Gingrich refers to Spanish as "the language of living in the Ghetto" on CNN

[JI7]

just saw on CNN about Gingrich referring to Spanish as a language of living in the Ghetto. will the Republican candidates condemn his hateful comments ?

here is an article on it :

<Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with "the language of living in a ghetto" and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages.

"The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up" to vote, said Gingrich, who is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He made the comments in a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women.

"The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. … We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," Gingrich said to cheers from the crowd of more than 100.

"Citizenship requires passing a test on American history in English. If that's true, then we do not have to create ballots in any language except English," he said.

Peter Zamora, co-chair of the Washington-based Hispanic Education Coalition, which supports bilingual education, said, "The tone of his comments was very hateful. Spanish is spoken by many individuals who do not live in the ghetto." >

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2998127

[tanyev]

1. Keep talkin', Newt, keep talkin'.

:rofl:

[Ishoutandscream2]

44. Yes, run Newt, run Newt!

Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[treestar]

2. I wonder if he realizes that Spanish is spoken in other countries

Like Spain, for instance.

:rofl:

[kenny blankenship]

32. But here it's called "Mexican"

'I don't speak Mexican' is what Gingrich meant to say.

[whistle]

3. Not at all, reThuglicans will eat statements like that up

[NanceGreggs]

4. Uh-oh ...

Who's going to break it to the BushBaby that he has to learn to speak English?

[Kagemusha]

5. CNN seems to sidestep saying plainly he meant Spanish.

Clearly, he must have been, but CNN is not being bold in saying so. Since I've known CNN to dance around things before I am hardly arguing your impression is incorrect; I'm sure your impression IS correct. I'm just noting that CNN seems shy about it (because it might embarass Gingrich to make it sound like he's singling a language out?).

[Cha]

That's stupid and some might find

it offensive if they didn't consider the source.

Aren't Hispanics going to be the most populated in the USA some day? I seem to remember reading that. It's only smart to be bi-lingual..something newt the newt would never understand. Hope he runs as 3rd party.

[Cleita]

14. I believe that they believe that they are going to make us into

second class citizens, kind of like Hitler did with the Jews. If in their delusional thinking they can take the vote away from minorities like Hitler did, then I'm sure they feel they don't need our votes. Honestly, I think this is what they are thinking. Of course they haven't realized yet that no one except 21% of the voters believe them anymore.

[eleny]

6. He's going for that hotbed 20% of dyed in the wool racist voters

[Colobo]

7. Newt: Vete a la mierda.

[Cha]

31. Si, newt es un

pendejo y newt, "vete a la chingada."

[Jack Rabbit]

8. ¿Cómo?

¡Que un cabrón es!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. El ha olvidado los Puerto Riqueños

Ellos son ciudadanos de los Etados Unidos.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. Dice la verdad, señora, dice la verdad.

!!

[Colobo]

15. Si, nosotros somos americanos tambien

[nealmhughes]

25. No solos puertoriqueños, a todos nosotros estadounidenses.

A todo el mundo que hablen o lean español.

!Era la primera lingua del Mundo Nuevo!

Cuando los padres de Gingrich eran sin alfabetos en sus casitas de Inglaterra y Alemania, era pasando la Edad dorado en España y las Americas de la literatura.

Se dice que es Doctor of Philosophia, con estudientes de la facultad de la historia, pero no lo creo.

[journalist3072]

9. Yep..I posted about it in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2789095

[sasquatch]

10. Man, he's really giving himself the advantage in the SC primaries

[Cleita]

13. Yeesch. I don't give f**k what that crazy gargoyle has to say.

I can't believe he isn't even trying to hide his racism anymore. It will bite him in the end. I hope he says bigger and badder things about every minority or special interest groups he can think of. The more people he pisses off, the better.

[JohnnyLib2]

16. That's the real Mr. Arrogant Gingrich: woe be unto those

who might actually support his candidacy.

[DinahMoeHum]

17. Newt is what Jim Hightower would call "Bi-Ignorant".

n/t

[ComerPerro]

18. I want some RWer to answer this simple question for me. If this is America, and it is English only

and the Repigs like Bush and Newt are helping to champion this cause:

Then what the hell is this:

http://www.gop.com/espanol/

[DesertRat]

20. una buena pregunta!

[ComerPerro]

21. isn't it though? Someone should tell the GOP we are English only in America!

Why are they catering to people who can't speak English?

[ComerPerro]

19. dupe

[Skittles]

22. I prefer Spanish speaking illegal folk to the likes of Gingrich

yes INDEED

[kenny blankenship]

34. I'd prefer Spanish as the official language of the U.S. to a Gingrich presidency

In the first case I'd have to do some learning, but in the second I'd have to MOVE AWAY.

[Skittles]

43. you'd see me habla-ing very quickly

yes INDEED :hi:

[lpbk2713]

23. He's such a sweetheart.

Obviously he's just trying to get in Limbaugh's good graces.

Sleazy sack of shit.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. he's not getting off to a good start

[knitter4democracy]

26. That reminds me of a story from college.

Our (very odd) Spanish prof used to make the Conversational Spanish students all go to one of the stores in town and do a shopping trip. One time, a friend of mine (who now works for the Dept. of Homeland Security, which is scary) was in the class and talking with another student and trying to remember what to call something when they overheard a couple start grousing to each other about all the "illegals" in the store that day. The guy starts going off about how "those people" should all learn English or go home and starts getting nasty and then gets worse than that.

My friend went up to him and quietly told him that they were all citizens and in a Spanish class at our evangelical college and that most Spanish-speaking people in central Ohio know English very well, thank you very much. Apparently, the guy went red and left the store. :)

It's okay if you think they don't understand you or that they're not around. I'd bet Gingrich wouldn't have the cojones to say that on Latino talk radio in L.A.

[WinkyDink]

27. Good-bye, nomination! Make that, Adios!

[kenny blankenship]

33. Actually I kind of hope he gets the nomination

because if he keeps turning on the charm like that, we will beat him like a rug with almost anyone.

[martymar64]

28. Newt can chupa mi culo!

Pinche puto gordo!

[opihimoimoi]

29. Coma la vedica

[misanthrope]

30. Anyone remember "The Ugly American?"...

...Part of the stereotype was that the Ugly American showed their arrogance by coming to your country and expecting everyone to bend over backwards, to bridge the language gap created by the Ugly American who couldn't be bothered to learn your native tongue.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

35. Actually, the title of the original book is ironic

In the original book, The Ugly American, the "ugly" ones are the "beautiful people," the business people and diplomats who live like royalty in a poor country, ordering the locals around and not trying to understand their culture.

The "Ugly American" of the title is a very homely man (literally "ugly") who goes and lives among the people at their standard of living and works with them to solve some of their problems.

That 1959 book was part of the inspiration for the Peace Corps.

[JitterbugPerfume]

36. Gingrich is a very ugly and evil person

and speaking Spanish is not anti American .

people living in the good ole USof A do not bother to learn about other cultures , because after all they ARE inferior:sarcasm:

[SoCalifer]

37. Well if its "the language of living in a ghetto"

When I read the racist Gingrich's remark, I take it as him referring to the Mexican and other south of the border brown people, not the Spaniard.

With that in mind, my response to Gingrich is: Their language may be the language of living in a ghetto, but only because of the English language is the language of the forked tongued devils. I don't see any history of greedy indigenous Americans going around the world and committing rape, pillage, torture and genocide. But I see plenty of history of English speaking war mongering devils doing just that.

So Gingrich, despite what your pathetic little mind might think, your language represents a culture of barbarism and childish uncontrolled greed (like a monkey). And indigenous Americans represent a culture of ecology, cosmology and multidimensional understanding of the universe far superior than your little mind will ever be able to comprehend.

[BlooInBloo]

38. Every hispanic republican needs to justify their party membership in response to such statements...

And analogously for gay or black republicans.

To all 3: your party hates you.

[Ms. Clio]

39. once upon a time, the ghettos also echoed with other languages

Italian, Yiddish, Russian, etc. Their sons and daughters all grew up to speak English.

Por favor, GOPigs, please keep digging your grave with Latinos for generations to come.

[sakabatou]

40. .

[SoCalDem]

41. Newt & his pals speak in the "lingo of the KKK" n/t

[L. Coyote]

42. Language is important in the process of intelligence formation and brain

organization in children.

What if depriving a people of their native language results in less intelligent children?

Is this a plot to make everyone a stupid English-speaker?

Happy April Fool's Day.

[Tektonik]

45. What a jackass

Although I do agree w/ abolishing most ESL, ELL and bilingual programs for full immersion tactics alongside w/ pullout assistance if needed. Generally bilingual programs are rather ineffective, and a huge moneymaker for publishing companies.

[judaspriestess]

46. cheers to a crowd of more than a 100??

wow, he's got a great following. he is an hijo de puta madre. estupido sin verguenza

[HughMoran]

47. President Gingrich?

Pipe dream :rofl: