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"Wayne" wrote:
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> "Sam Spade" wrote in message
> news:9KSdnTWeILhlDwrOnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@giganews.com...
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> On 5/9/2014 2:16 PM, Byker wrote:
> > "People of Color" are on their own. No more blaming Whitey for their
> > woes...
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> > California Legislators Fight Divisive Ethnic Battle
> >
> > Democrats are pitting African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos
> > against each other.
> >
> > Steven Greenhut
> > May 9, 2014
> >
> > SACRAMENTO-Republican legislators had often been criticized for being
> > divisive when they held up the passage of state budgets to exact
> > concessions-something that has subsided after the 2010 passage of
> > Proposition 25, which requires a simple majority to pass budget bills.
> >
> > Yet the fading of Republican power has not led to an era of Kumbaya. In
> > fact, the state Capitol recently has been plagued by some of the ugliest
> > and
> > most divisive political battles in years as Democrats fight one another
> > over
> > ethnic-related issues. A new bill that recently passed a Senate committee
> > is
> > likely to keep the hostilities boiling.
> >
> > The flashpoint was in March, after Asian-American legislators backed away
> > from their previous support of SCA 5, a constitutional amendment that
> > would
> > have asked voters to repeal Proposition 209. That was the 1996 statewide
> > initiative that banned racial and ethnic quotas in the state university
> > systems and other public facilities.
> >
> > Asian-American voters feared that their kids would face discrimination in
> > university admissions if the new measure passed-and they put pressure on
> > their legislators to back off. But some of SCA 5's supporters, who remain
> > intent on reviving the issue, were livid at how it all played out.
> >
> > The Sacramento Bee reported on "racially tinged reprisals," including
> > allegations that an unrelated bill by an Asian-American assemblyman was
> > killed by Latino and African-American legislators purely as retribution.
> > Several Latino and African-American legislators withdrew their support for
> > state Sen. Ted Lieu's congressional bid given that Lieu signed a letter
> > asking the Assembly speaker to shelve the bill.
> >
> > A cooling-off period seems in order, yet some of the same legislators who
> > backed SCA 5 also are backing a bill that could lead to the reinstatement
> > of
> > another controversial ethnic-related policy: bilingual education.
> >
> > In 1998, voters approved Proposition 227 mandating that public schools
> > teach
> > immigrant students with instruction that would be overwhelmingly in
> > English.
> > Sponsored by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ron Unz, the measure basically
> > ended public bilingual education programs that were said to have delayed
> > English fluency because they taught kids heavily in their native language.
> > It won with 61 percent of the vote.
> >
> > The measure wasn't only about methods of English instruction. Supporters
> > of
> > Prop. 227 argued that bilingual education was an impediment to
> > assimilation,
> > so it got caught up in the immigration debates even though Unz had opposed
> > Proposition 187, the 1994 initiative that restricted public services to
> > unauthorized immigrants.
> >
> > Yet the death of bilingual education has remained a sore point for many
> > Latino legislators. Last week, a Senate committee voted 7-0 to approve SB
> > 1174 by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Huntington Park/Long Beach. It would ask
> > voters
> > in November 2016 to "amend" Prop. 227 by deleting the English-immersion
> > requirement and leaving it up to local education officials. The bill is a
> > clear effort to reinstate bilingual-education programs.
> >
> > Indeed, Lara's statement on the vote laments the reduction of such
> > programs.
> > Given the evidence that immersion is a quicker way to teach immigrants
> > English, bilingual-ed's backers now champion the method as a way to help
> > kids maintain their Spanish-language heritage.
> >
> > Unz thinks that current legislators don't really remember the old debate,
> > but ultimately will be forced to back down in a fashion similar to what
> > happened after parents learned about SCA 5.
> >
> > "For most of a full generation, almost all young immigrant students in
> > California have been taught English as soon as they started school and
> > generally learned it perfectly well within a few months," Unz told me on
> > Friday. "If the California politicians and school administrators were
> > crazy
> > and stupid enough to try to switch back to Spanish-almost-only
> > instruction,
> > they'd encounter such a gigantic grassroots revolt they'd be politically
> > annihilated in very short order."
> >
> > That's a relief, but it still raises a disturbing question: Why are some
> > California legislators so eager to revive these old ethnic debates that
> > will
> > lead to nothing but bitterness and division?
> >
> > http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/09/california-legislators
fight-divisive-et
> >
> >
> # The racial diversity is another nail in the coffin of the one-time
> # Golden State.
>
> Absolutely. I sat in a coffee shop this AM and listened to two latinas
> ordered in english, then began to chat away in spanish for 30 minutes. Then
> they were joined by a gringa who didn't speak spanish. So the conversation
> continued between the three in english.
>
> My reaction? WTF????
> Why in the world would they choose to deliberately switch to spanish. Guess
> is was some sort of bonding thingy.
They were simply using their first language. All Mexicans
should be considered enemies of the USA and run out of the
country.
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