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> My friend Terry Graham wrote this:
>
> http://www.freespeechforum.org/banishSpanish.html
>
>  BANISH SPANISH:
> It's Classist, Elitist, Sexist and Un-American!
> Banish Spanish
>
> by Terry Graham
>
> The story broke June 22 (2005) that Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo is
> demanding answers from Mayor John Hickenlooper regarding Denver Public
> Library's Spanish language policies. In a widely circulated letter,
Tancredo
> asks The Hick a dozen questions regarding a planned Spanish-only library,
> the ongoing purging of English-language books, alleged job discrimination
> against librarians who don't speak Spanish, and much more (see letter
> below).
>
> Like most Americans, I am sick and tired of being force-fed all things in
> Spanish, and being Hispanified and Latinized as part of my everyday
> experience. The 11th Commandment, "Press 1 for English", makes me want to
> push the offender's Doomsday Button and say Adios!
>
> As a European-American who is fluent in Spanish (and English), thanks to
our
> now rapidly disintegrating public school system, I say: Banish Spanish!
>
> The truth is, Spanish is a classist, elitist, sexist language reflecting a
> social structure that has no place in America. Spanish is as un-American
> as....well, Montezuma.
>
> "Non-Hispanic White" is the outrageous, insulting label that U.S.
federales
> now use -- and expect me to adopt -- to define myself, a descendant of our
> nation's courageous, hardworking, liberty-loving Anglo-Saxon Protestant
> Founders. (Descendants of African slaves are being branded "Non-Hispanic"
> Blacks.) These de-ethnicizing, demeaning, self-canceling Orwellian tags
> transform us into offbrand Americans with second-string, unCola status in
a
> nation that demands we celebrate diversity while denying ours.
>
> I and many self-respecting American will not tolerate being defined by the
> failures of the Spanish Armada and Conquistadors to conquer and dominate
us.
>
> No thanks, we're Yanks. Comprende?
>
> We must also reject linguistic colonizers who shackle us with Spanish
words,
> like "Matricular Consular" (mah-tree-coo-lar cone-sue-lar) -- the Republic
> of Mexico's phony baloney ID card for illegal aliens. When oh-so-sensitive
> "NON-Hispanic" sheeple stumble to pronounce these foreign words, their
> efforts to assert America's sovereignty are lost in the baaaaaaaaaaa...d
> translation.
>
> As for tribalized Latinos, foreign and domestic, who demand we pronounce
> their surnames in their "native" language....no problem, if they'll
> pronounce my Scottish surname -- Graham -- with the properly trilled "r"
> (not the Spanish "r"), and hard, breathy "h". Turnabout is fair play, lads
> and lassies.
> .
> Lest we forget, Spanish is one of the great European languages. Claims by
> cultural Marxists that Spanish has been the indigenous language of
"Latinos"
> since sperm met egg in "Latin" America, and that learning English is
> genetically impossible or ethnically oppressive, should study up on
> Montezuma, Columbus and Hernan Cortes. Why would a colonized people want
to
> preserve a language that highlights their defeat and subjugation? No
> comprendo!
>
> Hispanics who rightly claim Spanish as their ancestors' native language
> (i.e., they came from the European country of Spain), yet demand
> European-Americans "go back to Europe" must understand they'll be on that
> boat. Duh!
>
> As a bilingual American, I appreciate that Spanish and other European
> romance languages are well suited to express beauty, romance, and intimacy
> in ways English cannot.
>
> Truly, language actively shapes, and reflects, an individual's and a
nation's
> world view.
>
> Spanish speakers pouring into our nation -- against the will of the
> majority -- are now encouraged to preserve a language which perpetuates
and
> promotes a world view and social structure at odds with the very
foundations
> of American freedoms, values and culture.
>
> As Spanish assumes an increasingly dominant position in the US, aided and
> abetted by government traitors (spending our money), corporate profiteers,
> and tax-free open-borders foundations, we English speakers must recognize
> that Spanish subjugates the "little" people.
>
> Spanish blatantly divides society into the superior Patron
> (Owner/Boss/Nobility) and inferior peon (worker) class, with no middle
> ground -- no middle class, the beacon of freedom. This basic Top Dog/runt
> social construct is reflected in the Spanish word for "you" ("Usted"),
which
> is capitalized. One's self is relegated to the lower case, lower class
"yo",
> which means "I".
>
> Spanish's small yo, big Usted (i.e., lowercase "i", capitalized "You")
> personifies two-tiered, classist societies of rich/poor,
> entitled/disenfranchised. (Think Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.) The
> powerless peon comes, hat in hand, eyes cast to the floor, to respectfully
> request a favor from his Patron, who controls the world. For the majority
in
> Spanish-speaking nations, the answer of who controls the world is rarely
>  "yo" and typically: Usted.
>
> The reverse is true in English, where "I" is capitalized and the other,
>  "you", is expressed in lower case, championing the power of the
individual
> while reflecting the diminished, secondary status of others...be they
> presidents, kings/queens, or groups. We terminated the King/subject-serf
> relationship with American blood shed during our Revolutionary War. No
more
> Thou/Thee, except for God. Indeed, Citizen is the highest title any
American
> can hold.
>
> Given English's explicit I/you hierarchy, is it any wonder that our
> Founders -- uniquely in all of the world -- perceived and described
> God-given inalienable INDIVIDUAL rights in our Constitution and Bill of
> Rights? Not civil (group) rights; not (everyone else's at our expense)
human
> rights. Individual rights, with a capital I.
>
> Beside its caste system, Spanish is also a sexist language, a truth that
> open-borders internationalist feminists deny, while they demand Americans
> neuter our few gender-specific words.
>
> As an all-American female student of Spanish, I find it pretty hard to
wrap
> my head around a language which assigns genders to pens, pencils, cars,
> tables and everything else. English's gender-neutral articles, "the" and
"a",
> have no Spanish equivalent. Instead, all Spanish nouns are either
masculine
> or feminine, "el" or "la", and adjectives undergo sex changes to match.
> Sexist Spanish today permeates our lives, and I insist Gloria Steinem do
> something, N.O.W! Take Back the Speak, Sister.
>
> Has anyone else noticed that Spanish-language activists demand the very
> patron status they claim to have emigrated to escape? They expect us
> Americans to become their peons, handing over our nation, money, language
> and individual liberties.
>
> Let these pushy, wannabe patrons work out their pathetic peon complexes in
> their homelands. Peon envy has no place in America.
>
> The bottom line is that Spanish is an elitist, classist, sexist language
> which could never play a role in shaping or preserving America's
> Constitutional Republic, our founding documents, and individual rights.
>
> Spanish is intrinsically suited to dictatorships and inequitable social
> status. Reality is that in Spanish-speaking societies, the majority
> languishes in linguistic lockdown.
>
> In stark contrast, American English is the language of liberty and
> individual empowerment for all.
>
> Americans must reject efforts to impose Spanish upon us, for Spanish per
se
> threatens the greatness of our Republic, our individual rights, and our
> hard-won social, political and economic structures. Those seeking to yoke
us
> with Spanish must be treated as dangerous, colonizing culture vultures who
> would destroy us.
>
> Shake off those Spanish shackles...
>
> Banish Spanish.
>
> � 2005 Terry Graham. Terry Graham is an American Citizen who was brutally
> assaulted last year by a Mexican national at an Immigration Forum held in
> Denver by First Data/Western Union. She has filed a civil lawsuit against
> her attacker and the event sponsors, and is seeking donations to pay for
her
> legal costs. She can be reached at teegra22@yahoo.com. (Author's P.S.
Kudos
> to "Real Madrid", Spaniards who took to the streets to protest a criminal
> alien murderer.)
>
> This article may be reproduced as is with proper and author contact
> information. Any other use without Terry Graham' s express, written
> permission violates copyright law.
>
> BACK TO HOME PAGE
>
>
> CONGRESSMAN TANCREDO'S LETTER TO MAYOR HICKENLOOPER:
>
>
http://tancredo.house.gov/pressers/0621TancredoAsksQuestionsAboutDenverLibraryPolicies.htm
>
> June 21, 2005
>
> The Hon. John Hickenlooper
> Mayor of Denver
> 1347 Bannock Street, Suite 350
> Denver, CO 80204-2718
>
> Dear Mayor Hickenlooper:
>
> Several Denver residents who are affiliated with the Denver Public Library
> have come to me with concerns about changes underway in the Library. I
hope
> their concerns are misplaced, and I hope you can show me they are
misplaced.
>
> I will put these concerns in the form of several questions. Each question
is
> based on information from employees and patrons of the library.
> Unfortunately, these Denver citizens choose to remain anonymous because
they
> fear for their jobs.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Is the Denver Public Library implementing a plan to convert very large
> sections of several branch libraries - ranging from 10% to 62% of book and
> periodical holdings -- to Spanish language holdings?
>
> 2. Has the Denver City Council ever debated and approved a plan to convert
> one or more existing library branches to "Language and Learning Centers"
> with predominantly Spanish language books, magazines and materials?
>
> 3. Does the proposed new mill levy for a new library district include
funds
> for a new branch library that will be designated a "Language and Learning
> Center" with Spanish language materials only?
>
> 4. Has the Spanish-language-only concept for branch libraries ever been
> discussed or evaluated by the Library Commission or the City Council as a
> factor promoting social fragmentation, cultural balkanization, and ethnic
> separatism?
>
> 5. What is the basis for believing that current bilingual Latino patrons
> prefer that current English language materials be converted to
Spanish-only
> holdings?
>
> 6. Since the proposed new library district is coterminous with the City of
> Denver, what purpose can be served besides a disguised tax increase and
> diminished accountability to the Mayor and the City Council?
>
> 7. Will the results of the public opinion polls conducted on these issues
> with public monies by Ciruli Associates be made public?
>
> 8. Have the Focus Groups run by Corona Research been designed and
conducted
> to obtain results that support the conversion plan?  Have the unvarnished
> results of the Focus Groups (not sanitized summaries) ever been shared
with
> the Library Commission and the public?
>
> 9. Has the library's management announced that only library employees
> bilingual in Spanish - not Vietnamese, German, Korean or other languages ?
> will be eligible for raises?  If so, is this not contrary to civil service
> rules and blatantly discriminatory on its face?
>
> 10. Is a Mexican Driver's License now accepted in city libraries as valid
ID
> for use of library facilities and services? Are driver's licenses from
other
> nations also accepted?
>
> 11. Are English language books being thrown out in the trash to make room
> for Spanish language materials? Why are books being thrown into the trash
> instead of being given to schools, non-profit organizations, or saved for
> the book sales?  Has the Library Commission approved this practice?
>
> 12. Is DPL assisting "undocumented" (illegal) aliens in purchasing homes
> through sponsorship of workshops for undocumented aliens in cooperation
with
> the Colorado Housing Assistance Corporation? Does DPL make any distinction
> between legal and illegal residents in providing its taxpayer-funded
> services?
>
> Mr. Mayor, I sincerely hope that you can provide answers to these
questions
> that will lay these concerns to rest.
>
> Thank you for your attention to these questions.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Tom Tancredo
> Member of Congress
>
> cc:   Members of the Denver Library Commission
>         City Librarian Rick Ashton
>         Denver City Council
>         Denver Public Library Friends Foundation
>
>
> �2004 & 2005 FreeSpeechForum.org
>
>