Submitted by Uncle Reality on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 9:09pm.
Life's tough, but it's tougher when you're a whiner instead of a doer. No one CARES if they are working from 4 AM to 8 PM. They came here voluntarily. They work those hours voluntarily....but their school-aged children don't! If my school mate could learn English, and you could learn English, that proves it can be done! If it's "harder," too friggin' bad - they have to work harder.
I assure you that when the millions of Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese immigrants came to the United States in the last half of the Nineteenth Century and first third of the Twentieth Century, we didn't treat them special and have "additional resources" for them. Their children were thrown into the general school population and somehow came to be an integral part of America. My grandfather spoke German at home until the day he died, but five years after arriving here, he could speak, read, and write in English. He had to, to become a citizen.
America didn't start teaching his native language - he learned English. They all learned English and it was entirely up to them...but they did it, gladly!
That's because they wanted to be Americans. Not German-Americans, not Chinese-Americans, they just wanted to be Americans, and be a part of this country.
BTW, nowhere in his speeches or writings will you find Martin Luther King advocating a separate culture existing within the United States, or government spending precious resources on assisting in maintaining that separation. It's the complete antithesis of everything he stood for.
Oh, WAAAH!