"Gingrich talks the language of stupid."

by: Juan Melli

Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 04:38:48 PM EDT

This weekend former House Speaker and potential Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called Spanish "the language of living in a ghetto." Assemblyman Reed Gusciora responded:

"In essence" said Gusciora, "Gingrich talks the language of stupid."
Closer to home, Gusciora also pointed to recent remarks by a Freehold Borough Councilman that segments of the Latino population were "promiscuous" and expected society to "subsidize their mistakes."
"It is alarming that elected officials or persons in power wish to resort to demagoguery instead of leading a dialogue on how to better assimilate legal immigrants into the American fabric," he continued.
Gusciora charged that collectively, such comments are racially insensitive and inappropriate. The Assemblyman also pointed out that historically, various ethic cultures were singled out for attack, which has escalated to episodes of violence in our country.
"The Latino community, on the whole, is comprised of law-abiding, tax-paying, hard-working citizens. Public figures such as Gingrich should engage the public in constructive debate and not rants about hate."

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Language is not a theoretical debate (0.00 / 0)

The issue of language is not a theoretical debate. In NM a huge number of people in the state just do not speak English. Are we supposed to just let them live in chaos? Of course not. There is a Spanish-speaking component of just about everything here. People want to learn English - it's absurd to think that people don't want better jobs. But immigrants' or citizens' preferences aside, these human beings are here. The children are in the schools and they are in the hospitals and medical clinics, so the society had better be able to comunicate with them. One of the things I like about Richardson is that he understands that it is ridiculous to deny people the language they know and speak. To try to deny people their language is ludicrous and would lead to chaos (which is what they have in Texas with all of those people driving around without drivers' licenses).

by: proud2Bliberal @ Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 03:32:16 AM UTC