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Curtis Mendenhall
Burley, ID City Council
If I may, I'd like to respond to that. I am color-blind, as far as that goes. I told the story earlier that as I was growing up, we lived in a black community. I had a good friend, student body president in fact. I used to bring him home just to make my Dad mad. It finally took him years and years and years to get over that, but he's okay. What I was probably trying to say was, keep your cultures; I want to know about your cultures. But, as far as your color, whether you're black, white, yellow, red, or green, it doesn't make any difference to me. Your cultures do. I lived in Scandinavia for three years and had to learn three different languages. I know what it's like. And if we don't work with education to make foreign languages required, then we're losing out. Please don't get me wrong. I am color-blind to that. I admit that. I don't care whether you're Mexican, white, Spanish - I don't care. But I do care about your culture.
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