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Monday, September 3, 2007
'White power' chanted during immigration discussion at school.
BROOMFIELD – It started with a simple question and ended with at least one student chanting "white power" in a classroom. It happened Tuesday in a classroom at Holy Family High School, the Catholic school that sits at the corner of 144th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard in Broomfield. The classroom discussion started with the question: Why do students need to learn Spanish? According to the Archdiocese of Denver, the conversation soon became about immigration and it turned ugly.
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No!!! It did not just happen September 3!! It's been happening for over 200 years. And as long as we continue to showcase negative press - the devil wins.
Even if the white race (were) superior and I am in no way suggesting that, the good Christian should be mindful of the passage from Jesus' own Mouth: "what you do the lest my brothers and sisters, you do to me . . ."
Discriminatory action and racial slurs MUST CEASE if we are to obtain any beneficial peace here on earth and we cannot expect a pass on that one.
What infuriates me, is that now, discrimination is flying from all colors of the spectrum. If people would spend 2% of the time they spend with prejudicial concentration and 98% on reading their Bibles - good relations and compassion would flourish.
As far as the question: "why do students need to learn Spanish?" Well, I will use the medical field as an example: Wouldn't it be life saving if a Spanish couple arrived at the ER with a child in trauma and at least (one) parent knew English? Well the same example can be used here as well: Suppose that (did) happen, and only 2 nurses knew but one language - English - is it right for that child to be placed in the grave because no one knew Spanish but the parents?
No, what I am reading here is quite new actually. When we attended school as children, I can recall French being offered and part of the necessary curriculum. No big deal back then. But since Katrina, there has been an influx of Latino families all over the nation and overkill is hard at work. In the midst of starting a new life in a new country, the Latino people are having to be ridiculed for not speaking English. I ask you, how many Americans' ancestors bothered to learn Choctaw, Cherakee, and the many other Indian languages found at the docking near Plymouth Rock?
Give them time! Allow them to settle down a bit; give then your time and effort and when you think one does not understand - show them - after all Tennessee is quite near Missouri.
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