Pro English

I found another website besides the US English Inc. that promotes making English the official language in the United States. I have to admit that I came across the ProEnglish page by reading a quotes page. I was reading some quotes about immigration and this one really caught my attention.

When people settle in a foreign country with little or no intention of abandoning their native culture, or, increasingly, no intention of abandoning their native language and native political allegiance, the correct word for the process isn't "reverse assimilation." And it isn't immigration. The correct word in the English language is "colonization." Because that's exactly what it is." - KC McAlpin, Executive Director,ProEnglish

This is one of the best quotes that I have run across lately. For those of you who don't understand, just pay attention next Cinco de Mayo and see how many Mexican flags you see in this country. The website with the quotes can be found here; and I would recommend that you stop by and see what you think. Anyways the author of the quote is the executive director for ProEnglish. ProEnglish is a site that supports English being made the official language in the United States.


For those of you who are living in Colorado; we are a state that is official English.
Here is the map that shows which states are officialial English and which are not.
The states in Blue are official English and the Red states are not. This image is taken from the ProEnglish website. The page where the map can be found is here; I would recommend you go there and see what your State's constitution says.
For those of you living in Colorado I have provided the text below.

COLORADO CONSTITUTION,
ARTICLE II, SECTION 30 (1988)
The English language is the official language of the State of Colorado.
This section is self-executing; however, the General Assembly may enact laws to implement this section.

Colorado allows referenda and voter initiatives to pass new statutes or to change the state's constitution. In 1988, this state passed an amendment to their state constitution making English the state's official language. 15.1 percent of this state's residents speak a language other than English. The most common of these languages are Spanish, German, French, and Korean. The number of Coloradoans who speak little or no English has more than triples since 1990.
In 2002, Colorado voters rejected an initiative to replace bilingual education with English immersion. Opponents spent more than $3 million on an ad campaign which they later acknowledged included false information.

Does anyone else think that the number of people not able to speak English in Colorado tripling might be a bad thing? I believe in supporting causes that I believe in. That is why I decided to join ProEnglish. For a donation of $20 you will be supporting a valid cause and also will receive a subscription to the ProEnglish Advocate; the quarterly newsletter put out by ProEnglish. I would suggest that if having English as an official language is of importance to you then show it by contributing. Personally, I get tired of sitting around talking about problems and yet not having a good solution to them. Even though I don't have a lot of money to contribute I was able to find $20. Even if you are not ready to donate, I would suggest browsing ProEnglish, as it has a wealth of information showing why Official English just makes sense.

Another article about the poor black man...

I am the only white person who feels oppressed by the media paying attention to only the (so called) minorities? Personally I am tired about hearing that the black men is not paid on par with the white man. I am also fed up with the support programs that we have in place that benefit almost everyone except a middle class white person. This post will mainly be in response to an article that I read on yahoo news. He is the first quote that I would like to address:

Black men's median wages are barely three-fourths those of whites; nearly 1 in 3 black men will spend time behind bars during his life; and, on average, black men die six years earlier than whites.

Well perhaps if black men would stop committing crimes they would stop spending time in jail. I know, I know, the black man is still being discriminated against in our country and I shouldn't say such mean things. Humbug!

So let's give all the black people in America the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps this is White America and we discriminate against the black man. To what extent does this supposed discrimination extend? Well unless it is an all out war on the black man, there has to be some reason for the differences in the prison statistics. I mean if you compare black men in jail with white men, it is not a small difference. Well don't take my word for it.

"At yearend 2004 there were 3,218 black male sentenced prison inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,220 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 463 white male inmates per 100,000 white males."

The above quote is from The Bureau of Justice Statistics.

"Black mothers and fathers socialize their sons to not make waves, to not come up against the authorities, to speak even more politely not only when there are whites present but particularly if there are whites who have power," she said.

As far as black men acting respectful around the white man, I don't know where they get this. I will admit right now that I live in Greeley, Colorado where there are about 25 black people in the town of around 80,000 +. The main population is composed of white and Hispanic people. The black people that I have met either at the gym or playing basketball have not worried about making sure they were respectful, and why would they be!? They were not disrespectful or flattering to me. In fact they were just like everybody else I meet except, wait they had black skin! Sorry I almost forgot. I knew there was something that I was overlooking. As far as the gang banger tough guy image that all the rappers on MTV try to portrait, the black people that I have met have been reasonable people. So before you go off and call me racist and a few other nasty words that you have memorized to spit at people with a different view point than you, keep in mind that I don't have a problem with anyone because of the color of their skin or where they were born. Wow, I am really getting defensive on a blog article that only 5 people will probably every read.

As black boys become adolescents, the dangers escalate. Like most teenagers, they battle raging hormones and identity crises. Many rebel, trying to fit in by mimicking and sometimes becoming criminals.

"They are basically seen as public menaces," Lacewell said.

The above is another quote from the article. Do I really need to point out that all adolescents have a steady stream of hormones flowing out their ears. Now correct me if I am wrong but don't adolescents of other colors deal with this in other ways besides becoming criminals?

So let's get back to the original quote that caught my attention. I have already addressed the part about why I think the crime rates differ significantly between whites and blacks. So let us look at the issue of black mens wages being about 3/4 of a white mans wages.

So supposedly black men receive about 75% of a white mans wages. Well you should probably explain that to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.

"New statistics from the Census Bureau confirm the powerful economic advantage that accrues to African Americans who hold a four-year college degree. Current figures for the year 2004 show that blacks with a college diploma now have a median income that is 95 percent of the median income of similarly educated whites. Blacks with a doctorate actually have higher incomes than similarly educated whites. These are extraordinary achievements that have been consistently overlooked by most commentators."

This study is where the above quote comes from. What is this about blacks with a doctorate degree having higher income than a white man with a doctorate? Where are they people attacking this issue? How come I don't read in the newspapers that a new group has been formed to give equal pay to white men with doctorate degrees? I think someone should definitely take up this cause.
So as far as I am concerned, most of the reality about discrimination against blacks compared to whites is media hype. Someone should ask- Why is the media trying to portray black people as the poor oppressed race? Now I want to clear one thing up before I end this article. Yes, I do realize the racism still exist. I see plenty of it in my town almost everyday. However as people begin to shed more and more of their ignorance this will decrease.

Excuse me?!

"I think I clean up pretty well- I dress well, I speak well- but all that goes out the window when I show up at a meeting full of white men," says Ferguson of New Jersey, who is 6-foot-4 and dark-skinned. "It's because they're afraid of me."

I could just not let this go. This is the last part of the horrible news story that I want to address.
This is a call to all scrawny white men who plan to enter the business world. Get your lazy ass in the gym and put some size on. Quit being timid pushovers! Perhaps you would not be so afraid if you actually had some size to speak of. I really try to keep this blog free of curse words but this is really trying my patience.