Huckabee: Hispanics Offer U.S. 'Second Chance'

Newsmax ^ | 12-06-2006 | Newsmax

[Deek1969]

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Wednesday the nation is being given a chance to make up for past racism by the way it handles the influx of Hispanics.

Huckabee, a Republican who is considering a run for president in 2008, said Arkansas has made progress on racial justice and has a fresh opportunity to do the right thing in the way it welcomes the growing Hispanic population

[MrRights]

Oh, just PUKE !!!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

As long as they are legal.

[raybbr]

Second chance? I thought they were the future. The "new Americans".

THE "NEW AMERICAN"..........<

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster

The Path to National Suicide by Lawrence Auster (1990)

An essay on multi-culturalism and immigration.

Click the Pic!!!!

How can we account for this remarkable silence? The answer, as I will try to show, is that when the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 was being considered in Congress, the demographic impact of the bill was misunderstood and downplayed by its sponsors. As a result, the subject of population change was never seriously examined. The lawmakers’ stated intention was that the Act should not radically transform America’s ethnic character; indeed, it was taken for granted by liberals such as Robert Kennedy that it was in the nation’s interest to avoid such a change. But the dramatic ethnic transformation that has actually occurred as a result of the 1965 Act has insensibly led to acceptance of that transformation in the form of a new, multicultural vision of American society. Dominating the media and the schools, ritualistically echoed by every politician, enforced in every public institution, this orthodoxy now forbids public criticism of the new path the country has taken. “We are a nation of immigrants,” we tell ourselves— and the subject is closed. The consequences of this code of silence are bizarre. One can listen to statesmen and philosophers agonize over the multitudinous causes of our decline, and not hear a single word about the massive immigration from the Third World and the resulting social divisions. Opponents of population growth, whose crusade began in the 1960s out of a concern about the growth rate among resident Americans and its effects on the environment and the quality of life, now studiously ignore the question of immigration, which accounts for fully half of our population growth.

This curious inhibition stems, of course, from a paralyzing fear of the charge of “racism.” The very manner in which the issue is framed—as a matter of equal rights and the blessings of diversity on one side, versus “racism” on the other—tends to cut off all rational discourse on the subject. One can only wonder what would happen if the proponents of open immigration allowed the issue to be discussed, not as a moralistic dichotomy, but in terms of its real consequences. Instead of saying: “We believe in the equal and unlimited right of all people to immigrate to the U.S. and enrich our land with their diversity,” what if they said: “We believe in an immigration policy which must result in a staggering increase in our population, a revolution in our culture and way of life, and the gradual submergence of our current population by Hispanic and Caribbean and Asian peoples.” Such frankness would open up an honest debate between those who favor a radical change in America’s ethnic and cultural identity and those who think this nation should preserve its way of life and its predominant, European-American character. That is the actual choice—as distinct from the theoretical choice between “equality” and “racism”—that our nation faces. But the tyranny of silence has prevented the American people from freely making that choice.

[RegulatorCountry]

Oh well, there goes your FIRST and only chance at the presidency, Mike Huckabee, if you ever really had one at all.

[SMM48]

Huckabee, a Republican who is considering a run for president in 2008

Not a chance, Huckabee. Sheesh!

[3AngelaD]

If we are so racist, why do they want to come here? This guy is obviously off his rocker and needs to be removed from office.

[LadyNavyVet]

Even if they're legal, why should any group get special privileges? Huckabee's off my potential vote list for 2008.

[MikeA]

So much for Dick Morris thinking this guy is the GOP's next presidential nominee. Spare me.

[goodnesswins]

We're being eaten alive by our own laws....

[WatchingInAmazement]

the nation is being given a chance to make up for past racism

We have the chance to make up for racism that we had no part in??? Speak for your own white guilt, gov. Racism is a mental illness. Judging on the basis of skin color is just plain STUPID. Giving some group a pass on the same basis is even more STUPID.

Huckabee is an idiot. Giving pass to illegal invaders will some how make up for slavery and bigotry of blacks???Insane.

[MichiganConservative]

They'll ALL be legal if the Dems and Bush get their way and pass an amnesty bil next year.

I read an interesting idea that will never come to pass. Take the 15 million or so illegals and send them to Iraq to work. That would take care of a couple of our problems at once.

It will never happen. We don't really want to fix our problems. Slow cultural and national suicide is our preferred course of action.

[Polyxene]

What kind of whacky-tobacky is ol' Huck smokin'?? Some of Bubba Toon's leftovers??

[MikeA]

Guiliani is our first and likely only chance at the presidency if conservatives will be pragmatic and forward-thinking enough to support him. Short of that, it's President Rodham.

[MrRights]

Just sent him an email. He's done in my book. What is it about ILLEGAL that these people just don't get?

[n230099]

Wheh he lost all that weight he lost any "guts" he had. What a sissy! Earth to the Huckster, Mexican is a Nationality. People from Mexico are Mexicans. Mexicans are of as many cultural, ethnic and racial backgounds as people here. If you don't believe that, I know a blue-eyed blond Mexican you can talk to.

[bigfootbob]

He lost any chance of winning the presidency when his parents kept his last name Huckabee.

He'd also be a food Nazi if he ever obtained a national power position.

[dljordan]

"This guy is obviously off his rocker and needs to be removed from office."

I'd say he's just one of many front men and was given the script. We're being played once again.

[kinghorse]

He is perfect for the job if he's spouting this stuff. This is classic Bush doctrine. The office as presently constituted is anesthesia for the masses.

[wdkeller]

El Presidente