???
Vega is an American, born in Texas, with a law-enforcement background.
I think his point is....She’s an AMERICAN.
Yes, she’s of hispanic heritage.
but.........She’s an AMERICAN.
I have to agree, it sure would be nice to get away from the ‘identity politics’ in all its forms.
President Teddy Roosevelt rejected the notion, and in a 1915 speech before a Catholic audience said “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad…The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”