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After sending many signals to Latinos in his campaign, Trump sends another: Not in my Cabinet
The Los Angeles Slimes ^ | January 20, 2017 | Cathleen Decker [Fretting Profusely]

Posted on 01/20/2017 3:24:13 AM PST by Navy Patriot

Republican and Democratic presidents have long nodded to the importance of diversity as they select their Cabinets. Since 1989, every president’s first Cabinet has included at least one Latino.

Not Donald Trump’s.

After a campaign in which relations with Latinos grew painfully raw, the sort of tension that typically would make reaching out imperative, Trump selected a Cabinet that is predominantly white and male. The only members who break from that description, out of 15 positions, are an African American man, one Asian American woman and a white woman.

The absence struck many Latinos as a fresh slap after a season of insults. Trump opened his campaign by asserting that some Mexican immigrants were rapists and murderers and spent much of his time promising to deport Latinos in the country without proper papers, a group that comprises millions of people and affects millions more. He had no high-profile Latino campaign surrogates or staff members.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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I dont't got to show you no steenking green card!

1 posted on 01/20/2017 3:24:13 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

This ho has a lot of gall. She knows her damn comrades on the left will never allow a Hispanic get through the process and into Trump’s cabinet. We already saw that with Bush’s Hispanic nominees. Commie b*tch.


2 posted on 01/20/2017 3:28:47 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Navy Patriot

Most Latinos didn’t know and didn’t care.


3 posted on 01/20/2017 3:28:52 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: Navy Patriot

Awsome. No more jellybeans. Merit first.

P.S. Bernie:
Scientific consensus once had the sun orbiting the earth.


4 posted on 01/20/2017 3:28:59 AM PST by dasboot (GOV POLICY: From each according to our needs; to each according to our needs.)
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To: Navy Patriot

These rubes just won’t get it. If a person who just happened to be of Hispanic descent was the best person for the job, he/she would have been there too. Its as simple as that.


5 posted on 01/20/2017 3:30:31 AM PST by mazda77
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To: Navy Patriot

Another Racist comment by liberals. They don’t even realize how racist they are.

In their view a person should be part of the President’s cabinet based on the color of their skin, instead of the person’s capabilities and skills.

What? an Asian and a Hindu and a Black was not good enough for them?


6 posted on 01/20/2017 3:32:38 AM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: Navy Patriot

He has Indians and women


7 posted on 01/20/2017 3:32:48 AM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: Toughluck_freeper

Quotas and tokenism are how the Dems operate. Forget merit. Identity politics reign supreme. It is how we got Obama.


8 posted on 01/20/2017 3:39:20 AM PST by kabar
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To: Navy Patriot

Hell, let’s break it further down since women, hispanics and minorities think they’re the only groups in the world.

How many of Irish descent? Italian? Jewish? Polish? German? Trace their roots back to England?

Who gives a ####. We’re all HERE now.

I was HEARTBROKEN when Rudy didn’t get picked.

But I got over it fast. It would have been nice but we are AMERICANS. Even if we still kind of group with other of the same culture.


9 posted on 01/20/2017 3:41:20 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Navy Patriot

What a pack of loser idiots. Their metric is skin color - the last refuge of racist idiots.


10 posted on 01/20/2017 3:44:16 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Navy Patriot

The LA Times can’t judge cabinet nominees by the content of their character.


11 posted on 01/20/2017 3:46:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Navy Patriot

As if Trump said to his people, no Latinos allowed.

Silliness abounds.


12 posted on 01/20/2017 3:47:21 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: Navy Patriot

I wouldn’t care if the entire cabinet were 100% Black, 100% Latino, or 100% Martian. As long as he picks the best of the best, I’m cool with that, and expect no less than that.


13 posted on 01/20/2017 3:48:25 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: All

Latinos threatened Trump time and again——if he didn’t see it their way, he could not be elected.

Fact remains.....AMERICANS elected Trump-—not some insidious third world bund plotting to overthrow the US govt.

Nyyyaaaa, nyaaaa, nyaaaaa.


14 posted on 01/20/2017 3:49:38 AM PST by Liz
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To: Navy Patriot

Leftist racists assume people are defined by their identity instead of by their values.

They divide people on the basis of who they are rather than acknowledging what they have in common.

Trump saw right through it.


15 posted on 01/20/2017 3:50:49 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Tennessee Nana; AuntB; TADSLOS; no-to-illegals

ping


16 posted on 01/20/2017 3:51:30 AM PST by Liz
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To: Navy Patriot

Boo hoo. Where is my sad face...


17 posted on 01/20/2017 3:52:37 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THAT’S how to say it!


18 posted on 01/20/2017 3:54:32 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Navy Patriot

I do wonder how many of Trump’s Gringos can speak Spanish, as that seems to cause them to push Amnesty. Both Bush Jr. and Jeb are fluent Spanish speakers, I believe, but thankfully they’re not an issue for Trump. The one guy that I know speaks decent Spanish, Tea Party Congressman Mick Mulvany, is supposed to be Budget Director but got suckered into supporting Rubio’s mass amnesty in 2014, due to his ability to speak Spanish - but we may luck out as he has a ‘nanny-issue’.

Not sure of the others, though.


19 posted on 01/20/2017 4:02:20 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: kabar

“Quotas and tokenism are how the Dems operate. Forget merit. Identity politics reign supreme. It is how we got Obama.”

EXACTLY!


20 posted on 01/20/2017 4:03:31 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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