“Sometimes intentionally, sometimes not, the talkers have stirred up anti-Hispanic racism and certainly anti-immigrant nativism.”
The only “talkers” that made this a racist issue were the supporters of the bill. As Brit Hume so aptly put it on Fox News Sunday last week (paraphrased), “....I didn’t see the words Hispanic, latino etc., on the radio and websites. The word I saw most was ILLEGAL.”
The feeble attempt to make this some sort of “latinophobe” issue was a red herring that liberals use to put their opponents on the defensive when the libs have no argument.
That was what those idiots tried to do. Everybody knows someone with some dialect of Spanish or Portuguese that is a naturalized citizen. Those are the people that got really worked up the most. Trust me on this point.
They have watched this kind of shit in the countries they left and have a low tolerance for it in their adopted country. Venceremos will not happen here. They will place the mines on the border if necessary.