Posted on 08/02/2015 7:40:54 PM PDT by jimbo123
Unlike 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, who has condemned Latino immigrants, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has taken a starkly different approach in his presidential campaign by actively trying to reach out and embrace the Latino community.
In an interview with Telemundo, Bush opened up about the discrimination that his half-Hispanic son, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, experienced as a child due to his olive complexion. According to the 2016 hopeful, who is fluent in Spanish and married to a Mexican woman named Columba, his son faced teasing because of his skin color.
"I know your three sons are bilingual. Were there times when they were younger where they were targeted either because of the color of their skin or their accent?" Telemundo's José Diaz-Balart asked the former Florida governor, according to The Miami Herald. "And as a father how did you talk to them when they would tell you that they were laughed at because of their accent or the color of their skin?"
"I remember there was a time when my son went to Ocala to play baseball, a game on a team. And the team was a Miami team, the majority were Hispanics. My son George, he's dark-skinned," said Bush while speaking in Spanish during a visit to Puerto Rico. "And they spoke horrible things about those from Miami. And naturally I had to explain or describe that people who hate are not the majority, and we just accept them and move forward. Because he was quite upset. Because he and his friends never -- since we live in Miami, we don't have a problem. But in other parts of the country, it exists."
"It's a good lesson to learn, to always remember that we still don't have a country that's full justice for all,"
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bull poop.
Jeb Bush (R-Pander)
He’s a gigantic Pander Bear.
And then they got all these minority scholarships and quotas.
You whities don’t know what you are missing.
The most racist people against “Hispanics” are other “Hispanics”
Poor victim bush.
He was paid millions of dollars to be a consultant to do nothing because of his last name. The poor idiot has got is so bad.
more he talks, the worse jeb sounds.
My kids are olive skinned and bronze after time in the sun. I suppose the difference is their proper acclimation to American culture and perfect English.
FUJB!
Well I certainly hope the little faggot didn’t defend himself in any way whatsoever!
Just like the POS family he came from just rolls over at every opportunity
I think you have an image that is appropriate here.
This clown should just go away.
C'mon, Jeb. So your dad once referred to George P. as "the little brown one". Get over it, already.
Who discriminates against him his caddy at the country club or the stewardess on his private jet?
Reminds of the sort of little personal anecdote Slick Willie and Hillary and Obama like to tell now and then to relate more closely to their audience.
For me, the reasons ran the whole course from being skinny, poor at sports (guess what? I practiced and got way better), having a funny sounding last name, a different religion, being shy, my father's occupation, etc., etc.
Guess what? Most of us adapted, grew up and got over it. Some of us even thrived. In the end, I got elected student body president and graduated 14th in class of 144.
Others gave up, turned to drugs, alcohol and bed wetting liberalism.
Because of his accent? Excuse me, they live in and are citizens of the United States, but Jeb has said that his family speak Spanish in the home. Doesn’t this suggest that he and his wife created the problems their son supposedly encountered? I think it does.
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