Tom Brokaw thinks Spanish speaking immigrants should “work harder”… to assimilate.
Racists who believe this nonsense reallly shouldn’t be on TV during hours when children can see them... if at all. If it were up to me, the only place one could watch people like Brokaw would be on the Dark Web. I reckon his poison is far more dangerous than a lot of the stuff you’d find there.
Here’s Brokaw:
”It’s the intermarriage that is going on and the cultures that are conflicting with each other,” Brokaw went on. “I also happen to believe that the Hispanics should work harder at assimilation. That’s one of the things I’ve been saying for a long time. You know, they ought not to be just codified in their communities but make sure that all their kids are learning to speak English”
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So, a few thoughts. First, Spanish speaking immigrants already assimilated. That’s why they speak Spanish instead of Mayan. Asshole.
Second, the children of Spanish speaking immigrants speak English. That isn’t an issue, they learn it very quickly if they didn’t already know it. They speak better English than the stuff I heard in rural Kentucky on charity relief trips growing up, that’s for hella sure. This is just Brokaw repeating nonsense from racists because he’s too lazy and racist to bother talking to any of the kids he’s slandering.
Third, why don’t white people assimilate? You first, Brokaw. Put your brain where your mouth is. Many white people in the Southwest learn Spanish because frankly the Spanish speaking people immigrating back to North America were here first, until our ancestors committed genocide. And we have some respect.
And finally, who cares what racists in Wyoming and Montana think about brown grandbabies? Nobody with a valid opinion, that’s who. There’s no culture clash between my family and the Spanish speaking family down the street who’s kids do the translating. Zero. I have my culture, they have theirs and it’s cool like that. So what’s Brokaw’s excuse? (hint: racism isn’t an excuse).
It’s long past time to stop letting willingly ignorant racists be a part of the televised debate on immigration. They aren’t operating in good faith and they simply haven’t earned a seat at the table.
Tom Brokaw and racists like him are poison. They don’t belong in any venue where Americans can be poisoned by their vile wolf in sheep’s clothing brand of white supremacist beliefs.