One Nation, One Standard

An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups

Author  Herman Badillo
One Nation, One Standard

Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups.
 
As the nation’s first Puerto Rican–born U.S. congressman, the trailblazing Badillo once supported bilingual education and other government programs he thought would help the Hispanic community. But he came to see that the real path to prosperity, political unity, and the American mainstream is self-reliance, not big government. Now Badillo is a champion of one standard of achievement for all races and ethnicities.
 
In this surprising and controversial manifesto, you will learn:

  • Why Hispanic culture’s trouble with education, democracy, and economics stems from Mother Spain and the…