Tom Tancredo: “It is a Sense of Congress that all children graduating from any school in this country should be able to articulate an…”

“It is a Sense of Congress that all children graduating from any school in this country should be able to articulate an appreciation for Western civilization, and I was astounded by the reaction I got. I mean, first of all, the NEA, the National Education Association, of course, they came unglued. How dare I suggest such a thing? How dare I? We get e-mails from people who have seen it, and it is the same thing. In fact, an article that was in a newspaper, a Houston Chronicle article written by two individuals co-authored it, they were vilifying me and also an author by the name of Samuel Huntington for writing a book in which he brings this issue out. They said, ``What is so good about assimilation any way?'' That was their way of addressing it. ``Why should we assimilate into your society?'' These are supposedly Americans.”