The United States should be working to promote and to develop our diverse language abilities. By encouraging our children to speak their native languages, we are preparing them to enter into dialogues with those in the U.S. and abroad. English-only advocates are threatened by change. They argue that the din of foreign languages threatens our sense of national identity. Indeed, I believe they are the voice of exclusion and divisionism that is truly un-American.
Discrimination based on language is as strong and as abhorrent as discrimination based on race.
Yes, let's promote English - but let us not divide America.