3:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism| Politics| literature
3 Apr 2007
Sure his website pushing for him to be the next president of the United States may have a page in Spanish, but that doesn’t mean Newt Gingrich has to like the language. In a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women (sound like a party to me), Newt said that bilingual education made people who could only speak the language of the ghetto.
“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,”
Newt also said that he was against multilingual voting ballots.
Don’t you love how politicos use Spanish when it works for them and when it doesn’t, they trash it?
Via / The Sun-Sentinal
Image Via / NNDB
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