Post by 1949 on Apr 27, 2005 19:52:42 GMT -5
Monday, April 25, 2005
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.
l.a. writers collective
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.
l.a. writers collective