Posted on 10/19/2010 11:39:16 AM PDT by RC Clayton
Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle, perhaps in an attempt to prove she's color-blind, instead may have ended up insulting some Hispanic high school students by apparently not being able to distinguish between them and Asians.
The remarks were made last week during a discussion about her campaign ads that focus on illegal immigration.
In audio recordings released by The Associated Press and Nevada newspapers, Angle can be heard defending those ads, even suggesting they're focused on the threat posed by the United States' "porous" northern border with Canada.
Asked why she features images of Latinos in her ads, Angle said she's "not sure" they are Latinos. Then she explained she's not sure about the students' ethnic background either.
"So that's what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don't know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don't know that," Angle said at the meeting, which was organized by the high school's Hispanic Student Union.
At this point, grumbling could be heard in the crowd, and one woman muttered: "I hate this lady." Angle went on to say that the country is "a melting pot."
"My grandchildren are evidence of that. I'm evidence of that. I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly ," she said.
Angle's grandchildren are half-Hispanic, but according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, an Angle campaign spokesman told the newspaper that a reporter once mistakenly described her as Asian.
The spokesman told the Review-Journal that Angle was trying to make a point about how "this country is a melting pot and you cannot judge people based on stereotypes or the way they look."
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See post 15.
“Because the MSM will use this incident to bash Angle at a most crucial time in the campaign while running interference for Reid.”
Just as you are doing. After all, it is a crucial time in the campaign, and you are posting these threads.
See post 20.
The desperate pre-election sign-up crop of journOlist-types appears in droves.
They agree with us...BUT....!
He/she/it BUTT will be gone before they know what hit them.
Can you say a kitty claw?
American Hispanics share a common ancestral DNA.
The Asians/Indians migrated from China to Alaska(Bering Straits).
Their DNA is even similar.
Angle = vote to lower taxes, repeal obamacare, fight illegal immigration
Reid = the opposite
tune out everything else and vote Nov 2
Threads that he/she/it doesn't care to answer FReepers' comments!
Unfortunately, the truth has no place in today’s ethno-politics.
Angle’s comment isn’t going to change anybody’s vote. MSNBC repeated her remark ad nauseum simply because they have nothing else. They certainly can’t honestly say anything positive against Reid, so they’re stuck with whining like this. The fact that you show such concern about such a trivial thing, plus your claim that O’Donnell can’t win, make me suspicious of your motives.
You support Castle, nuff said.
Oh she’s going to lose because some hispanics look as much Asian as hispanic. Riiiiiight. If so, then NV deserves the trash they get. Only we don’t deserve his influence, here in the rest of the country.
I supported Castle in the primary. I now support Christine O’Donnell as she is the Republican nominee though I doubt she will win in a blue state like Delaware.
Unlike you, I can’t see that she said anything wrong.
“I think our country is better off without such hypersensitive people. People get mistaken for all sorts of things. They need to get over it already.”
That’s right.
I only fault her for undertaking to defend that which needed no defense.
I think she should have gone on the attack.
She could have started by asking those low-grade morons how many blond-haired, blue-eyed nordics snuck in from Finland and Norway in the last ten years, and finished up by telling them to jump on their burros and ride for another country if they don’t like how we do things here.
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