Monday, April 02, 2007

Georgia - the good times keep coming...

Erik usually deals with material on Georgian racism. However, I'd like to add the latest item in the rich "legacy" of Georgia's racism in the wake of this, this, this, and this. Over the weekend, Georgia citizen Newt Gingrich commented that bi-lingualism, particularly Spanish, in the U.S. was the "language of living in a ghetto". I presume that he's not actually referring to a Jewish ghetto in Eastern Europe from World War II, but instead to the poor, inner-city, predominantly African-American neighborhoods in the United States (though I imagine he's spent as much time in the African-American ghettos as he has in the Jewish ghettos of Nazi Europe). Thus, he manages to single-handedly and racistly deride both Spanish and African-American languages and cultures.