Racism still exists to the extent it does in this country, because the government still allows racial, religious, gender and ethnic groups to put a “label” on themselves, & hate everyone not like themselves, and cater to only their group’s interests. (BTW every ethnicity is GUILTY to the max about that kind of self-supremacy).The problem is getting much worse as “latinos” add their own form of “in your face racism”, to a racism situation that WAS disappearing and declining 10 years ago as Whites bought into the fairness and ethic if it. Now everyone is seeing these groups just lie, and lie and lie, and just take care of themselves, by self-segregating themselves.

The backlash started when gender supremacy groups began to advocate for laws to privilige just their own gender, and then ethnic groups began to advocate for laws to privilige just their own ethnic group, and then religious groups began to advocate for laws to privilige just their own religious group, and CONGRESS and the Judical branch are guilty of letting it get so acrimnonious and disgusting and fracturing the nation as it is today and not doing a thing about it (because they are supremacists interested only in thier group). No EEOC violation now gets punished (Such as spanish workers getting special hiring considerations in National chain banks and no lawsuits are being enforced or lawsuits filed.

If you want to get rid of racisim and don’t want to see a HUGE backlash in response to the open and arrogant racisim of latino’s toward whites and blacks, (and even some asians and muslims) and latino supremacy attitudes of the “illegal” alien advocacy groups, the we must all put a stop to ALL of it. The Executive branch needs to lead it if their is any leadership left, and everybody needs to stop picking on just whites, they for the most part have been silent about reverse racism.

To stop it ALL, WE must BAN all reference to each other in terms of gender, racial, ethnic, and religious group labeling and privilige seeking. What a concept! Huh?

THAT is the problem my dear friends. It must become enforceable law, starting with business hiring practices favoring ethnicities and the largest ethnic groups now practicing racism, supremacy, and ethnic privilige in the country. Now who would that be? Betcha you are racially biased!
Some of us here are actually trying to stop this crap before it gets far worse.

I have always been annoyed by bi-lingual anything. Why provide drivers ed tests in multiple languages, since you still have to read English in order to read the signs (in America)?

My grandparents had to learn English. They learned English. It’s not so bad. After all, the fact that they learned English meant that they went from blue collar to white collar in the immigrant generation.

If you want to clean other people’s toilets your whole life and you want your children to clean other people’s toilets their whole lives (don’t get me wrong, it is honorable work if you enjoy doing it), then don’t learn English.

A hispanic family lives on my street, they have one person in the house who can converse in barely passable english. Everyone else, including the children, dont speak a lick of it (the kids are about 6-10 years old too). So how’s that for assimilation? A perfect example of a family that’s here to get the benefits of our country but not put anything back in.

People have to learn English in this country regardless just because it is the language of commerce not only in the United States, but around the world.

Some people who I know that speak Spanish know English, just that they feel that is easier to converse in their native language.

People will speak Spanish in their homes and communities; however, this whole fear of that language taking over the world is a little off-base.

Those who do not know English are at a severe disadvantage, trust me. If immigrants, legal or otherwise do want to get ahead, they’ll learn.

How can you say that people have to learn English? There have been many examples posted in this thread and the other to show that one can easily get by living here without having to learn English. They can also make money, own cars, own homes, shop and conduct business with the local, State, and Federal Governments without having to say a word of English.

They are already ahead of where they were in their Native Countries, so again the incentive to learn English just is not there.

I like to think that as in the past the second generation will speak English. However, there are many differences between the past and what we are facing today.

People have to learn English in this country regardless just because it is the language of commerce not only in the United States, but around the world.

Some people who I know that speak Spanish know English, just that they feel that is easier to converse in their native language.

People will speak Spanish in their homes and communities; however, this whole fear of that language taking over the world is a little off-base.

Those who do not know English are at a severe disadvantage, trust me. If immigrants, legal or otherwise do want to get ahead, they’ll learn.

I guess living in a “yankee” State was not all that it was cracked up to be.

Frankly, I’m not quite sure what to make of all that….being multilingual is a benefit when applying for many positions…..and certainly there are more Spanish-only speaking people in PWC than there are people who speak other non-English languages.

However, the extent to which we accommodate the Spanish only speaking segment of our society will certainly affect their motivation to learn/speak/write English.

Nothing like having a couple of black sheep in the family tree.

“The cavalry charge is shared with General es_le_ley.”

Bwahahaha! Definitely not a General. Lowly private perhaps.

Actually, as far as the civil war goes, my allegiance is to the Union, but I have sympathies for the Confederacy.
During the War, many counties in Virginia didn’t want to be part of the Confederacy. On June 20, 1863, those counties seceded from Virginia, and West Virginia was born. My old kinfolk were in that mess. Hence my allegiance to the North and sympathies to the South.

Back to the original point though. Equating the Southern flag to slavery is pure balderdash. It represents Southern heritage and pride. Anyone who has *really* studied the history of the Civil War would know that.