Who Cares How Many Immigrants Come In?

Saturday night my wife and I attended a baby shower at a catering hall over in the next town. There were 75 or 80 guests at the shower, we were the only two who weren’t Hispanics, as far as I could tell.

The other guests were from Dominica or some other Lartin country to the South. Many of them had been born prior to coming to the United States although the little kids running around were obviously born here.

Everyone in the room was connected to one another in some kind of family or community way. They all knew each other, they all seemed to be happy spending an evening with family and friends.

The adult population was also entirely bi-lingual, and I heard most of the guests switching back and forth between English and Spanish numerous times.

I started thinking about when Newt Gingrich tried to make English the ‘official’ language back in 1994. I should have known then that sooner or later we would wind up with a racist piece of shit like Donald Trump. Because the truth is that speaking more than one language is a way to open your mind to different cultures, different ideas, different traditions — in other words, all the intellectual and social beliefs and thoughts that racists like Gingrich and Trump don’t want you to have.