Thursday, May 20, 2010

Arizona SB1070

Interesting quote from T Roosevelt. And let me say this: my own belief is that teachers and school have done a terrible disservice to children by "promoting" multiculturalism. It's bad enough that they have failed to teach students what it means to be American (for hints on how to do that, go to PragerUniversity.com and then watch his 5-minute videos on YouTube) but they have encouraged immigrants (legal and otherwise) to retain allegiance to their country of origin.



"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room but for one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

And to the writers and pundits who claim that SB1070 is a law that can be abused, what law is immune to that danger?

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