'Speak English' Sign A Crime?

The Cinicinnati Enquirer reports:

There is no evidence that Jim Crow has ever warmed a bar stool or nursed a long neck at the Pleasure Inn tavern in Mason. But to hear the Ohio Civil Rights Commission tell it, Jim Crow is a two-fisted regular who stands in the door with an ax handle to run off anyone who can't speak English.

The commissioners did everything but accuse owner Tom Ullum of being a certified racist because he put a sign in his bar window that said, "For Service Speak English."

On second thought, they did that too. "It's just as effective as a 'whites only' sign," they said, invoking Rosa Parks as if she had been ordered to sit in the back of the bar.

"Go back with me to 1964," said the chairman, Pastor Aaron Wheeler Sr., playing to a crowd of visiting black high school kids. "All I want to do is educate you," he told Ullum, as he compared the sign to a "whites only" hospital he had once seen in Tennessee.

Sometimes you've got to wonder what country this is.Not everyone wants to speak a language other than English.