Speaking English is discriminatory?

Letter date:

Friday, January 16, 2015

Letter publisher:

OregonLive.com

Letter author:

Richard F. LaMountain

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On language 'discrimination': The Oregonian recounts former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Edwin Peterson's 1994 report on reputed racial bias in Oregon's judicial system ("The Oregon bar takes a timely look at diversity," Jan. 12):...

Too few lawyers spoke a second language? How does this constitute discrimination?...

All nations need a single, standard means of communication. In America, that linguistic glue is English. To expect immigrants to use English is not "discrimination." It is common sense...

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