BLACK ACTIVIST PLANS SPANISH LAWSUITS

By Robert "Rob" Redding Jr.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2006, 10:30 a.m. - A black activist is organizing a wave of class-action workplace lawsuits for people who have lost their jobs because they did not speak Spanish.

"We are going to have a major class-action suit in this country in the workplace," Claud Anderson told a radio host. "You cannot in an English speaking country demand that people speak Spanish."

Anderson said many Latinos who resolve to continue speaking their native language "signifies power" and is meant to make blacks in particular "deal with them on their turf."

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"Any black person that cannot speak Spanish [are] losing jobs in California, Texas and Arizona," he told Joe Madison, the morning show host on XM 169 The Power on Friday.

Anderson - who is also a radio host and author of "Powernomics," a book about how to strengthen black spending power - said he is also concerned about black students, who he said are performing poorly in high schools.

"This is an English speaking country," Anderson said. "It is insulting for people to mandate that black kids learn Spanish when they can't even speak basic English ... You got to learn your own language first."

He is asking anyone who has lost their job due to being forced to learn Spanish to call his Harvest Institute at 202-518-2465.
 

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