More important: does it matter?
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Earlier this week, liberal newser Tom Brokaw set off a firestorm when he dared to say on MTP:
“Hispanic immigrants need to do a better job of assimilating to the United States and teaching their children to speak English.”
The backlash — from the left no less – was fast and brutal.
Brokaw was accused of being a racist (really?) and of being insensitive to immigrants’ culture.
So, Brokaw backpedaled from his statement and apologized
Yipes.
Let’s take a step back and look at some data.
According to a WaPo analysis of Census Dept. data, about 1 in 5 U.S. households don’t speak English at home.
That’s up from 1 in 10 back in the 1980s.
A pretty steep increase that begs a bigger question: does it matter?
