Bush and the NAACP

[Dingo Jellybean]

I am by no means a republican but i agree with english being the primary language. people can speak in whatever language they want, but when it comes to the government they should do things in english, unless someday there is an overwhelming majority of spanish speakers. school's should teach english, not spanish, and certainly NOT crap like ebonics.

People seem to misunderstand me on this.

I agree that there should be a language standard, but I do not agree with the destruction of other languages in the process.

[CloudSquallandZidane]

Any group that comes together and holds one race of people in a different light than another doesn't deserve my respect, and both the KKK and the NAACP have this in common. They both see things in terms of race which is sickening to me.

Holds a race in a different light??? I dont understand....

The NAACP is around to unite Black people against what they feel to be any prejudice and injustice. I dont see them holding Blacks up in a different light than any other race. Sometimes you have to see oh, well their being discriminated against because of their race in this situtation, so u can change it and make it right. My point is the NAACP is just there to protect my rights as an African-American Citizen, the kkk is only their to destroy those rights. I'm not saying i always agree with the NAACP because in the past i've thought, man thats riddiculous, but the point is they have the good intention of maintaining my rights, and no side goals.

[Shadow Nexus]

school's should teach english, not spanish, and certainly NOT crap like ebonics.

No. Schools should teach English and a foregin language. I think it's preety sad so many people with university titles only know how to speak English.

I am now communicating in English, yet that is not my mother tounge. However, I can now read Poe, Wihtman, Byron or Shakespeare. By refusing to learn another language you are closing doors to the understanding of a culture. For example, without knowing Spanish you can't read Lorca in his original message, and without reading in Italian you cannot read Dante, and German for Schopenhauer, and French for Baudelaire, and Latin for Virgilius, and Arab for the Koran, etc.

Of course, I am not saying you need to learn new languages now. But denying the teaching of foregin languages in schools is nearly chauvinistic.

[Thunday Man]

I think Bush did the right thing not meeting with the NAACP president. I see the guy as more as a racist than a leader. Not Bush, the NAACP leader.