Roosevelt’s Univision
A vision for a united America:
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
- Theodore Roosevelt 1907
(AP): Bill Richardson, one of two candidate who speak fluent Spanish, objected to the debate rules that required all candidates to answer in English. The rule was designed to make sure that no candidate had an advantage in appealing to the Spanish-speaking audience.
“I’m disappointed today that 43 million Latinos in this country, for them not to hear one of their own speak Spanish, is unfortunate,” said Richardson, the governor of New Mexico. “In other words, Univision is promoting English-only in this debate.”
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Man, do we need a TR again. Too bad they don’t teach TR’s vision for America in the pubic schools anymore. There’s way too many Ward Churchills and too few patriots. Civics is just a another word for Howard Zinn; just like “progressive” is just another word for Marx or V.I Lennin.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:41 amcarry that big stick and swing it!
I would love to have the USS Roosevelt parked in our Gulf of Mexico launching sorties to strafe the border with mexico
kismet anyone?
September 11th, 2007 at 9:47 amWhere are today’s statesmen? Such clarity of expression!!! Love the photo too.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:50 am“… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
The moonbat take on that would be:
IMPEACH ROOSEVELT FOR DISCRIMINATORY HATESPEECH!!!!
September 11th, 2007 at 9:56 amSteve, I was impartial to helicopter gunships patrolling the border.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:13 amFuck Bill Richardson and the 43 million Latinos living here. That goes for every other nationality living in America. T.R. states exactly how I feel. If you want to be an American, you half to be an American or else get the fuck out of my country!!!!!!! We should have no terms such as Latino, African American, and Native American etc. We are all American!!!!! We all speak English so learn the language and the culture or get out !!!!
September 11th, 2007 at 11:11 amDon’t you know: TR is just another old dead white man. His ideas about America are so passe. We need to bow down and try to curry favor with all foreigners, so they will love us like in the good old days of Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Seriously though, we are fortunate the illegals in this country are Latino and not Islamic. The illegal Latinos can be made to be Americans, some how, some day, after returning to their own countries, being weeded out, paying their dues, etc., etc. We are lucky we don’t have 11 million illegal Islamics, because they generally don’t want to conform to our culture, to become Americans, and their leaders so state. Look at the problems in England, France, Sweeden, etc. Richardson is sort of an idiot–Latino Americans don’t want to speak Spanish. They speak English. Why doesn’t Richardson campaign in Mexico and run for the Mexican presidency, if he wants to speak Spanish?
September 11th, 2007 at 11:16 amno habla englise,, como homo obama sadaama,,
September 11th, 2007 at 11:21 amTheodore Roosevelt was our best president, I’m Mexican-American and don’t speak Spanish, why?, I don’t care for it. I’m proud to be an American and proud of any foreigners that assimilate.
September 11th, 2007 at 4:32 pmOh, wendy, watch out. Your Nazi is showing. To think that your father or grandfather actually fought against nazis. You should be ashamed of yourself.
September 26th, 2007 at 6:58 amBy the way, Wendy, I think you meant “have to be” instead of “half to be”
September 26th, 2007 at 7:01 amShame again, that your English should be corrected by a Native Spanish Speaker and a citizen of the US.
Too bad. You loose.
Those who do not know where they come from do not know who they are. Wisdom from my Russian born, spanish speaking almost illiterate grandma.
Saludos a todos desde Los Estados Unidos que incluyen en vez de excluir.
For those who cannot read that sentence it says:
September 26th, 2007 at 7:06 amGreetings from the United States that includes instead of excluding.
(The better of the two USAs in my humble opinion)
PS: I came to this country 25 years ago. I spoke very little English then.
I have worked my way from the very bottom and it makes me sick to see how Americans say things like “We speak English” but have so little pride that are not able or willing to learn how to speak it properly (much less spell it) Who is the lazy one?
Wendy says:
Fuck Bill Richardson and the 43 million Latinos living here. That goes for every other nationality living in America.
And I reply:
Where are your ancestors from, wendy? Because you just pretty much fucked yourself with that one.
No one has ownership rights on his/her country of citizenship. We rent, we do not own a thing.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:15 amAs for the kind invitation to leave for anyone that does not speak English. Can I show you the door? You do not seem to have much regard for that language either.
lamplighter says
Why doesn’t Richardson campaign in Mexico and run for the Mexican presidency, if he wants to speak Spanish?
I reply:
Maybe because he is a US born citizen and has the same right as any US born citizen to run for the presidency. (read your constitution sometime) regardless of what language he might want to speak.(the constitution does not say that speaking Spanish would disqualify anybody from running)
Ahh the joys of Democracy, it flies on the face of people like you, who despise it so much as to disregard the principles on which it was founded.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:20 amHave a little respect for the constitution, will you? Aren’t you such a patriotic being?
You loose.
Sorry.