Trump's grandfather, Conway's great-grandfather & Miller's great-grandmother could not speak English

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Mon Aug 7, 2017, 12:33 AM - Edit history (1)

when they came to the US.

Tweet frosm Jon Cooper, asking people to retweet:

Link to tweet

RT if you believe that Stephen Miller, Kellyanne Conway and Donald Trump are all loathsome, hypocritical bigots.

See the image with the tweet for the info about those hypocrites' ancestors.



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Editing to add an excerpt from an article in Politico Magazine today:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/trump-history-of-american-immigration-215464

Large numbers of early immigrants arrived in the United States without English-language skills. Even among many Irish newcomers in the mid-19th century, Gaelic, not English, was standard. Studies of second-generation Germans in Wisconsin in 1910 found that roughly one-quarter spoke only German. In Chicago in the 1920s, most movie theaters in ethnic neighborhoods deployed subtitles, as large numbers of first-generation residents could not understand English.

“I spoke not a word of English when I started school,” remembered Jerry Della Femina, who later became an advertising executive in Manhattan. “But then why should I have? Italian was spoken at home. I lived in a claustrophobically Italian neighborhood, everyone I knew spoke only Italian, so it was natural that I didn’t know English.” Della Femina grew up in Brooklyn—not in the 1920s, but in the 1940s and 1950s.

So Stephen Miller got that wrong, too.

[louis c]

1. My Grandmother could only speak Italian from the day she arrived until the day she died

Arrived in 1921 died in 1975.

[lunasun]

2. Yeah but they are white so

[struggle4progress]

3. My grandparents met in a night school English class in the 1920s

[Garrett78]

4. And the only ones bothered by (or even acknowledging) the bigotry/hypocrisy are already anti-Trump.

Trump won't lose a single supporter because of his hypocrisy and bigotry.

[herding cats]

5. Two of my maternal great grand parents could not speak English.

My maternal grandfather's line goes all the way back to the original colonies. Which I admit was quite a shock when I first found out. My grandfather died never knowing his heritage, but I was contacted by a person who had researched our family line.

They all were real American's even though they all were all immigrants to the country and only half spoke English on entry.

[DFW]

6. If Trump's English is any indication

He hasn't make the full progression to fluency over the generations.

Maybe that's why he has trouble getting competent help in finding good PR people to covfefe for him.

[Bladewire]

9. Ha ha ha!

[highplainsdem]

7. I believe that all my ancestors on the non-Brit side of my family arrived here not knowing English.

And I'd guess that was typical of most non-British immigrants in the past.

[onecent]

8. Trump hasn't spoken English since he's been in the whitehouse....

[DFW]

11. Why should he change just because he's in the White House?

His rantings make Bush, Junior, seem like an Oxford professor, and that used to be considered a task even Dr. Strange, Michael Carbonaro or the Wizard of Id would consider too daunting.

[kskiska]

10. My grandfather arrived here in 1905 or so

speaking Hungarian and died in 1949 still not speaking English. He and my grandmother who spoke a heavily-accented English lived in an ethnic neighborhood and dealt with other Hungarian speakers. All their children managed what they couldn't. It was not unusual then.