Gingrich Called Spanish ‘Ghetto’ Language
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 18th, 2011 5:47 am by HL
Gingrich Called Spanish ‘Ghetto’ Language
A rival presidential campaign is sharing video of a 2007 speech in which Newt Gingrich told the National Federation of Republican Women that Spanish is “the language of living in a ghetto.” Gingrich made the remarks in an address where he criticized bilingual education and requirements that states make ballots available in several languages. Gingrich said children should be taught “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English … so they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”