Nashville voters reject English-Only
You can imagine how good I feel. I’ll leave it at that.
“About 10 percent of Nashville’s nearly 600,000 people speak a language other than English in their homes, according to census data. The city is 5 percent Hispanic and home to the nation’s largest Kurdish community and refugees from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.” — from AP
I saw a couple of tweets about it and came over to see what you had written. Good news! :)
It is fabulous news. Thanks for speaking out so loudly and beautifully against it, Carrie!
Congratulations Carrie!
I know you worked very hard on this.
Maybe now, you can encourage the creation of some type of non-profit translation/interpretation service organization where all those qualified to interprest/translate in Arabic, French, Spanish, Chinese, etc. can volunteer their services, so that there’s no longer an excuse of government cost ($$$$) on behalf of those who were for “English Only” …
I think I read somewhere that it costs more than $100,000/year to the local government to pay for interpreters … if that money is no longer needed for translation purposes,they can redirect all that funds to other much needed community programs, etc.
I wish you well :) Melek
“No man has a right in America to treat any other man “tolerantly” for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.” ~ Wendell L. Willkie
Yeah! Alright! And we move forward!
Carrie,
I think you should start calling yourself “The Voice of Nashville.”
Congratulations! It’s a victory for all of us.
Besos,
Marta
It’s a shiny, happy time in Nashville, for sure.
Melek, there already is a wonderful non-profit language service here, but maybe the English-Only folks can further run with the idea.
Me, I am resting from political involvement until the next big boberia.
i kinda found it interesting that out of 600,000 people only about 80,000 or so actually cared enough to vote period…hrrmmmm…kinda shows what a “big deal” this was. way to waste $350K, crap-ton!
Just dropping by to say, that is GREAT news. These initiatives never make any sense to me and are purely exclusionary.
¡Felicidades! for all your hard work, too.