Then we should be criticizing him, as an individual, and not as an entire ethnicity.
I don’t know why you are complaining to me. I broadened the criticism to include other hyphenated Americans beyond just Hispanics.
Because "Hispanics" is a very broad brush, based on ancestry, that has nothing to do with loyalty to the U.S. and includes me.
Under that broad brush, I am "Hispanic" because of my Cuban birth and Spanish surname but I am a retired U.S. Naval officer. My uncle was also Cuban by birth but, when the shiite hit the fan in Vietnam, he was right there at the very beginning at Landing Zone X-Ray at the Battle of Ia Drang and is referenced in seven different pages in the book "We Were Soldiers Once". That was after fighting at the Bay of Pigs.
Why is it O.K. for an American whose ancestors fought at the Alamo or with Hood's Brigade to be proud of his Texas heritage and proud to be a Texan....
...but, if an American of Puerto Rican descent whose ancestor fought in the 65Th Infantry Division is proud of his Puerto Rican heritage or an American of Cuban descent is proud of his family heritage that included shedding blood at both the Bay of Pigs and at Ia Drang, he is considered something less than a full American?
Once upon a time, being an American and being "Irish" (Irish Brigade) or "French" (55th New York Volunteer Infantry "the Lafayette Guard") or "Italian" (39th New York "the Garibaldi Guard") or "Polish" (58th New York "Pulaski Guard") or "Scottish" (79th New York "Highlanders") did not mean you were less of an American. It simply signified where your particular ancestors came from and your own particular ancestral and ethnic heritage.
