Otra vez con el English Only
With just a couple of instructions in his courtroom, Judge Barry Tatum single-handedly trampled over civil rights, upheld the "superiority" of English, reinforced women's and National oppression and found another way to say, "America: Love it or leave it!"
Two months ago, Tatum, a judge in Lebanon, Tennessee instructed a woman, originally from Oaxaca, Mexico to use birth control AND learn English.
Last October this same judge also told another Mexican woman that, if at their next meeting she didn't speak English at a fourth-grade level, he would begin the process of terminating her parental rights.
The L.A. Times quoted Nashville attorney Jerry Gonzalez, who is representing one of the women as saying, "The court specially informs the mother that if she does not make the effort to learn English, she is running the risk of losing her daughter forever."
In George W. Bush's world, you can be good enough to risk death to come to this country and work the hardest jobs for little pay, but you will never be good enough to speak your own language.
posted by Nikolai Garcia @ 4:02 PM
6 Comments:
Simply amazing. And this came from one of those evil liberal judges that are trying to destroy America, right? I heard you guys on Michael Slate's show today. Cool blog!
Sometimes I think someone should organize A day everyone speaks anything but English.
Everyone should know as many langues as possible!!!!
I hear you and Luciente on the radio. Good job!!!
I think that in a new society, people should not only speak a multitude of languages but develop new ones and make every effort to preserve dying languages!
can you post a link to the article(s) that you're referring to? Thanks! And I like the idea of a No English Day!
Yo Osage! We will to a better job of leaving links for everybody. I can't find one at the moment, but here's the title, author, and the begining of one of the articles I was refering to.
1. Judge tells moms in custody cases to learn English
January 29, 2005
Civil rights, immigrant advocates say language bias unconstitutional By NATALIA MIELCZAREK Staff Writer A Wilson County child-court judge has been ordering foreign-born women to learn English for the good of their children - an action that some regard as unconstitutional. In a case this week, Judge Barry Tatum insisted that an 18-year-old Mexican woman take language classes and consider using birth control. Tatum said his admonition didn't come out of malice or the urge to...
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