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Si se puede indeed

by | 12:12 pm, November 3, 2010 | 5 Comments

Just what does it say about Colorado elections when, as Senator Mark Udall, stood up at noon in Denver today to introduce newly elected (formerly appointed) Senator Michael Bennet, the chant of the crowd behind him was “Si se puede!”?

When our elections are being determined by people who think it appropriate not to speak english at an event surrounding the election of an American to the highest legislative office in the nation, we have a problem.

Link to Original post at Rossputin.com.

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  1.   Wilkes
      November 3rd, 2010 @ 12:49 pm

    Ross, Like it or not, it says we have to compete for that vote. Freedom is popular in every language.
    Viva la Libertad!

  2.   Rossputin
      November 3rd, 2010 @ 12:53 pm

    Wilkes,

    I don’t disagree with you at all, and I am not anti-immigrant or anti-immigration or xenophobic.

    What I am for is citizens (which is presumably what voters are, even in Denver) to have some decent level of assimilation including speaking the language of their adopted country.

    This issue isn’t just rhetorical; for example, the inability of Hispanic kids to speak English has profoundly negative impact on the quality of inner-city public education.

    To me, chanting in Spanish at the election of a Senator (in a public park, not a La Raza event), strikes me almost as a gesture of conquest.

  3.   John A
      November 3rd, 2010 @ 2:35 pm

    I don’t believe it was about freedom expressed in every language, although I certainly support all desiring freedom. IMO, it was about political correctness. Had a group of Nordic-looking folks gathered and shouted “Ja, wir können!” they’d likely been accused of being nazis…and promptly trashed by the media.

    My immigrant ancestors insisted their families learn English so they would be assimilated and thrive in the predominately english-speaking USA. As Ross said, such would benefit hispanic-speaking families and our educational system; their “in your face” attitude does neither.

  4.   Brian Wilson
      November 3rd, 2010 @ 3:57 pm

    Apparently we don’t want it bad enough. For the right to win, libertarians are going to have to accept a pro-life candidate and big government RINOs are going to have to accept a limited gov’t, non-establishment candidate. Until we think things are bad enough to compromise, we will suffer in the minority. Thanks a lot, guys, for four years of Democrat rule in Colorado.

  5.   Kevin J Jones
      November 3rd, 2010 @ 9:59 pm

    I can’t get riled up over a crowd chanting a simplistic translation of a vapid campaign slogan.

    But let’s not kid ourselves about the wonders of assimilation.

    The assimilated descendants of recent Mexican immigrants are actually more dysfunctional than Hispanophones in areas like domestic violence and age of first sexual activity, and I think illegitimacy, criminality and unemployment too.

    They assimilate to the cesspool of the modern American underclass, not to a functioning family culture.

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