(11-28-2017 07:53 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(11-28-2017 03:53 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(11-28-2017 02:39 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  I care about American citizens, not the parasitic horde coming in from other countries destroying the quality of life of my country while providing little to no benefit.

and not speaking English

Too damn bad if you don't like hearing Spanish.

1) The First Amendment doesn't specify a language
2) There is no official language in this country
3) Some states have official languages. Three of them are officially bilingual.
4) For millions of Americans, they didn't cross any border, but rather the border crossed them when the USA took the SW from Mexico. Their forebears were on the land before your family came across the pond.
5) Puerto Ricans were colonized by the USA. To damn bad that you think you made a mistake 120 years later. They're fully American and they don't speak English. Nor do they need to
6) The history of the USA includes that of white people from a European heritage, but also equally includes those that don't come from that background.

So "Marque 1 para Espanol...Press 2 for English" is here to stay. Disfrutelo!

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In response to the term 'parasitic horde", that can most accurately describe the Europeans, who most certainly carried diseases that nearly wiped out the original population. A sad statement about our original history was made by Apartheid era South Africans who responded to complaints about their racist treatment of African natives...."At least we didn't kill off our natives"....

Actually they did. The Europeans and Bantu both moved into southern South Africa about the same time and pretty much wiped out the Khoisan people who had been there for tens of thousands of years. The Bantu had pushed them out of the northern part a few centuries before.