"Multicultural Crap"-MD Gov Stands By Statement

Baltimore Sun ^ | May 13, 2004 | By David Nitkin

[ZULU]

Finally - a politician who has a complete body with spine, guts and gonads.

I hope he runs for President.

[FITZ]

Multiculturalism is an impossibility

It's problem is that is a possibility --- you see it in places like Kosovo. Actually you see it in many war and strife torn countries.

[Red Badger]

Sounds like a future PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE talking..........

[Jimmy Valentine]

Good for the Gov.

Now can we go and dump that dumba** statue of Alex Haley and the Kunte Kinte plaques in Annapolis into the harbor?

Hopeful Regards,

[The G Man]

BRAVO! About time a Republican grew a pair!

[FITZ]

unless we descend into a patchwork of laws

We're seeing a lot of that also --- look how Vicente Fox is demanding a different set of laws for his citizens living here --- they because of ethnic background -- are supposed to be immune from the laws that apply to the rest of us --- no death penalty just because their ancestors left Mexico, no matter how heinous the crime. Some groups aren't prosecuted for failing to report income to pay income tax or pay into Social Security and that is based on where they're from.

[Polybius]

Sometimes the similarities between the US and Rome are frightening, but hey we based our representative form of government on the Republic of Rome.

Hey, don't knock the Roman Republic.

The Roman Republic lasted as a representative government of Rome and its territories from 509 BC until at 44 BC, a period of 465 years, in a very hostile ancient world.

The American Republic needs to last another 237 years before we can claim that we did better than the Roman Republic.

[nicollo]

Ehrlich... probably the most defiant vote I ever cast was for him. He's a classic, and I love the way he's messing with Annapolis over slots and shoving down the throat of PC, enviro-freak Montgomery County the Inter-County Connector. With Guv. Erhlich we might even get another sorely needed bridge over the Potomac. Can't wait to see a bunch of 42-mph, Merc600 driving DC lawyers get their panties ruffled over eminent domain being pulled on certain Potomac, Maryland zip codes.

He also called the Assembly's bluff on slots by labeling their putting it up to a referendum precisely the shifting, testicle-absent cowardice that it is. Initiatives and referendums are blinds for politicians who haven't the guts to do the right thing.

Ehrlich: Marylanders love this guy.

[FITZ]

The other day I saw an immigrant from Mexico conversing with an immigrant from Nigeria and then an American came by and started talking also --- in English --- and that reminded me how the USA came to be the strongest nation in the world. It's too bad that would be a negative to so many of the politically correct today. By speaking English they lost an opportunity to maintain their own separate cultures and identities.

[CatoRenasci]

Of course multiculturalism is crap! Even noted liberal historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. published a book in 1993, The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society saying essentialy that. An updated version was published in 1998. It's a big deal when someone as tied into the 20th century liberal establishment as Schlesinger rejects multiculturalism, but I'll bet you never heard about it or Schlesinger's book on the topic.

[CatoRenasci]

Roman Republic bump!

Every educated person should read Mommsen's History of Rome which is the great classic on the period of Roman history through the end of the Republic. For the Empire, of course, everyone should read Gibbon.

[Enduring Freedom]

The Melting Pot guarantees loyalty to America

[Know your rights]

Adolph Hitler [...] McCarthyism, former Alabama Gov. George Wallace and lynchings.

Ribas scores 4 out of 4 on the smear-o-meter.

[nicollo]

Btw, anybody get just how mind-shattering amazing that is this headline:

"Multicultural Crap" - Maryland Governor"

[Ron in Acreage]

it's all brown

[MrB]

You got it.

"Multiculturalism" is just a "hide behind" word for

anti-American, anti-Western Culture.

[arasina]

Even his critics know he speaks the truth. They just don't like having it exposed. They can get re-elected only by lying to their constituents.

[American_Centurion]

It would be pretty dumb for a guy with Centurion as part of his moniker to knock the Roman Republic.

To clarify the frightening aspects are the ones that led to the downfall of the civilization, more precisely the Empire the Republic came to be.

[bondjamesbond]

Note that the Baltimore Sun went on for a page and a half before they gave the actual Erlich quote...

"Once you get into this multicultural crap, this bunk, that some folks are teaching in our college campuses and other places, you run into a problem," Ehrlich said.

Clearly this quote refers to the ethnic studies and other assorted ... well ... crap that is foisted on minority students during high school and college in lieu of an actual education. In this, the Governor is right on the money.

But it is not the same as criticizing all minorities in general. The "intelligentsia", and I use the term very loosely, does not speak for the people in this case. Most immigrants know that assimilation is important. The professional grievance class is working to hold them back.

I would consider the comments of Comptroller Schaefer, when he used the occasion of a Board of Public Works meeting to bitch about his service by a Hispanic at McDonalds to be much more offensive. But Schaefer is a Democrat, don'tcha know. So he is immune from criticism on such matters.