Posted on 05/07/2013 7:03:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via the Free Beacon. He says he didn’t mean Cruz can’t be defined as Hispanic, just that Cruz shouldn’t be defined exclusively by race. His problem is that he’s saying this against a backdrop of 25 years of liberals accusing Clarence Thomas of being inauthentically black because his politics are right-wing rather than left. And political operatives on both sides understand that if Cruz lands on the ticket in three years, attacks of this sort in ways subtle and not will be thrown at him. Peter Beinart wrote a piece for Newsweek this morning titled “Yes, Democrats Can Be Racist” (really?) chastising Dem Dick Harpootlian for his nasty comment about Nikki Haley, and speculating that that’ll become more frequent on the left as Republicans elect more minorities. True, but the blowback potential from cracks like that guarantees that they’ll be rare-ish. The likelier leftist reaction to GOP diversity, I think, will be to double down on the sort of determinism that Thomas has been demagogued with. You won’t hear people tell Haley to go back where she came from, you’ll hear them tell her that she’s betrayed her race by carrying water for the “white party.” The boss emeritus has been getting that from the left for decades. I think it might get worse before it gets better.
Anyway, enough Richardson. The more interesting Cruz-related clip yesterday came, surprisingly, from James Carville, who was near-rapturous about Cruz’s retail skills. Watch below. I can’t tell if this is Serpenthead paying legit respect to a worthy adversary or some sort of sly briar-patch play where he’s promoting a guy whom he thinks would be easiest for Hillary to beat. Verdict?
Update: After you’re done with these two clips, go watch “Morning Joe” wrestle with the fact that, by their own admission, Harpootlian’s remark about Haley would have been five-alarm news if he was a Republican. That fits nicely with the point I’ve been making lately about Gosnell: The media is more open about its biases than it was 10 years ago. Just don’t expect them to do much about it.
The muzzies have convinced the UN to define the Jihadis as a race. Why not "hispanics" too?
Shouldn't no one be defined exclusively by race. I mean: Don't good taste and commonsense demand that?
Regards,
Wait... The island of Cuba is located on the island of Hispaniola?
Regards,
Guillermo son de Ricardo?
Hey it’s just a guess.
Don’t believe your lying ears!
Well, It’s nearer there than New Mexico, anyways......;^)
Actually Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race or nationality
we need more Eskimos in positions of power
You are mistaken. You might try looking at a,map occasionally. Cuba and Hispaniola are two different islands: Cuba is the largest island, by far, in the Caribbean; the island of Hispaniola lies to Cuba’s southeast. Hispaniola, which was discovered by Columbus, became the property of France and was named the St. Domingue colony. It is now known as two countries, French-speaking Haiti and the larger, Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic.
No, it is not an ethnicity either. It’s like saying that being European is an ethnicity. The descendents of Italians and Germans in Argentina and Uruguay have nothing in common with the half-Indian half Spanish people of Mexico, who in turn have no tie to the Negroes of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
“Hispanic is a nationality, not a race. “
What nation would that be?
Hispanic means Spanish-heritage region of origin - i.e. Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or even Spain. But this includes those who self-identify as being of Mexican (etc.) descent even if they were born in the USA.
So you are right that Hispanic is not a racial identity, but it does not really describe a national identity either.
Since my learning to speak Spanish fluently would not make me Hispanic, I have to conclude being Hispanic is generally-speaking an ethnic/cultural type of identification.
But I also contend that Black is not a race either. Humanity is one race. It is very similar to the categorization of Hispanic as being an ethnic/cultural type of identification. The one difference is that Hispanic is usually associated with Spanish-speaking cultures.
Being defined exclusively by race is a privilege granted only to leftists.
I am missing something here. It is certainly not an insult to be called a hispanic.
Sarah's hubby is a member of a protected group ~ so is she per Thomas' regulations.
Some of these pukes who've gone after Sarah and her kids could probably be sued down to their short hairs!
If you are native born in an area once ruled by the King of Spain you are Hispanic whether you like it or not ~ most of us on this board are actually Hispanic simply because we were born in the United States.
Yes, it’s our fault for being too stupid to understand what you mean.
Say ‘Hi’ to Barack for us.
Per the OMB guidelines located here, hispanic is considered an ethnicity:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_directive_15
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.