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Sen. Obama: "Immigrants Should Learn English." "Make Sure Your Child Can Speak Spanish!" "It's Embarrasing..."

See the video of his comments below.



This is not a political endorsement. I work very hard to remain objective in political commentaries regarding Latinos in this country. Many of you also know that I am a non-partisan consultant to Newt Gingrich on Latino affairs. Speaker Gingrich is also a student in our Spanish training program. If Sen. Obama would like to learn Spanish I would love to help him as well. I just keep it real with whomever I speak.

Sen. Obama is to be admired for keeping it real on this subject. At least he has the guts to say what most thinking people without a political agenda already recognize in this country. Ironically, he said this in Powder Springs, GA. This is Cobb County, the county that elected Newt Gingrich to the House of Representatives and the home of the recent Obama 08' T-shirt with Curious George on it that created such a flap.

Yes, immigrants should learn English and you and your kids should be bilingual (English and Spanish) to compete in the job market in the United States and Western Hemisphere. Language is not the issue, the issue is we live in a free market enterprise and corporations will do whatever to get and keep an edge in business. Unfortunately, the immigration debate has become a debate about language. How silly! Do any of us doubt the obvious benefit of being bilingual over being monolingual? Read more of my thoughts on language in the following post.
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posted by Ricardo González on July 10, 2008.

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