Herman Badillo was the first ever US Congressman elected who was born in Puerto Rico. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He has written a book titled “One Nation One Standard - An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups”. After fighting in Congress as a Liberal, he’s doing sometime other Liberals in Congress fail to do. That is to actually look at the effect of Liberal policies and admit they don’t work. In particular he’s addressing the issue of Hispanics’ terrible education performance.

Badillo admits bi-lingual education is failing.

Sure we can say Hispanics have a great work ethic, however that actually applies mainly to first generation immigrants. Their children are not doing well in school. The work ethic is not being reflected in American classrooms. When it comes to good work ethic, most first generation immigrants have it. We just happen to be seeing a lot of Hispanic immigrants.

For clarification’s sake, given some people tend to treat legal and illegal immigrants the same, I must say that my words in this post are not for illegal immigrants. They are law breakers from the moment they enter America illegally and usually their next step is to steal the identity of a legal citizen. Law breakers get no credit from me for being hard working law breakers.

Badillo is sounding the call for Hispanics to start working harder to excel, or they will be a permanent underclass. He’s kind of doing a Bill Cosby, minus all the sex scandal stuff. So you know he’s doing something I feel is a good thing. He once pressed for bi-lingual education in schools, but now sees it is not working.

I have a link to video of his appearance on FoxNews today below. That video starts with him talking about how he proposed bi-lingual education, but it has failed and been abused. He now feels that everyone should be held to the same standard. Now that’s what I call the American way! You can also see other recent video of Badillo’s media tour here.

He says the Hispanic kids need to work to do better in school, or they won’t be able to get a job or get ahead. Hispanics are the largest minority group and Badillo says they have the highest drop out rate and the lowest percentage going to college. That forecast spells doom my friends. Everyone should be praising Badillo for his efforts, but as usual Liberals are all upset.

When speaking of the need for kids to finish school with skills to get a job, Badillo said:

You have to be able once you graduate and hopefully the kids will graduate to get a job…and too many of the Hispanic children end up without even having a High School diploma…

It’s really sad when someone has to speak of people in their own racial group like that. Personally I know his pain and could easily replace most of his words where he says “Hispanic” with “Black”. Although Blacks are obviously doing better in school at the moment, it’s sad to know they have much more work to do in order to excel in America.

Badillo says he wrote the book to bring national attention to the issue. And it’s an issue everyone can learn from. Regardless of someone’s race, we all must press for children to value education and gain skills necessary to take care of themselves and their future children. And speaking of children’s future children, sadly some kids are doing things they should not be doing until marriage and they already have kids. But that relates to another Liberal issue of how they wish to throw condoms at immorality. An issue I’ll reserve for some other post.

See and hear Herman Badillo tell it like it is using the link below.
Former Congressman Herman Badillo on FoxNews talking about Hispanics and education - WMV Video (Size: 3.92 MB)
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