« NFL Suppresses Recruitment Ad for the Border Patrol | Main | School Goes Into Lockdown After Batman Sighting »
February 15, 2007
Government Job: Spanish Speakers Only Please
Posted by Dave Blount at February 15, 2007 8:39 AM
One of the many reasons immigrants are well advised to learn English as quickly as possible is that it isn't easy to get a job unless you speak the language. However, moonbattery is turning this on its head, so that speaking the language now means speaking someone else's language rather than our own.
Business student Desirea Certain has had a hard time finding a summer job in Adams County, Colorado because of requirements to "read, write and speak fluently in the Spanish language" — for jobs with the county government.
She certainly isn't happy about it:
I kind of felt like an outsider, like I wasn't in America anymore.
An Adams County bureaucrat explained that the county is 30% Hispanic, and therefore people have to start speaking Spanish, lest immigrants be put to the trouble of learning our language. I wonder if you need to speak Ebonics to get a government job in Detroit.
Let me be the first to predict that speaking English in the USA will one day constitute felony "racism."
Hat tip: Slapstick Politics
