Barack Obama Says Your Kids Should Speak Spanish

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Fox Family Values? Fox News' decision to label Michelle Obama as her husband's "baby-mama": isn't it remarkable that a "conservative" news outlet would actually view a married black couple who have brought up two apparently great kids in wedlock as effectively unmarried:

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as one "chiefly in African-American usage" that refers to, "The mother of a man's child, who is not his wife nor (in most cases) his current or exclusive partner."

It's at that point that you suspect that what motivates the conservatives at Fox is not a concern about the black family or a belief that role models of good African-American marriages should be celebrated and supported. It's that the poor state of the black family can be used to marginalize and demonize African-Americans to garner ratings and support Republicans. It's really disgusting, but sadly unsurprising.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/06 /fox-family-valu.htmlFox News Would Like To Take a Moment To Remind You That the Obamas Are As Black As Satan's Festering, Baby-Eating Soul
Back in the day -- you know, when presidential candidates were respectably white -- news organizations called potential First Ladies "wives." But now that black folks are running, we can get all funky fresh with the lingo, yo. So it's basically fine for Fox News to use "Baby Mama" for Michelle Obama, slang that implies a married 44-year-old Princeton-educated lawyer is, to use an Urban Dictionary definition of the term, "some chick you knocked up on accident during a fling who you can't stand but you have to tolerate cuz she got your baby now." Because the Obamas are black! And the blacks, they're all relaxed about that shit, yo. Word up. And anyway, as the caption clearly indicates, it's not Fox News that's calling Michelle Obama "Baby Mama," it's outraged liberals. Fox News is just telling you what those outraged liberals are saying. They didn't want to use the term "Baby Mama." But clearly they had no choice.

Meanwhile, over at her personal site, Michelle "Fox News' Ethnic Shield" Malkin defends Fox News' use of the "Baby Mama" phrase by essentially making two arguments. First, Michelle Obama once called Barack Obama her "baby's daddy," and as we all know, a married woman factually and correctly calling her husband her child's father is exactly the same as a major news organization calling a potential First Lady some chick what got knocked up on a fling. Second, the term "baby-daddy" has gone out into the common culture; heck, even Tom Cruise was called Katie Holmes' baby-daddy, you know, when he impregnated her and she subsequently gave birth while the two were not married, which is exactly like what happened between Michelle and Barack Obama, who were married in 1992 and whose first child was born six years later.

So by Malkin's reasoning it's perfectly fine for Fox News to call Michelle Obama the unmarried mother of Barack Obama's children because an entirely different phrase has to her mind entered the common culture, and there was this one time that Michelle Obama once uttered something that sounded like that entirely different phrase, which is not the phrase that Fox News used. But wait! Malkin also points to someone in her comment thread saying that one time, Michelle Obama actually used the phrase "baby daddy"! No apostrophe! It's in a comment thread, so it must be true. Therefore, Michelle Obama apocryphally using a piece of urban slang makes it perfectly okay for Fox News to use an entirely different piece of urban slang. And that's why, you see, it won't be a problem for Bill O'Reilly to refer to Barack Obama as "my nigga" on the next O'Reilly Factor.

This will keep happening. Fox News will keep finding ways to remind its viewers that the Obamas are black (and possibly Muslim), Michelle Malkin will continue to make excuses for Fox News' dog-whistling racism that expose the fact that she's about as familiar with logical thinking as a rainbow trout is with knitting, and eventually some portion of the Fox News audience will get to the ballot box in November convinced that they're not really racists, they just know that there's something about that Obama boy they just don't like. This is how it will go. Let's not pretend it's not part of equation, this election year.

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[AtlChiTown]

In Europe, Most speak more than one language, for example in Denmark, most people in the world don't speak Danish. So, students over there are taught German, English, and French. The children of Hispanic immigrants speak Spanish and English. While our kids just speak English. I applied for a job, and the job was given to a bilingual immigrant, because at that time I could only speak English. All immigrants should learn English, but Obama is just trying to make our kids competitive in the world.

[dumbovoy]

well you do get paid more if your bilingual

[DarkFenix34512]

@sammicoslt Actually they do have signs and menus in english, espeically near the military bases, He's not saying immigrants don't need to learn english, but he is saying our country to stay competetive needs to become bilingual, soon tri-lingual

[toutbon09]

More foreign language education = more teachers= more jobs = win. Why limit yourself?

[toutbon09]

@1122aalleexx alright troll

[toutbon09]

@dumbovoy you're *

[y291]

I know it may come as a shock to those that do not agree with my views on the subject, but I'm hispanic. I came to this country at 16 yrs of age. Even tho I didn't speak English, I made the effort. My whole family made the effort. All members of my family, in spite of age, learned english and speak it fluently.

When one is a guest in someone's house, you adhere to their rules and customs. Not the other way around.

[y291]

by providing all these services to parts of a community that instead of integrating themselves to the fiber of american society, further segregate themselves by putting minimal or no effort into learning the english language. If you are unfortunate enough to live around border towns you'd be able to see exactly what I'm talking about. For example: During PTAs it is the child who has to translate for the parent, if not it takes a state HIRED linguist.



[y291]

And this is 1 reason, among others, why Barack Hussein Obama needs to go. I don't oppose his view that kids in this country should learn other lanuages. It really opens up opportunities. However, it'd be in no way given as a reason because the vast amount of illegal as well as legal aliens that plain and simple refuse to learn english. I'm tired of seeing countless adds, broadcasts, manuals, etc paid for by our tax dollars. Our government N those of liberal thinking only perpetuate this behavior

[1122aalleexx]

them damn beaners are gonna ruin this country

[sammicoslt]

when you go to Japan, do you see signs or menus in english? no. i think not. English is the Country's language, i agree, speaking another language is useful if you go visit another country, but American's language is English.

[cmccloud19]

I hate not being bilingual. Language is really fascinating. I don't understand this English only crap.