"Well right there you demonstrate your grasp of history, what can i say .... i know, i'll tell you a story, let's not let any actual facts confuse your mind"
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marcos...
You avoided the questions and failed to point out what "facts" I had wrong. "Lest facts get into your way," Coronado came in the 1500's and English was already spoken in the eastern parts of North America. Your "brown people" fantasy is totally hypocritical when actual history is applied to it - the Spanish colonized the western and southern parts of North America while the English (and French, for a while) had the eastern parts - the indigenous natives of both parts were displaced, along with their languages and cultures.
Yes, I support English as the national language, not to denigrate the hispanics or any other country of origen but to promote a unified nation here in the United States. I fully support the learning of other languages - I studied German and Latin in both high school and college, although I have used them so little since then that I no longer can claim to know them. But having a second language is a far different matter than having an accepted national language, which in the case of the United States has always been English and that should never change. If folks want to make the United States their home, they need to learn English.
We have a large number of hispanics (and a sizable asian population also) living in my area, and for the most part they are hard working and decent folks - and for the most part they are working to learn English, which will make their assimilation into the community far easier for them. They understand that English is necessary to live here.
mlsoft