Why Americans get really tired of illegals
My wife and I have been working on a project these past few weeks to create a site providing info about the numerous parks in Tulsa. We've been spending several hours on Sunday afternoon logging the various features of the various parks as well as taking photos. So far we've visited 13 of the 140+ parks in Tulsa.
The last park we visited yesterday was the first we've seen that has it's sign in Spanish, as you can see from the photo (click on the image to see the full sign). I was surprised that they'd have it that way since this is America, not Mexico. But it was an area that supposedly has a high Hispanic population. My wife commented that the other side was probably English. We parked, she got out her clipboard to start noting the features of the park, and I went to get a photo of the English side of the sign. Apparently the "Welcome" the city offered in 
Spanish on one side was greeted with derision and contempt by some of the residents, because the English side of the side was defaced and torn.
That's how the effort by the city to extent a gesture of friendship to the Hispanic community was responded to. As with any population, those who defaced the sign don't represent the majority, but unfortunately, that population (Hispanics) felt no need to address the ugly smear of their group. While a small, loud handful make it look as if all Hispanics want to turn this country into the United States of Mexico, the rest remain quiet, allowing the few to speak for them.
I would suggest that if the Hispanic residents of the area surrounding Ute Park in Tulsa want to denounce the message left by those who defaced the English side of the park's sign, they raise the money to repair it. In the absence of any such gesture, I'd suggest the city of Tulsa, replace both sides, with English versions, and stop trying to accommodate people too ungrateful for what America has to offer to bother learning our language.
Posted by Danny Carlton at September 10, 2007 10:05 AM
Thank you for that episode of CSI Tulsa. Now what evidence are you providing that this damage was in fact perpetrated by someone from the Hispanic community? I find making baseless assumptions about a particular group of people to be harmfully discriminatory and akin to "bearing false witness". Obviously other races do come into contact with the sign (or we wouldn't have this timeless narrative), perhaps further investigation is in order.
If you walk into a men's room and the sign on the door is in braile and in standard English script and you find the standard English script to be defaced, do you assume that it was in fact defaced by a blind person and then advocate that the establishment remove all braile signage, because well obviously they are all a bunch of ingrates.
I recommend that Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" if you need some assistance in dispelling the idea that all of your IMMIGRANT ancestors immediately assimilated and learned English as a primary method of communication. They come here because of lacking opportunities in their homeland (including education), I apologize for all the immigrants that they do not learn English fast enough for you.