Please help - just rcvd that racist filth chain letter. Didn't some DUer have a great retort?

"I'm sorry, but after hearing they want
to sing OUR National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough!
Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Japanese, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German, Portuguese, Greek, French, or any other language because of immigration.
It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation - not even close. Sorry if this offends anyone, but this is MY COUNTRY - IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY, SPEAK UP!
I am not against immigration - just come through like everyone else
Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes; live by the rules;
and LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Think about this:
If you don't want to forward this
for fear of offending someone,
YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

Will we still be the Country of choice
and still be America if we continue
to make the changes forced on us by
people from other countries who came
to live in America because it is the
Country of Choice? "

now, learn to speak Cherokee.

I like that :)

I like to point out that most of the Hispanic immigrants in this country are of Native American blood, at least partially. Therefore they aren't immigrants, they just decided to "Take their country back".

"Hey man, we didn't cross the border... the border crossed us!"

so true.

... although I'd be tempted to respond with something like: "Some bigot at work sent me this same e-mail a while back."

On Friday, President Bush blasted the idea of singing the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish. But Bush’s highly-scripted 2001 inaugural ceremony actually featured a rendition of the national anthem sung in Spanish by Jon Secada. From Cox News Service, 1/18/01:

The opening ceremony reflected that sentiment. A racially diverse string of famous and once famous performers entertained Bush, soon-to-be First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President-elect Richard B. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, who watched on stage from a special viewing area.


Apparently, Secada singing the anthem in Spanish was a regular feature of the Bush campaign. From the 8/3/00 Miami Herald:

The nominee, his wife Laura, erstwhile rival John McCain and his wife Cindy joined Bush on a platform where children sang the national anthem - in “Spanglish,” Secada explained.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/02/national-anthem-sun...

segued into yours!

Nice touch - using the chimperor against his sheep!

thank you DUers!

:toast:

and for heaven's sake don't tell him about Saint Patrick's Battalion, or they'll start shooting up Britannic-style pubs and Patty's Day Parades

He said:

If you are in downtown Saint Deigo, drive north on the 5, past the Drawer, past Saint Onofre. You will see Avenue of the Fleas, just keep going. Past Nigel's Lagoon, past Crown of the Sea, past Saint Anna and soon you will be in The Angels.

(since he refuses to speak spanish)