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This Is Alabama. We Speak English.

Tim James is running for governor of Alabama with an English-only platform. “If you don't know English, learn it.” [Ed. Note: Does whatever they speak in Alabama really count as “English?”]

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  • lukeam90 thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Fail  about 5 months ago
  • jamesm26 thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Ew & Old  about 5 months ago
  • gracev thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy, WTF & Fail  about 7 months ago
  • antibeauty thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Fail  about 9 months ago
  • andream17   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s Win  about 9 months ago
  • Michael K. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Ew  about 2 years ago
  • Lila C. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is LOL  about 2 years ago
  • Mock Turtle   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s Ew, Trashy & WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Ashan S. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Ew, Trashy & WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Evan G. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF & Ew  about 2 years ago
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  • bokeystunna thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Sara R. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Amanda thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Rebecca K thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Ew  about 2 years ago
  • Khizir Q. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Dionaea thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • leahleahleah thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Ew, Trashy & OMG  about 2 years ago
  • Lindsay A. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Kerry S. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Ew & WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Vaidotas P. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • sam thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Fran E. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Zayna W. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Bella   This Is Alabama. We Speak English.  about 2 years ago
  • red octagon! what do I do?! fuck! what does this green light mean?! SHIT! wtf does a yellow triangle mean?

    Judge Judy
    2 years ago
  • Mag D thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • shanapiv thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is OMG & LOL  about 2 years ago
  • whivit thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is OMG  about 2 years ago
  • Ashley Gallardo thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • whats going on with Alabama these days!??!?!!!???

    Jesse S.
    2 years ago
  • Jesse S.   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s Trashy, Ew & WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Zachary S.   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Rami K. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Kirsten P. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Amanda B.   This Is Alabama. We Speak English.  about 2 years ago
  • Daniela D. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • THEDert   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s LOL  about 2 years ago
  • Sheri K. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Al thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy, WTF & LOL  about 2 years ago
  • English actually is the official language of Alabama.
    In 1990 89% of Alabama voters approved a constitutional amendment to make English the official language.  Alabama Public Safety returned to offering the test in twelve languages after offering the test only in English was challenged in the courts.  During the case it came out that translations of the test were obtained at NO COST to the department. Also non-English speakers were NOT more accident prone than other drivers and Alabama has always offered special testing to the deaf, the handicapped and the illiterate.  Check it yourself - Sandoval v. Hagan

    moondog
    2 years ago
  • Anne L. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • GRRRRRRRRRRRRR Who the f*%k raises filthy creeps like this? It is SO tiresome and SO disgusting to see these cockroaches STILL crawling out of the woodwork after all this time. WHY are we still living in a country where it's feasible for someone to say something like this in an attempt to win political office. I am tired beyond words of bigoted Republican jerkoffs. I'd like to meet this particular one, but not to say anything to him. There are really no words for what I feel. I want to meet him so that I can vomit in his face. [And yeah, yeah—that's gross and makes me intolerant of bigotry. So what? It's 100% true: Too much rational debate, and not enough vomiting on assholes. Besides, I didn't make a commercial that attempts to victimize other folks for my own political and monetary gain.]

    Bear Beorning
    2 years ago
  • akarreno thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • internettoday thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is LOL & Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is starting to get hot on Facebook Share It  about 2 years ago
  • Kimberly C. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • why doesn't he stop moving? he's always walking, or rocking, or swaying…

    Drwholvr
    2 years ago
  • Kally K. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF & Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Rachel L thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Teamstein   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s WTF & Ew  about 2 years ago
  • Sarrita   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s WTF  about 2 years ago
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  • Kathleen S. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Catherine L.   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s LOL  about 2 years ago
  • fakuse   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Laura K.   This Is Alabama. We Speak English.  about 2 years ago
  • Why didn't he just go with “I'm Tim James. I'm a racist fuck.” It would have received the same response.

    Kelly Holmes
    2 years ago
  • ali van syckle thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Akari R. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy  about 2 years ago
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  • Chad S.   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s WTF, Ew & Trashy  about 2 years ago
  • Annie B. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is Trashy & WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Fucking bigot. You know almost 80% of fellow Americans I've met abroad haven't done a fucking thing to try to learn the country's language. FUCK YOU!

    Abby J.
    2 years ago
  • Abby J.   This Is Alabama. We Speak English. and thinks it’s Trashy & Ew  about 2 years ago
  • Laura M. thinks This Is Alabama. We Speak English. is WTF  about 2 years ago
  • Isn't that the guy from 7th Heaven?

    Dollface
    2 years ago
  • secret juggalo

    thetoaster
    2 years ago
  • Language represents a constraint of Colonialism in many respects. How did the English hold onto their colonies despite being extremely outnumbered by their subjects? Creating trade routes, governments, churchs and schools that operated exclusively using the Queen's English. Power was tied directly to use of language. People who couldn't afford education were/are kept in subservient roles. While it may be annoying to not be able to communicate with everyone or perhaps to feel like an outsider in your own country, demanding that people use one language reinforces this power structure. It inhibits people's potential to contribute to our society, and quite frankly, I think we can do with a little bit of humility and new ideas considering the actions our government has taken in the last decade. I am interested in innovative ideas that do not exclusively cater to oppositional attitudes. Xenophobia is not the answer. Clearly. As an aside: spoken language is not the end all and be all of human communication. Hush, anyone?

    Fiona G.
    2 years ago
  • I've tried to like you, Republicans. I really have, but you're bigots. The lot of you.

    J.
    2 years ago
  • and it makes sense…(checks line)…does it to you?

    vandeom
    2 years ago
  • This is Alabama. We speak English at a 3rd grade level on a good day. LEARN IT! Aww, every time a Conservative politician does something stupid and bigoted to pander to the far right, an angel gets its wings! And Glenn Beck gets a woodie.

    david bowie's mullet
    2 years ago

  • http://www.eji.org/eji/deathpenalty/racialbias [link]

    Also one of the worse states to get busted for pot in,
    LIFE without chance of PAROLE

    berry connell
    2 years ago
  • He's merely saying that in order to get a driver's license Alabama you have to speak English. What the hell is so wrong with requiring that you speak the language that ALL THE FUCKING SIGNS AND SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS ARE CONVEYED IN so that you may PASS the driver's license test? If you are a foreign visitor, use public transportation or get a taxi! That's what they are for and they (some) generate REVENUE! The @#$@#%!!! COST that it takes to satisfy all of the languages that are not conveyed on the signs and other forms of safety communication is astronomical. You bleeding hearts kill me and you are one of the primary reasons why our current tax revenues can’t pay for shit. I started learning Spanish in the 3rd grade and I knew how to speak it before I ever went to Mexico! People don’t want to work for anything anymore. Guess what motherfucker, if you want what America has to offer, if you want the opportunities here, put forth the effort it takes to get it! If I want to do business with a Japanese company, I’ll learn Japanese. If I want to live in Russia, I’ll learn Russian. Are we just suppose to accomodate every language in every capacity??? Is nothing left to the individual's responsibility? WTF ever.

    capitalg
    2 years ago
  • No matter what I speak I have no interest in going anywhere near Alabama.

    WorldCitizen
    2 years ago
  • Oddly, the thing that bothers me most about this commercial is the use of cross-dissolves as he repeatedly steps into frame.

    Peter Rodick
    2 years ago
  • In Alambama they speak Amurican

    Joy V.
    2 years ago
  • …and this isn't a joke? Really?

    mollygos
    2 years ago
  • I couldn't help myself.

    Chelsea G.
    2 years ago

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