Jindal Tells CPAC He’s ‘Tired Of Hyphenated Americans’

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Thursday said that the U.S. has a “responsibility” to insist that those who immigrate to America “assimilate” and “integrate.”

“There is nothing wrong with saying, ‘If you want to come to America, you should want to be an American,'” he said in a speech to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington, D.C. “There is nothing wrong with saying that English is our language, and we’re going to teach American exceptionalism to our children in civics.”

“I’m tired of hyphenated Americans,” he continued. “We’re not Indian-Americans or African-Americans or Asian-Americans. We’re all Americans.”

Jindal, an Indian American, also noted earlier in his speech how important it is that children learn about American exceptionalism in history class, hinting at the controversy over the “negative” AP U.S. History exam.

“What would happen if the federal government were defining making standards for how we teach American history to our kids?” Jindal asked while bashing Common Core standards, which currently only cover English and math curriculum. “Under this administration, American history would be all about victimization. It wouldn’t be about American exceptionalism, the way that you and I learned about why this is the greatest country in the history of the world.”

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  1. To be fair, there’s a way to make this argument without being a totally racist fucknugget but, unfortunately for the GOP/Teatrolls, it starts with not being a totally racist fucknugget.

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Yea, and formal portraits of brown people…

  3. Wait, I thought they didn’t like their picture being taken?

  4. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    It;s cool, he never owned a soul.

  5. Lets hear it for manifest destiny revisited!! Idiots!

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