Miami Beach mayor's Colombian remark prompts calls for resignation

Miami Herald ^ | February 19, 2009 | REBECCA DELLAGLORIA

[ConservativeStatement]

Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower -- the city's first Cuban-American mayor -- has been called out by Miami Republican State Rep. Juan Zapata for a comment she made at a city commission meeting last month referring to Colombians as drug dealers.

Zapata, a Colombian-American who chairs the Miami-Dade legislative delegation, called for Bower's resignation Wednesday. ''Those kind of comments just perpetuate those stereotypes. You don't know the experience Colombians go through, even when they walk through the airport,'' said Zapata.

After having what he described as a ''heartfelt'' conversation with Bower later in the day, Zapata backed down.

''I am willing to retract my call for her resigning if she now uses her position to portray Colombians in a more positive light,'' he said.

[Navy Patriot]

Great, now we're going to have to get a chart to keep track of the proper slurs for the various Latin American cultures.

And me, not knowing a taco bender from a pappas stuffer.

[ConservativeStatement]

[wac3rd]

Muslims commit terrorist acts.

Mexicans come across our borders as illegal immigrants, there are not 20 million white people trying to move foward in Mexican society.

The Amish wear funny clothes and build barns.

40-60% of the world’s cocaine comes from Columbia.

Obama is a Kenyan who has Marxist leanings and associations.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Nancy Pelosi is a common cockroach with the brains of a tortoise.

[ApplegateRanch]

now we're going to have to get a chart to keep track of the proper slurs

Yeah, the good ol' days of only having to know the difference between 'Pachuco' 'Beaner' and 'Greaser' are long gone.

Progress; ain't it wunnerful!

[fieldmarshaldj]

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