Where do you see special privileges in the article?
"...the nation is being given a chance to make up for past racism..."
That sounds to me like a call for Affirmative Action for Hispanics.
As to special privileges; there is an insane collision in this nation between public policies of racial/ethnic preferences and the large-scale immigration of those eligible for them.
Do you think a white guilt-ridden person like Huckabee would support the attempts to end such preferences? I don't. Its much more likely that he'd be like the GOP establishment in Michigan, which was outright hostile to the anti-preferences ballot initiative that easily passed in November.