No one could have predicted that saying something like this might raise a few eyebrows:
“Hispanic polls, Hispanic surveys, indicate that Hispanics think just like everyone else. We’re not like African-Americans. We think just like everybody else. When I was on the leader’s staff, someone called me once and asked me: ‘What’s Senator Frist’s Hispanic agenda?’ I said, ‘low taxes, better education, more jobs … what are you talking about?’ And that’s how Hispanics are. This is an opportunity to educate them on all of our issues and they will resonate in the way that they resonate with everyone else.”This quote brought to you by Manny Miranda, the chairman of the Third Branch Conference and the author of a letter that has asked Senate Republicans to consider a “Democratic filibuster” against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
As Adam Serwer said:
What does it mean that Latinos are ‘not like African-Americans’ because they ‘think like everyone else’? I’m interested to hear Miranda’s explanation of the cognitive differences between black people and the rest of America.
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"thinking like everybody else" is overrated. the article illustrates this nicely. lol.
This is an example of the new bigots keeping their bigotry “soft.” Reminds me of the new ,softer KKK that has appeared recently on the net, same old crap, but with a lot of “politically correct nonsense words added.