Whoduhthunkit!?

Well I haven’t written in like…a week…but I do beg your forgiveness. I don’t like to write unless I have something to say if you know what I mean. I’ve been so flogged with "going’s ons" lately that I’ve been speechless. That and…I have had something on my mind but I wasn’t sure if I should write about it. It’s fairly, well really it’s VERY, controversial. I know it’s not P.C. but heck. I have spoken with a few people about it and it seems that I am not alone in my opinion, humble as it is. So I thought…let me put it out there and if anyone has input I’ll take the hits.

It all started with a trip to the local amusement park. There was a family there, a rather large family, whose children were swimming in jeans and shirts OR their underpants. Yeah SWIMMING as in, water, paddling, splashing…swimming.  ALL of the children did not have swimsuits or even shorts. It hit me then that they might be low income and could not afford the "extra niceties" such as swimsuits or even SHORTS. Now I am not a prig believe me. I have BEEN there in the low income brackets MANY times for LONG periods of time. I DID make sure that my kids had at least SHORTS on to swim but hey…whatever. The thing that BOTHERED me was how the whole thing blew up. The attendants at the park kindly asked the parents to take their children OUT of the water or suit them in shorts at the very least. Jeans held too much water and were a drowning risk in the deeper sections of the wave pool and underwear were…see thru and immodest in this heavily christian land. The mother..she did not speak English - AT.ALL. The father did not either…they were forced to rely on a relative who spoke BROKEN English (broken between Spanish and English) to semi-translate for them. They THEN have the nerve to get ANGRY at the attendant saying that this was discrimination ("You no want us because we Mexicanos! We not have big money! We not get good big money job!") and throw FITS as loud and shrill as they could.

I am sorry but this is where I began my whole thought process on the subject which is now a mental tirade.

IF YOU WANT THE "GOOD BIG MONEY JOB" SPEAK THE FRIGGIN’ LANGUAGE!!!!!

Hey I am ALL for pride in your ethnic background baby but don’t let it CRIPPLE you! You refuse to learn OUR language and instead insist that we cater to yours? You came HERE baby and OUR language is AMERICAN (for those of you who imagine WE speak English please refer to the country that actually DOES which is England). If I left THIS country to go to..say…Italy…it would behoove me to learn the FRIGGIN’ LANGUAGE so I could get along with the NATIVES and not make THEM accomodate ME. No…you come HERE and insist that WE learn SPANISH, post our street signs in SPANISH, write our indications, directions, warnings, and pamphlets in SPANISH…shoot…it’s gotten to the point that those who speak Spanish as a second language are going to get preference for JOBS over those who DON’T and ONLY speak OUR NATIVE TONGUE! I have ZERO problems with bilingual skills, I encourage it in my children but GEEZ folks. This is AMERICA not little Spain or BIG MEXICO.

So they don’t learn the language but they want high paying jobs. High paying jobs require that they be fluent in OUR language but that is DISCRIMNATION and it threatens their cultural identity. Speaking a new language isn’t going to erase who or what you are…it just makes you MORE EDUCATED. Now they have LOW income jobs and LOW income housing and LOW income lifestyles and they want MORE but won’t work for it. They want to get their salaries and NOT pay into Social Security, disability, or the Medicaid system but they damn sure WANT SOME. They are supposed to be able to get all sorts of economic assistance but they take and don’t GIVE while we GIVE and are labeled as discriminatory if we ask that they at LEAST learn the FRIGGIN’ LANGUAGE!

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not judging ALL of our immigrant friends, many are solid people who are my pleasure to call friends. They work HARD, go to school at night, raise respectable and hard working children just as I do, and look for a better life for their families JUST LIKE THE REST OF US. They don’t want a handout, they don’t want special consideration, and they are PROUD to be working on becoming American Citizens. The folks I am talking about HERE are the ones that expect US to mold to what THEY want and give nothing in return…nothing…not effort, not kindness, not even the respect to speak our native freakin’ language!

But hey this is America and we are all about freedom so you are FREE to speak whatever language you want, hold on to your identity with all ten claws, and refuse to become a part of our country…and WE are FREE to NOT CATER TO YOUR EVERY DEMAND and be ourselves…and we just happen to SPEAK THE FREAKIN’ LANGUAGE. We also are free to tell you that we don’t like that you refuse to speak it and that WE refuse to speak yours.

Roll THAT in your burrito and smoke it.