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Originally Posted by 5.56X45mm From Obama Rama Ding Dong: Understand this. Instead of worrying about whether, uh, immigrants can learn English. They’ll learn English. You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish! You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual. We should have every child speaking more than one language.
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So what this quote says is that: Immigrants will learn english - check.
Children should be bilingual - check
I'm not seeing the issue. He is saying that immigrants will learn english. Thats great, I totally agree. He is then saying that children should be bilingual. I also completely agree with this. Studies have show that students that learn another language not only (on average) do better in school, but end up being more successful later in life. So. I'm not seeing your problem with this quote.
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Actually, when it comes to most Black people, I’d be satisfied if they’d become bilingual in terms of Ebonics and English.
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Wow. Way to stereotype and entire race based on nothing.
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Seriously. Watch one of the cop shows where they’re interviewing Black suspects in an interrogation room. Nine times out of ten, the Blacks require sub-titles so that the audience can make out what they’re mumbling.
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Again, you stereotype a race based on a "statistic" ("9 times out of 10...") that you pulled from thin air. Then you comment on their use of subtitles. This reminds me of a joke video I watched the other day:
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You might say that the sub-titles are to help understand the mumbling.
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Or, because its a lower quality recording and its hard to make anyone out. Thats why most cop shows have subtitles for the cops as well. You aren't commenting on their english are you?
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By insisting on using that stupid dialect, Black people consign themselves to the lower rung of the economic ladder forever, just as surely as will a Mexican who speaks no English. Of course, any Black who speaks proper English is scorned for “acting White”—and thus will social pressure (and not “The Man") perpetuate a bad situation.
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Iv got to say, this post disgusted me. I had half a mind from the start to report it, but I decided better to debate it then ask for it to be removed. You are generalizing about an entire race, using a minority of the African American population to comment on the entire population. Where are your numbers showing how a majority don't "speak english". Where is your proof that "any black who speaks proper english is scorned for "acting white."" I think you need to edit this post a bit, and try using verifiable evidence and real numbers, instead of stereotyping an entire race based upon anecdotal evidence and hearsay.