Now the guys over at MSNBC - those are real Hispanics (snark)
Posted on 02/10/2015 12:35:30 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has fired back at a recent New York Times op-ed that questioned whether he was authentically Hispanic, and conservative Hispanics are pointing to it as yet another example of the media’s malpractice when it comes to covering issues of politics and ethnicity.
The op-ed by Ann Louise Bardach, titled “Why Are Cubans So Special?”, was sharply critical of the Cuba policy supported by Cruz, and his fellow Cuban colleagues in the Senate, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey). Dismissing the Senators as “second-generation white Cuban exiles” — as opposed to the “the overwhelming majority of Latinos in the United States, who are of mixed race or indigenous descent” — Bardach mocks Cruz for not being fluent in Spanish and says that he “has been called as Hispanic ‘as Tom Cruise.’”
Cruz’s communications director, Amanda Carpenter, responded with a letter to the editor. In it, Carpenter wrote, “Your decision to allow an Op-Ed writer to openly mock a person’s ethnicity — as Ann Louise Bardach did when she wrote that Senator Ted Cruz ‘has been called as Hispanic as Tom Cruise’ — is saddening.”
“She was using the comment to bludgeon Mr. Cruz’s principled policy positions regarding United States-Cuba relations,” continued Carpenter, “suggesting that, if he disagrees with her, Mr. Cruz is not truly Cuban — despite his father’s having been imprisoned and tortured in Cuba, and coming to America penniless.”
New Jersey attorney Sam Rosado shared his frustrations with this attitude. “I can relate so easily to that,” Rosado, who is Puerto Rican, told Breitbart Texas. “That my identity is diminished based upon superficial factors, never mind that my parents are born and raised in Puerto Rico, that I grew up in the culture, and that’s how I identify myself, because I don’t speak Spanish fluently
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NYT: Proven Racists.
If only the NYTimes went even this hard after Obama in 2007.
As Hispanic as “Bill Richardson?”
This, from the same people who said Bill Clinton was the first Black President.
The sliming has begun. The left has begun destroying any potential Republican candidate.
The election will be 22 months in the future. We are going to have to put up with 22 months of this garbage.
If you aren’t poor, ignorant, and in need of government handouts, you can’t be a real Hispanic.
The Cruzer is a bad @ss.
He’s not going to get torched like Palin, he’s just way too smart.
He’s not my #1 pick for 2016, but I’m willing to cheer him on.
Fortunately there is no Univision debate in 2016.
No, just another shining example of the left's tolerance they so love to espouse.
If Ted Cruz, “self-identified” as a vaginaless woman he would be hailed as a courageous activist fighting for equality.
Now the guys over at MSNBC - those are real Hispanics (snark)
NYT has no problem calling the Magic Marxist Mombasa Mulatto a “Black Man.” Or Geraldo Rivera a “Puerto Rican.”
I’m thinking if the NYT doesn’t like Cruz theirs something to be said for voting for the guy.
But they think Elizabeth Warren is an Indian.
The Indians in Cuba that didn’t die under Spanish hands were pretty much absorbed by interbreeding with those
Spaniards, just like Indians in the Americas and some the black slaves that were brought there. Spaniards come in varying shades-always have depending on what area of Spain they came from.
Cubans are mostly of mixed ethnicity, just like those of us here in the SW. How much European coloring we have is just a matter of genetics-like most of my family, I’m medium light-some of us are darker, some lighter, and like several others, I have red hair. My Basque antecedents have lived in the SW since the late 1700’s, and we are certainly meztizos. Most of us speak Spanish as a second language. The Cuban Americans I know are no different, except that the Spanish dialect they speak in Florida is rather different from the one we speak here...
He’s as Hispanic as Penelope Cruz, though.....................
BUT not one drop of the Black blood in the veins of President Obama is linked to the black suffering in the cotton fields of Alabama.
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