Raul Labrador Schools Meet the Press Panel on King's Dream: Your Message is Despair Not Hope

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An absolutely spectacular thing happened on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday.

After host David Gregory and his liberal panelists talked about Martin Luther King Jr's dream having not yet been realized, and how tough it is for minorities to succeed in America, Puerto Rican immigrant Congressman Raul Labrador (R-Id.) scolded them all saying, "It saddens me actually to hear some of the things that I'm hearing here, because I think the American dream is alive...What I've been hearing from your panelists is not a message of hope. It's a message of despair"

 

REPRESENTATIVE RAUL LABRADOR (R-IDAHO): It saddens me actually to hear some of the things that I'm hearing here, because I think the American dream is alive. I was born four years after the March on Washington. I was born to a single mother who lost her job because she got pregnant by me, who decided to give me life. But the most important thing that she decided is that she was going to give me a good life.

 

I didn't go to military school when I was a young man because my mother was rich. I went to military school because she decided to sacrifice. She decided to go without some things in her life so she could put me in a military school. Then she couldn't afford that anymore, so she put me in another private school, and eventually, when she wanted to move to the mainland, she decided to put me in a bilingual school because she thought that the only way I would be successful in life is by gaining an education, by being better educated, by learning English.

 

I remember when we moved to the United States, she told me something that was so significant in my life. She said, "In private, we can speak Spanish. But when you're in public, you need to speak English because I want you to speak English to the best of your ability." These are things that she thought about.

 

 

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"I remember when we moved to the United States, she told me something that was so significant in my life. She said, "In private, we can speak Spanish. But when you're in public, you need to speak English because I want you to speak English to the best of your ability." These are things that she thought about."

 

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Can you imagine little Jesse Jackson, Jr being told this by his old man, the Reverend Jackson:

 

"Jesse, [your grandmother] told me something that was so significant in my life.

 

She said, 'In private, we can speak black English. But when you're in public, you need to speak English because I want you to speak English to the best of your ability.'

 

These are things that she thought about."