tcouldn’t do because they don’t speak sufficient English.I’ve seen this first hand since when FIMA stopped crediting their dedit cards about a year ago.
Mcguyver on August 14, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Oops, I mispoke and clarification statement issued in 3…2…1…
Mazztek on August 14, 2007 at 11:26 AM
If you like the bifracted America we live in today then you’ll love the balkinized America we’re headed for.
A united USA cannot find her limits, a divided America, dies.
Speakup on August 14, 2007 at 11:27 AM
The U.S. Border Patrol’s web site reminds us:
“The function of the United States Border Patrol has been an essential element of our country’s security since before our Constitution was even written. On July 4th, 1776 our Founding Fathers declared our country independent from England. It is this act that we celebrate on July 4th of every year. The twentyseventh reason for our separation from England — as listed in our Declaration of Independence — is the King’s refusal to provide the people of America with a secure border.”
King George. Hmmm.
Numenorean on August 14, 2007 at 11:31 AM
Sorry — forgot to link.
Numenorean on August 14, 2007 at 11:32 AM
I’m not sure if it’s the bigotry of the National Council of the Racists that bugs me more or the complete lack of knowledge of Economics of our officials who pander to them.
A massive increase of low/unskilled puts tremendous downward pressure on the wages of the lower class. Those wages stagnate and the demand for big government social programs goes way up.
trubble on August 14, 2007 at 11:32 AM
I think white people are going to start to leave.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 11:34 AM
That’s good. He like the dems who went to the Kos affair. Afraid to pass up one vote, but will lose 2.
right2bright on August 14, 2007 at 11:46 AM
I am one latino in his district who will NOT be voting for him next time.
rightg33k on August 14, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Separate but equal!! Where have I heard that before?
DfDeportation on August 14, 2007 at 11:48 AM
**With my cold dead hands!!!
Mcguyver on August 14, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Just how many Latinos do you think will vote with you?
Mcguyver on August 14, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Whether we do or not, we’re going to be a demographic minority in our own country in about 20 years. Judging by how well California’s handled that, I can guarantee it’s not going to be good for the country.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 11:54 AM
The whole world wants to learn Enlish, why not the Mexican’s. Our politicans would rather pander to a potential voter block then to face reality. The world speaks English but not those wanting to become Americans. Truly despicable.
riccangolf on August 14, 2007 at 11:57 AM
The reality is with 80% of Americans disapproving of illegal immigrants, this bass akwards way of building our country is not going to follow the likes CA.
Mcguyver on August 14, 2007 at 12:02 PM
You did read my post above, didn’t you?
“the best education in Mexico is received from private schools where everything is taught in English from kindergarten up”.
Mcguyver on August 14, 2007 at 12:04 PM
Fair enough, but it would have been different had he emphasized learning English while retaining your Spanish.
The way he says it makes it sound more like the Spanish is more important than the English when living in American, and I believe that is completely messed up. Though as long as we keep from saying English is our official language it only makes sense that other languages can be emphasized over English.
Esthier on August 14, 2007 at 12:08 PM
I don’t think it matters what we want anymore. English is probably on its way out in the U.S., unless we partition the country into English and Spanish speakers (which also looks likely).
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Ay chingala!
mojo on August 14, 2007 at 12:22 PM
So long as business is conducted in English, I see no reason why we’d ever abandon the language. I do though see a reason why we’d start pandering to ever other language, offering translations of everything everywhere, even though becoming a citizen requires a knowledge of English.
Esthier on August 14, 2007 at 12:25 PM
The most useful phrase in Spanish:
Una cerveza, por favor.
Bigfoot on August 14, 2007 at 12:31 PM
Whatever happens, this is a historically unusual occurrence: a southern people conquering a northern one.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 12:39 PM
la raza = the race? la raza = kkk!!! Where is the outrage from the naacp? This is AMERICA speak English!! I have wall building tools, where do I sign up? I will never speak spanish!!
ChrisIansNana on August 14, 2007 at 1:04 PM
This is one more reason why I no longer consider myself to be a conservative Republican. I’m a conservative period. And I’ll be voting for conservative candidates regardless of their ” tag “.
BowHuntingTexas on August 14, 2007 at 1:05 PM
La Raza is the same racist organization that Miss Lindsey Graham adressed several months ago when Miss Lindsey Graham said “We are goign to tell the bigots to shut up” – referring to the Shamnesty Bill.
Hilts on August 14, 2007 at 1:06 PM
Perhaps there should be a Eurasian-American lobby – the group that gets no representation, but pays all of the taxes.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 1:11 PM
and the second most useful phrase: Una mas cerveza, por favor.
pullingmyhairout on August 14, 2007 at 1:18 PM
Diaz-Balart seems to have forgotten his oath of office. If he is incapable of upholding and defending the Constitution form all enemies, foreign and domestic, he should resign, expelled by Congress, or removed from office by the voters.
georgej on August 14, 2007 at 1:27 PM
PRCalDude:
It’s not over yet.
Merovign on August 14, 2007 at 1:30 PM
(that was re: 12:39 post, BTW)
Merovign on August 14, 2007 at 1:31 PM
It’s a demographic fait accompli. Their kids just haven’t grown up yet.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Many years ago my father told me that this country would become balkanized and in my lifetime. His prediction doesn’t seem all that farfetched to me now. Could we even see states threaten to secede? Could that be a possibility?
We’d have little enclaves like Hazelton, PA.
dbdiva on August 14, 2007 at 1:49 PM
THE most useful spanish phrase under certain circumstances:
“Por favor, Capitan! No mas!”
mojo on August 14, 2007 at 2:00 PM
I dunno. The Mexican government is great at keeping their population in ignorance of their history, except for one fact: the American southwest used to be a part of Mexico. The real question is, will they just take that or the entire country? Whites are already a minority in 1 in 10 major cities in the U.S. I think your father was right.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 2:04 PM
Rome was an anomaly.
jaime on August 14, 2007 at 3:21 PM
My sister-in-law in CA never taught her children to speak Spanish. She is so terribly proud to be American. Her heritage is Apache and Spaniard – from Spain. She cannot communicate with most of the Mexicans she comes in contact with as few of them know any Indian dialects of the United States much less Apache, and even less know Castilian Spanish.
IMHO, La Raza is a racist organization. If the Mexicans were smart they would shun it just like others shun the KKK. I fear what lies ahead for this great country and wish we could prosecute those that have turned it into a ghetto from coast to coast. Liberals banty around the term “quagmire” when speaking of Iraq or Afghanistan, yet I see the situation here is the same. Law enforcement officers are targets, gun battles in our cities nightly, diseases that has been unknown for decades, schools with metal detectors, no-go zones in areas that were formally old but safe neightborhoods, rampant drug use, out of contol welfare….that cheap head of lettuce isn’t so cheap is it?
24K lady on August 14, 2007 at 4:54 PM
It’s not just Mexico I live in Fontana PRC and I call it Central America,Nicuraugua,Costa Rica, El salvador……..
Bob
Bobnormal on August 14, 2007 at 5:27 PM
So what of my ‘Eurasian-American’ lobby idea? It’s time has come, hasn’t it? I mean, with my rose colored glasses I imagine an America where all ethnicities blend together and eventually become a race themselves. But only whites and some Asians buy into this idea. And lobbyists are the only thing politicians respond to. I mean, if the National Council of La Raza had veto power on the latest shamnesty bill, shouldn’t people of European and East Asian descent who pay most of the bills have a say also?
I’ve often wondered, “What could possibly be going through our politicians’ heads allowing all these criminals in?” Then it occurred to me, they want the criminal element in here. It keeps the population fractured, terrified and dependent on the government, at least until it collapses. A century ago, even 50 years ago, the population might have risen up and dispensed with these gangsters in short order. But nowadays, we’re simply told that nothing can be done about it and to live with it. This country can’t solve a simple problem like policing its own borders – the country that invented modern aviation, nuclear weapons, space flight, the ICBM, the transistor, the integrated circuit? Seems hard to believe. If money were the only issue motivating this, then why didn’t the business lobby spend half as much time trying to get corporate taxes reduced or worker’s comp reformed? No. I think control is the underlying motive here.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 5:40 PM
Bobnormal – You are absolutely right. The language differences amongst illegals is getting worse as well. If one could quit crying long enough to think about it, it’d be funny. The burden on our schools, teachers, medical facilities, courts, and state and county offices is horrendous. They keep hiring spanish language speakers only to find they need another dialect or another 3rd world obscure language employee daily. Where does it end?
24K lady on August 14, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Maybe they’ll hire native Nuahtl speakers next.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 5:55 PM
Mexico functions at about the level of Jim Crow America. There is rampant racism and the classism is even more despicable. If you have never visited the interior or ventured beyond Tijuana, you would likely not believe the squalor and poverty that pervades much of this resource-rich nation.
Socially, there is still an unwritten caste system, with indigenous tribes at the bottom, just above Mexicans of African descent.
We are importing a group of people who are largely uneducated and have proved very unwilling to assimilate. Despite the propaganda put forth by illegal immigrant activists, many children of illegal aliens do not learn English. Many immigrant communities are downright hostile to the concept of assimilation.
We are reaching a critical mass of people who don’t care about this country and in many cases, wish us harm.
Believe this. You have not even begun to feel the impact of Latino gangs. We all hear about Mara Salvatrucha. But that is just one small group in a rising tide of violent, anti-American degenerates.
One day, I was walking to my car after visiting a friend in a not-so-safe area in LA. An MS gangster walks out onto his balcony, holding 9mm Glock. I notice him pointing his pistol at me just as I look up. He seems surprised to see me look at him…not scared, just caught off gaurd. So he swings wildly and points the gun at a US Marshall who is standing outside of his marked car. This kid actually looks at me, laughs then fires at the marshall, then runs back into his own apt unit…literally laughing.
I left my name with the marshall, after coming out from behind my car. And I was out of there. My friend told me that the entire block is run by MS. And he has not seen a cop on his street since moving in. Keep in mind this is near a major university in Southern California.
Furthermore, many young Muslims from the Middle East are adopting a hip-hop and/or typically latino fashion sense. It might seem unimportant. But these subtle details will make a big difference when we are trying to identify the enemies within.
Perhaps I have a bone to pick. But as much as I genuinely enjoy the beautiful aspects of Mexican culture, I think we need to close the spigot until we regain some sense of sovereignty.
I do not recommend panic. Rather I urge pragmatic preparation for the worst.
Rant out.
The Race Card on August 14, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Please email me.
PRCalDude on August 14, 2007 at 5:58 PM
Bingo! Now you know why the won’t manage the border – especially when you remember that big government means more control and centralized power in the hands of the state. They want more power.
Herikutsu on August 14, 2007 at 11:31 PM
It’s all because Bush never had a son.
He therefore doesn’t care about the country’s future.
Being thus detached from the meaning of his catastrophic failure to defend the integrity of the nation’s borders, because he has no intimate personal stake in it.
The girls can marry nice Australian guys and get the hell out before the chaotic demographic collapse which he and his cadre of indifferent elitists have brought upon us.
Barney (”the son I never had“) will be long gone by then.
(And I’m only half joking. Maybe 25%.)
profitsbeard on August 15, 2007 at 12:47 AM
It is obvious that we can easily control our borders. Sadly we have delegated the right to control our borders to people who have no intention of doing so. It is painfully obvious.
What are their motives? Many motives are served by the same act of keeping the borders open, keeping the illegal flood going, making sure we fracture our uniform ‘American’ identity, making sure Western culture is removed as the base culture of this land. I say ‘this land’ because the primary motive is to redefine ‘this nation’ as merely a geographical land mass, a set of latitudes and longitudes in relation to the unified world of commerce. To remove the identity of this land, we must erase the national identity and replace it with: nothing.
The Mexican replacement motif is simple a dilution of the obnoxious free will gun toting God serving eagle loving flag waving border patrolling hillbillies once called ‘Americans’ who still believe they own this nation.
Nationalists, now called derisively ‘nativist’ Americans are getting in the way of the program. That is why three leaders got together and without a treaty, made arrangements to meld Canada, America, and Mexico called the SPP. Businessmen and globalists applaud, the Senate sighs in relief at having passed the buck, but the ‘nativists’ scream.
Like gnats, the nativists interfere and must be diluted, their voices drowned out by mariachis, their dollar power drained by worker replacement, and outsourcing, their traditions diminished by the globalist drumbeat of the MSM, the teaching cadres, and various decadent subgroups longing to spread their wings free of the Western value systems.
So many groups tangling with the same troublemaker. Makes me think of Hitler’s ‘final solution’. Hitler traced almost every problem to the Jews. The final solution: eliminate Jews. Pure genius. The allies in today’s global conquest army have found the source of all their problems – the hillbilly nativist gnats called patriots. The solution: destroy, disable, or dilute these gnats
Signed,
A. Gnat,
Member, The Sons of Liberty
entagor on August 15, 2007 at 3:14 AM
I have absolutely no problem with those who have roots in different nationalities passing down their heritage INCLUDING language. HOWEVER, as long as assimilation in OUR NATIONAL CULTURE occurs.
I can very well assure you that in the formerly French speaking part of Louisiana (in the South Central part of the state which does not include New Orleans) there are no greater patriots throughout our great land with numerous centers of patriotism of THE AMERICAN WAY, than those who are only one or two generations removed from French being the spoken language BUT NEVER THE LEGAL LANGUAGE in any way shape or form, since becoming part of the U.S.
The funny thing about the formerly French speaking part of Louisiana is that it was overwelmingly populated by German immigrants who learned French because it was the legal and spoken language when they arrived in the former French Colony in the 1700’s.
Kermit on August 15, 2007 at 8:43 AM
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