English Only?
Script For Live Performance:
The first half will be for the people who do
want America to be English only and then the second half will be about the
people who don't want it to be English only.
Intro Quote:
Markia will stand at a podium or something that
stands up. And read this quote as if it was her saying it.
"We have room for but one flag, the
American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars
against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag
of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here,
and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty
and that is a loyalty to the American people."
-Theodore Roosevelt
1st Video: Pro English-Only Movement Video
Doug and Anna will recite a poem
Poem:
No
hablo ingles
I do not speak English
Is what she told them.
They
stared at her with foreign eyes
As
if she was a (unknown) species.
With
foreign weapons they took hold of her
Then
pushed her aside
All
because she couldn't understand their language.
With
confusion in her mind
And
scorn in her heart
Because
she didn't understand their ways.
Land
of the free
Home
of the brave..
At
least that's what she thought..
Reeled
in by Lady Liberty's fishing hook
Brought
in under the façade (fassssaadd) that everyone may have
The
American Dream.
But
instead of moving forward into the American Dream
She
was pressed into the American Nightmare..
No
hablo ingles
Entonces
no sé que lo dices.
I do not speak English
So I know not what you say
No hablo
ingles
Entonces
no puedo quedarse aquí
I do not
speak English
Therefore I can not stay here
she
can't be in these schools..
she
can't reach the American Dream
If
she can't grow in America's Community
her
lack of Education binds her down
To
become a prisoner in this system.
her
people came here off of the values
America
no longer holds dear.
Lady
Liberty's love replaced by Uncle Sam's greed.
All
of us as humans have our rights
la
vida, la libertad, y la búsqueda de la felicidad
Life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness
Or
was that just another lie.
2nd Video: Anti English-Only Movement
Anna and Markia will recite his last poem to
end it all.
Life
is what you make it
But to make a life with discrimination
Is like making a building
With sticks
Easily toppled with little stability..
People aren't always understood
Not because of their language
But because of their culture.
The origin of people
Etched in stone on the pages in books of history
Told by word of mouth
But the language in which their stories are told
Is being restricted by those who call this
The land of the free
