Stop The Hate And Bigotry

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, but I am hearing the bigotry and hate that the Coke Cola ad has created over the singing of America the Beautiful in multi-languages.

Time said in an article by James Poniewozik that,

The xenophobic protesters had one thing right: we do speak English in America. We speak it on official business and in Super Bowl broadcasts; we use it in publications like this one.

But that’s not all we do. People like my immigrant mother and her immigrant sisters learn English as adults and raise their kids to speak it, and also speak French and Arabic at family get-togethers and on phone calls. We speak English in school and Spanish with grandparents and Spanglish with friends. We speak Creole and Chinese and Tagalog sitting down to family dinners–maybe with a bottle or two of Coke around the table, which is why Coke is smart to recognize this.

We come to America, in other words, and we become American–but we don’t erase everything else that we were before, we don’t forget our cultures and languages as if they never existed, and we don’t hide them as if they’re shameful or less than patriotic. We bring them out and share them, and they make this country better and stronger. America isn’t weakened because people don’t submit to a monoculture; it’s strong because it can absorb the peoples and aspirations and talents of the rest of the world without erasing their cultures.

English was not the first language spoken here; the native people were here long before the European settlers arrived. Spanish was the first European language that was spoken here, followed by in close order French, Russian and English. Florida and much of the southwest was settled by the Spanish, just look at the names of the cites in those sections of the country and you can see the Spanish influence. The northern and central part of the United States was settled by the French and creole is still spoken in many areas there and Alaska was settled by the Russians. All of us except for the native people all came from another continent, we all brought our native languages and cultures with us so let us celebrate our diversity and revel in the multicultural beauty that is uniquely American.

Let us stop the hate and bigotry.

Update 2/4/14 4:35PM
Here is a video of a newswoman who replies to conservative complaints about Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad, Brenda Wood from WXIA in Atlanta destroys conservative myths about multiculturalism in America.