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Jeb Bush Speaks of Firsthand Knowledge on Discrimination
NY Times ^ | 7/28/15 | Alan Rappeport

Posted on 07/28/2015 7:38:55 AM PDT by jimbo123

Married to a woman from Mexico and fluent in Spanish, Jeb Bush shares his Hispanic ties proudly. But he has also seen firsthand the painful side of discrimination.

In an interview conducted in Spanish with Telemundo, Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor who is running for president, explained the influence that Hispanic culture has had on his family and opened up about his son’s first brush with racism.

Mr. Bush said that his son, George P. Bush, is “brown-skinned” and that as a child when he traveled from Miami to Ocala to play in a baseball game he was taunted because of it.

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1 posted on 07/28/2015 7:38:55 AM PDT by jimbo123
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...and I got picked on because I had to wear husky jeans growing up.

GHSR with yourself, Jeb. Life is hard.

2 posted on 07/28/2015 7:40:41 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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What a tool.


3 posted on 07/28/2015 7:40:57 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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Jeb Bush discriminated against Ms. Schiavo with prejudice.


4 posted on 07/28/2015 7:41:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Ok Squishy, you are officially one of them. I know they will greet you with open arms (NOT!) as you try to show them how lovable and non threatening privileged white male you are.

Oh how awful, how terrifying, how devastating! Your little brown baby bushey boy was “taunted” at a baseball game in the deep dark redneck KKK land of Ocala Florida.

It is a wonder you and your little brown baby boy and your team of security made it out alive! OMG! What an exciting movie that would be!

Jebby “Bubble Boy” Bush get out of the way. You might get hurt. There are real men at work doing the nasty dirty clean up job that needs to be done.

5 posted on 07/28/2015 7:45:59 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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So his children are pansies, too.

My children are 1/2 Mescalero Apache, born on the reservation. They look fully Mexican, being 1/2 white, 1/2 Apache.

They’ve somehow never had any problems, except they pissed off the Sante Fe liberals by declining some award for being Native American, preferring their National Merit Scholarships they get for being in the top .1% of people who take the SAT (or whatever it is), their track scholarships, and their valedictorian honors that they got by actually being smart and trying hard.


6 posted on 07/28/2015 7:46:04 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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Yeb wants to be the Panderer-in-Chief.


7 posted on 07/28/2015 7:46:31 AM PDT by Starboard
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Mr. Bush said that his son, George P. Bush, is “brown-skinned” and that as a child when he traveled from Miami to Ocala to play in a baseball game he was taunted because of it.
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so what was said to him ???


8 posted on 07/28/2015 7:47:21 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Jose Edwardo Arbusto?


9 posted on 07/28/2015 7:47:53 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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But he has also seen firsthand the painful side of discrimination.

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It caused him to brood around the mansion for a few weeks, but then he felt better after spending time with his father in the White House. Jeb is such a poor disadvantaged soul.


10 posted on 07/28/2015 7:50:16 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Hillary would do this. Heck, Hillary WILL do this.

These two must chew on the same sock. Both will pop up to use discrimination as a gateway to voters— she as a poor, mistreated woman and Jeb as, well, .... Jeb.

How classy, right?


11 posted on 07/28/2015 7:50:31 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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“Mr. Bush said that his son, George P. Bush, is “brown-skinned” and that as a child when he traveled from Miami to Ocala to play in a baseball game he was taunted because of it.”

RIIIGHHHTTTT. Thats about as believable as the bridge someone tried to sell me.


12 posted on 07/28/2015 7:50:32 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Isn’t that cute. Hebbie trying to play the racis’ card just like his buddy Barack.


13 posted on 07/28/2015 7:50:50 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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I was too small to be chosen to play softball, not to mention that I could neither hit nor throw a ball, so each team in school refused to "pick" me to play for their side. The teacher always had to force one or the other team to take me - last!

I've never gotten over that shame and what's worse, I still can't throw, hit nor catch a ball!

People have no idea how crippled the shame has left me. I should have gotten therapy for this painful but was too ashamed to tell any counselor about the pain I feel even today.

14 posted on 07/28/2015 7:51:54 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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“So his children are pansies, too.

My children are 1/2 Mescalero Apache, born on the reservation. They look fully Mexican, being 1/2 white, 1/2 Apache.

They’ve somehow never had any problems, except they pissed off the Sante Fe liberals by declining some award for being Native American, preferring their National Merit Scholarships they get for being in the top .1% of people who take the SAT (or whatever it is), their track scholarships, and their valedictorian honors that they got by actually being smart and trying hard.”

You my friend, are a GREAT AMERICAN!


15 posted on 07/28/2015 7:52:15 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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Oh brother.


16 posted on 07/28/2015 7:52:22 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

I have Cherokee grandchildren..

My favorite turns real brown in the summer and looks beautiful and Cherokee..

In her 13 years of life she has not been “taunted” for her color..

what did the Bush kid say or do to his “tormentors” to cause them to retaliate ???

Act Jebbie ???


17 posted on 07/28/2015 7:52:37 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: bigbob

his first name is John ...that would be Juan...


18 posted on 07/28/2015 7:53:23 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Life sucks get a helmet as Denis Leary would say.

Your son was born on third base and you're acting like he hit a triple. When you're in the position that you and he both are in, you have one rule. Don't eff up too many times.

When you're in the situation I grew up in, I had one major rule. Don't eff up period or you're going to end up at a dead end seasonal job (if I'm lucky) for the rest of my life.

19 posted on 07/28/2015 7:53:30 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Big talk isn't courageous at all. Trump's a bigmouth and a joke. Cruz or Walker have my vote.)
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Whiny liberal with “I'm a victim too” syndrome.
20 posted on 07/28/2015 7:56:09 AM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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