Arianna Huffington’s Insulting Treatment of Minorities
Is there anything inappropriate or offensive about a mainstream news website creating a separate section for African-Americans and another for Latinos? And is there really any difference between that sort of thing and the array of ethnic publications and websites — Latino Magazine, Ebony, Jet, Hispanic Business, etc. — that already dot the landscape?
The answers to both questions are: “Yes” and “Yes.”
Someone needs to explain this to Arianna Huffington, the founder and editor-in-chief of the wildly successful and unapologetically liberal Huffington Post. The New York-based website, which has an estimated worth of $200 million, does not publish enough African-American and Latino writers. This is not opinion. This is fact. No one argues it, least of all Huffington.
That’s an embarrassment in a country where minorities are on track to constitute the majority by 2030 — despite the best efforts by nativists and the anti-immigration movement to reverse the trend. And it’s especially embarrassing in this case since liberals like Huffington consider themselves morally superior and are always more than ready to sermonize to the rest of us about our duty to embrace diversity.
They would do well to heed their own sermons before it’s too late. Any media entity — website, newspaper, television network, etc. — that doesn’t keep pace with changing demographics will eventually become irrelevant. Why would readers take the time to search out something that can tell them about the way America used to be, when they can opt for something that tells them how America is now and what it’s becoming?
So Huffington has a problem. The solution, she decided, is not to simply recruit more African-American and Latino writers to write for the website. That is too obvious. Anyone could do that. She wanted to do something really spectacular. So the Huffington Post is creating a special section of the website for African-Americans and another section for Latinos.
This kind of cyber-segregation is creepy. What’s next at this liberal watering hole? Segregated washrooms?
This is exactly the wrong path for Huffington to take. But it’s not entirely a surprising move. When liberals try to be more inclusive, they still can’t suppress their insatiable appetite for control. They have to preserve power. And that leads them to open the door of opportunity only a crack, which then reminds everyone just how restricted the main clubhouse really is.
I hope in the very near future you get to live in your beloved Mexifornia.
….Liberals are ‘blind men in a dark room looking for a blck hat that isnt there!’…..
This is not surprising behavior by Huffington and other liberals. See my piece “The Boxer Racist”
http://straightthinker.blogspot.com/2010/10/boxer-racist.html
It is because liberals believe (behind the thick walls of their consciences) that minorities are inferior and that “we” must take care of them that they create these types of things. As mentioned in this article above, Blacks and Latinos are perfectly capable of writing on the main page. Huffington has sent them to the back of the bus.
Mercer Tyson StraightThinker.com
The author writes on page one:
Is there anything inappropriate or offensive about a mainstream news website creating a separate section for African-Americans and another for Latinos? And is there really any difference between that sort of thing and the array of ethnic publications and websites — Latino Magazine, Ebony, Jet, Hispanic Business, etc. — that already dot the landscape?
The answers to both questions are: “Yes” and “Yes.”
And then writes this contradiction on page two:
Huffington could have handled this much better. She could have launched stand-alone products aimed at African-American and Latino readers. If she had done that, there would be no problem. It’s not condescending or insulting to have an ethnic-themed publication or website as long as it’s a separate media product specifically aimed at African-Americans or Latinos.
Just more proof that a portion of whiny minorities just want to make useless noise about everything that means absolutely nothing. The left just can’t pander enough to some of you. gawd!
Where are the Irish/Italian/Asian sections? I want reparations.
Well, at least you’re writing about something else.
Mr. Navarette stretches things a bit by his claim that “Latinos” participated in the American Revolution. Some Spaniards did, notably Jorge Farragut, father of David Farragut. Farragut was a volunteer, like Lafayette or Kosciousko. Other Spaniards, such as Bernardo de Galvez, conducted operations against the British, but as a subject of the Spanish king. However, in a spirit of good will, let’s give him that one.
As to the HuffPo “seperate but equal” special section, what is there to do but laugh? The Huffington Post is aimed at white liberals. For and by them, without a doubt. Adrianna’s knee-jerk is predictable. The principled move would have been to ignore the critics. Heck, she does a pretty good job ignoring us conservatives.
It’s her damned website and she can post whatever she wants.
Mr. Navarette feels patronized and doesn’t like it. All one can say is, ‘After 40 years of it, what changed your mind?’
BTW, why exactly does Mr. Navarette appear here? He’s no conservative. At least he isn’t in a seperate section.
James Jesus Angleton was half Mexican so you can say Latinos helped us win The Cold War.
So well said, Mr. Navarrette.
As soon as I read this graf: “‘African-American and Latino writers — and the people who read them — don’t belong at the grownup table. So we’ll put them at the children’s table instead. Bon appetit,’” I couldn’t help but recall an old, kinda’ bittersweet Saturday Night Live skit where the actors (Bill Murray and Gilda Radner, among others, I think) portrayed kids that had grown up together, and now, as adults, were still seated around an old card table in a dingy basement, while they listened to the ruckus of their now-grown-old elders at the party upstairs.
They sat around, cramped and complaining – but never actually got the nerve to actually get up, go upstairs and join the party.
Anyone out there got an idea what season that was, or the YouTube version?
What I’m still wondering is why anybody takes anything this bargain-basement Zsa Zsa Gabor says or does seriously? I guess there is a market for that trash and, hey, this is still America where there’s still some free speech left, that is of course until Obama and his minions decide to shut down the Internet. By the way, Arianna, what do you think about all that “Net Neutrality” stuff the FCC wants to enforce? I’m sure you’re just iching to have people like Rush Limbaugh write on your web site, and have to pay him for it too. Because, Arianna, you have to be FAIR, right? Yep, I’d sure like to see that!
Ruben,
Now this is the Ruben Navarette I remember. I grant you that ethnic loyalties will divide you on the immigration issue, and we get that you disagree with most PJMers on it, but appreciate the attempt to connect on other issues.
Susana Martinez, Marco Rubio and Brian Sandoval can’t be completely wrong, you know….
This doesn’t sound any different than the Black Caucus, NAACP, UNCF, the New Black Panthers, La Raza, affirmative action and any number of other segregated groups
Oh gee, the PJM’s Mr. Latino is back. Never do I look at Huffington Post, so I’m not familiar with the situation you’ve described here. However it doesn’t sound any more annoying than writers who take it upon themselves to speak for a race of people and time and again never fail to write about anything other than race.
Oh and even though this piece was about HP, don’t think that we missed your usual jab at the “nativist and anti immigration” movement, which in your mind is code language for Republicans who want a secure border and and end to illegal immigration. Pretty transparent this routine has become.
I have all the concern for your ethnic writers that you have for my nation’s immigration and employment laws.
Full disclosure: I’m married to a “minority” immigrant, but she is not really concerned about Asian-American issues. She’s a proud American citizen who refused to take the written test for her driver’s license in her native language. Don’t bother with the race card, I’m not playing.
The answers to both questions are: “Yes” and “Yes.”
The correct answers to both questions are “Yes” and “No”.
Racism is racism no matter who practices it.
It’s even racism when you practice it, Navarette, day after day after day.
Damn. I have to agree with Ruben for once. I wonder if Arianna’s idea is to show off how sensitive she is to diversity and the multicultural gospel. Not realizing how patronizing her methods are. And I wonder if the absence of non white Anglo writers is a product of the liberals just not knowing any writers outside their little circle.
Huffington could have handled this much better. She could have launched stand-alone products aimed at African-American and Latino readers. If she had done that, there would be no problem. It’s not condescending or insulting to have an ethnic-themed publication or website as long as it’s a separate media product specifically aimed at African-Americans or Latinos.
I’m having trouble following your reasoning here. You find it deeply offensive for her to have pages in the The Huffington Post reserved specifically for blacks and latinos but you have no problem at all with separate publications for blacks and latinos. What, pray tell, is the difference?
To use a transportation metaphor, it sounds as if you would be perfectly happy with a transit system that had separate buses for whites, blacks and latinos in which none could ride on the other’s buses but would be appalled if they all rode the same bus but were segregated within the bus. And yet you also insist that everyone, including blacks and latinos, are the same and have the same interests.
It seems to me that you should be equally offended by the two approaches to segregation: separate publications for each group and separate pages in the same publication for each group. I fail to see an important difference between these two forms of segregation.
Also, given that Huffington Post is a private endeavour, I see no reason why you, an outsider, should be proposing to dictate to Ms. Huffington how to run her business. It would make much more sense to me if you started your own publication – in collaboration with as many other people as you need – and go head to head with her in the marketplace to see who can attract the most readers. Then, the publication that attracts the bigger audience – or whatever portion of that audience you want to reach – wins.
You read my mind.
One shouldn’t accept a flawed article just because one likes to see Arianna get a good whacking.
To wit:
“That’s an embarrassment in a country where minorities are on track to constitute the majority by 2030 — despite the best efforts by nativists and the anti-immigration movement to reverse the trend”
Is it just me, or does the writer appear to conflate those whose oppose ILLEGAL immigration with those neanderthal nativists?
No it isn’t just you. Navarette hates conservatives or anybody who doesn’t agree with his opinions. I find it amusing that he upsets about Huffington who is, after all a good liberal like he is. Is he still so naive about the subtle and not so subtle racism on behalf of liberals, progressives or whatever one wishes to refer to them as? Seemingly so. Like someone else said already, liberals love to feel that they are superior because they think so tolerantly, and always favor programs deigned to “help” minorities because they truly believe that as a minority one is simply unable to make it on one’s own. Would a Streisand or Huffington for that matter live anywhere where there might be a danger of a minority being able to afford to live? The answer is no. I don’t read the Huffpo because I have always disliked this woman as far back to when managed to manipulate a whole lot of people here into believing she was a core conservative. Regrettably, a lot of people are still dumb enough to follow what she says. It is time for Navarette to start out on his own and see if he can beat the Huffpo, good luck with that.
I agree, he is conflating the two; sometimes, I wonder if those so-called nativists actually exist in the first place. If they did, wouldn’t the leftists be all over the media every time one of those “nativists” says something anti-immigrant in the news, or pushes a racist immigration law? I don’t seem to recall that happening recently.
He should come here to Orange County, California, one of the most conservative areas of the nation. What would he think of all the Asian girls married to European men, and the scores of their half-Asian/half-European children running around? (I went to school with a lot of half-Asian girls, and they’re absolutely gorgeous!) He would think “No, see, that doesn’t count, ’cause Asians act all white and do well in school and become scientists and engineers, and we all know that minorities are all poor drug-addicted gang-bangers.”
If the races intermarried, then racial activists would be put out of business; their self-preservation depends on segregation. V.D. Hanson pointed this out once.
Bam! Bam! And double Bam! You nailed it. The two minorities spoken of in the article are self segregating, which is sad. The other minority, in which you speak of, tries to intergrate, and therefor looses its victimhood status, even though in many cases, having a much harder row to hoe. It’s been twenty four years since I was in High School in California, and it wasn’t any different then, blacks and Latinos were self segregating, while Asians were not.
Adrianna may have a US passport but her racial attitudes were established in Europe.
Europeans might think they’re superior to Americans in racial matters but the web enables Americans like me to learn that in Europe black athletes are frequently greeted by spectators tossing bananas on to the playing field, a vulgar expression of racial contempt that would need to be explained to the typical American sports fan.
Am I white, African-American or Latino?
“So Huffington has a problem. The solution, she decided, is not to simply recruit more African-American and Latino writers to write for the website.”
Huffington’s problem is worrying about appearances instead of content. The real problem is that a large group of people on the left first look at the color of folks skin and their ethnic background as a filter to considering their ideas. Huffington’s problem, as is Mr. Navarettes, is the idea that diversity in and of itself is superior to considering each individual on their merits- including authors. Huffington has successfully marketed her product with the author’s she has recruited. Mr. Navarette commits the insult to Hispanics that assume all of them identify as being part of a minority requiring special attention as opposed to being simply law abiding US citizens. His cut is- if you’re latino you have to be for illegal immigration and open borders.
It’s a website. If you don’t post authors’ pictures, you don’t know the color of their skin or ethnicity. You could just consider their ideas and gravitate towards those writers that best express them.
So, am I white, black or hispanic?
Did you make the mistake of thinking those were the only options?
So the WSJ had it right all along with the simple pencil drawings of authors and subject persons? The recent change to color for part of its pages should have been opposed on these grounds alone!!
YES!!!
Since you’re here …
I wrote a response to your “troll boy” comment:
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/01/27/rabbis-spend-100k-to-slam-beck-for-slamming-soros/#comment-415626
But it hasn’t been published. Basically, your “Destroying America will be the culmination of my life’s work” is fake. Soros never said it. He never even said anything LIKE it. Here’s the actual interview which people like to claim backs up that smear:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/soros-interview-part-one/story-e6frgabx-1225690077292
It’s a fake quote. It’s made up, from snippets of that interview. You just repeated it as if it were true, and you cited glenn beck of all people as a source of “truth”. NOTHING glenn beck says about george soros is true. He quote-mines, he misrepresents, and takes things out of context. And the fact that he hasn’t been sued yet is all the proof that some people need that he must be right. Well, I think you need to look into just how hard it is to sue for defamation in the US. If it were even possible, michael mann would be a very rich man by now. He’s been positively defamed by just about everyone on the right.
You have been utterly sucked in by a very dishonest smear campaign. Believe what you like about soros – I’m not sure I like the guy either, after his money-trading games – but stop believing complete BS, and start checking your facts. And before you post another smoking-gun “quote” to put me in my place, put in a bit of effort and find a primary source – i.e. NOT glenn beck. Otherwise I’ll just embarrass you again with the facts.
I’m a troll boy, am I? And a balloon head? Given how badly you tripped up with that claim, I think you owe me an apology.
Hmm. Interesting.
This is just more of Senor Navarette’s grievance mongering. He wants a quota system for writers and articles, but when Ariana gives it to him it’s not good enough. How much white or black content is there in La Raza publications?
Huffy Po is a left, progressive website. So I am sure she is trying to do her very best by “giving” Latinos and Af. Americans their own place in her universe. It means advertising dollars. It is the great Ariana Patrona Mamá doing liberal good, at least for her business, but ostensibly for the poor minorities. The patrón system working. The Huffy Po Latifundia or Plantation. What about Viet Namese Americans? Chinese Americans? And Islamic minorities?
I’m still laughing. Reuben got his minority set-asides from Huffpo, and now he’s upset because it’s obvious that is what they are? Your friends and allies talk a nice line, but they don’t think enough of you to share their pages. You’ve been insulted, but not by me.
Nobody here is marginalizing Marco Rubio. No conservative cares if he’s a Latino, because he represents our values. I would vote for him over a white RINO like Dick Lugar in a heartbeat. It’s your choice to conflate opposition to illegal immigration with anti-Hispanic bias. I have no sympathy for any Anglo American who would illegally immigrate into Mexico and violate their laws and deprive one of their citizens of a job either.
Sr. Navarette are you trying to be the Latino Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton? When you can’t find a true injustice just look for some stuff to manufacture a new one? Could you please try and be an American instead of crying big tears for “Latinos” when you really are only interested in yourself. Did the HuPo refuse to to publish you? You could always move to Mexico and top corruption there, fight for human rights there. Maybe some day I might want free stuff in Mexico and it would be really nice if you could make sure I can get it when I decide to jump the border going south.
Guess who helped innovate the “Uncertainty Principle” and fractal geometry?
People who didn’t.
It was a job they didn’t want to do.
Ruben is miffed because Arianna gets more website hits than he does!
LOL.
Good job Reuben! It’s about time someone called out the lefty bigots about their hate.
In this essay, Ruben correctly identifies the “pat on the head” treatment that leftists give minorities. The “entitlements” section of HuffPo…the crust of bread for which the donor wants kudos and demands strict fealty…is the worst kind of plantation arrogance.
The benevolent master who doesn’t whip his subjects and allows them into the back door for some cake on their birthdays, wishes to be measured against Simon Legree…and awarded a position of moral superiority.
But dare to ask to be set free to have one’s own mind, (see, for example, Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Marco Rubio)…and suddenly the epithets of Oreo and Coconut start to fly from the spittle flecked lips of the Great Compassionates.
What Ruben’s “trick knee” will not let him escape…is a walk down the path of non-leftists who say: “You are a man and I am a man, I will treat you accordingly. Earn your way and I will earn mine. Take my hand in friendship. Do not mistake my kindness for weakness or my devotion to God and country as closed-mindedness”.
For Ruben, that is a scary walk. He, at once, wishes to not be patted on the head and told to be a good little leftist lapdog, but also wants all the “gaming” of the system that he can muster, enjoying the benefits of the fraud on society, but at the same time being free from its constraints.
This is how he is able with a straight face to say that it is ok to pander to one group, but it would be offensive to pander to white, Christian, heterosexual males.
That’s “nativism” and resistance to the natural order of change, coming whether those folks like it or not.
It’s not hypocritical in Ruben’s mind to suggest that Blacks and Latinos “love our country”, while suggesting that “our country” ought to single them out and create special, separate, and targeted divisive arenas in which to operate.
“Our” country is “nativist” and “oppressive”…and that’s why they don’t love it, while they are loving it, I suppose.
Ruben is so attached to the leftist lie about America, he can’t put it down…even while he is shining a spotlight on it.
When he learns to do so, he will finally be free from the shackles that bind him. And he will learn, that those he thought to be his “enemies” were never any such thing.
I think your first paragraph is a good point. The patronizing manner in which the liberal Left looks at minorities is just another ‘friendier’ version of racism since it still segregates, placing minorities in an ‘other’ category not based on merit or empiricism but on potential.
It segregates based on the idea that minorities are fully equal but always held back in some mysterious fashion by white people and past history.
In this scenario, all accomplishment by whites is the result of privilege and good ol’ boy networks because in fact all people are equal. It’s just that Europeans are lucky racists who providentially stumbled onto 8 million inventions and social constructs in much the same way Cortes accidentally destroyed the Aztec empire in a scene straight out of a 3 Stooges comedy.
Unlucky Aztecs. They would have won had not Cortes accidentally blown up their machine gun armory when he was trying to light his way to a latrine.
Gosh I thought you people, of all people, would
be aware that ‘….all men/women are created equal….!’
You see, when you grow up it becomes a fact of life
that no one is really any diffrent because their
skin is a diffrent hue. What we do learn is that
there are good people and bad people with all
different skin colors. Sure would be nice if
the owners of this site learn it soon.
Give it a try Pajamas Media!
Apparently that truth is no longer “self-evident” since it had to do with the divine right of kings and not any idea that people were in fact equal.
“…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,…”
Not God.
King talk, not ACLU talk.
I have a friend who, while working in a country in South America, got married to a “Latina” and started a family. They later moved as a family to the US. He is from Middle America. His family lives the life as upper middle class Americans.
Question: are his children “Hispanic”? Except for the mother, their native mother tongue is English, though they’re fluent in Spanish as well.
I have another friend whose family history is a polyglot of American ethnicity. He recently retired from two and a half decades in the Reserves. One could look at his facial features and think that he is Black, but that’s a very incomplete view of him.
Even our president is not really “Black”. He and his family never really knew the history of discrimination and slavery that many others are all too familiar with.
Can we please get past the stupid labels? Let’s focus on the disadvantage of poverty and realize that as long as people continue to assimilate in to our culture, we shouldn’t bother counting where they come from.
That goes for Liberal and Conservative alike.
Assimilation is one thing, contributions as opposed to taking away from society another.
I imagine that at some point there is some scenario wherein some group of some kind would not be welcome in the U.S. based on this. Maybe every member of Al Queda? If one can accept the idea in theory then one can look at crime and entitlements as well – what people do and have done as opposed to some whirly-gig future where they will suddenly throw off their own history and become entirely self-motivated Heisenbergs.
If everyone is the same, all cultures and ethnicity, then where is the need for diversity in terms of contributions?
If they are in fact different, then one can start assigning values, for better or worse. ‘Different’ comes along with this tag, like it or not.
The idea that all cultures are equal in potential is a silly one. There is no evidence of this in history. Equally silly is the idea that if Latinos and blacks demographically took over the U.S. in 400 years that America would be the same world leader in innovation. Other than faith there is no evidence of this in history – none.
Just because one dislikes an idea does not make it racist nor is history racist. It is a representation of what people can do and are likely to do in the future. The Third World can’t even copy America let alone create one from scratch. I know, America is a lucky coincidence, a perfect storm of idiocy.
This is political correctness in its purest expression – a monstrous politeness as if America is a cocktail party where truth is irrelevant and discourteous so let’s let in the entirety of the Third World so they can continue our dream of a manned mission to Mars.
All people who don’t achieve are simply unlucky. Sick to death of this nonsense. The racist double standards and intellectual maneuvering that are necessary to support diversity are what in fact is monstrous.
“Why would readers take the time to search out something that can tell them about the way America used to be, when they can opt for something that tells them how America is now and what it’s becoming?” With that, I am now convinced that Mr. Navarrette is a bigot. The bigotry inside of Mr. Navarrette is that he thinks skin color or ethnicity controls a person’s beliefs and politics. Tell me Mr. Navarrette, what is America becoming? Once the “majority-minority” takes over will we be nothing more than a larger, more corrupt Mexico? Once “people of color” take over will we be just another South Africa? What country where “brown people” rule are you hoping we emulate?
Mr. Navarrette, skin color does not pre-program people to one way of thinking. The United States is a grand experiment based upon a belief and a heart felt feeling. It is not an ethnicity, a race, or skin color. People all over the world have come here to get away from the rest of the world. Your hope that it will soon be more like the rest of the world because of the coming “majority-minority” just stereotypes so-called “people of color.” You are a bigot.
“It’s not condescending or insulting to have an ethnic-themed publication or website as long as it’s a separate media product specifically aimed at African-Americans or Latinos.”
It isn’t? Not even if you preach coming together?
isnt it amazing how people like ruben and libs cry about jim crow laws(the laws created by progressives) and then proceed to segregate them selves? They seperated themselves and gear things toward their own lil groups and then B and M about how they dont feel included with the rest of the group. they demans they get a job or be allowed to break the laws based on color/national origin and then have trouble figuring out why sterotypes exist and nobody is treating them seriously. they cant figure out why 20+ million people breaking into our country and our laws makes us nervous.
Ruben: you demand special rights and then you claim to be insulted that thoes in the liberal media etc treat you like children. us “nativists” and andti ILLEGAL immigration people are the only ones treating you and minorities like adults as you claim you want. We demand you follow the same laws and immigration rules as I did and millions before you have as well as get a job based on skills and ability not some mythical PC job ratio and skin color. you say the minorities are on their way to becomming the majoirty by 2030. If so then shouldnt you loose your special status and then that status be given to us? but i doubt that will happen. you will continue to claim that you are just as good as us, but demand special rights, you want to sit at the adult tabel then act like it. Obey the laws and demand that things like affermitive action be removed. otherwise nobody will take you seriously
How about just ending all immigration. Will someone please tell me the urgent nature of adding more people to a country with 300 million people?
From it’s founding til the early 60s we arrived at 200 million. Now, in a quarter of that time, we have had another 100 million. This is heading to a very bad place and America doesn’t need more people, quite the opposite.
If people from outside the U.S. want to make some special point about equality, then show that quality by staying home and making that country a place everyone wants to come to.
I can’t believe I got censored. Wow. So here is politically correct comment.
All cultures are equal. Everybody has the same work ethic. And all cultures has the same average level of qualifications. All races has the same culture, work ethic and level of competence. All cultures and races are completely the same in terms of level of education and qualification in any kind of job.
Ruben is right. He’s a genuis. Long live Ruben.
#8 Dave hit it outside the ballpark: why AREN’T the Hispanic and black writers at HuffPo complaining about the segregation? The same reason that the majority of black and Hispanic-Americans support, follow and never question white AND black elitist, controlling, racist liberals who continue to enslave and fool blacks and other minorities by getting their allegiance and votes and in return, they get to be second class citizens totally dependent on unions, handouts and unfulfilled promises. Case in point are the hundreds of millions of dollars that have poured into the south side of Chicago and DC, yet, to this day, they’re still a cesspool of crime, poverty, high school dropouts, joblessness and hopelessness. Pro-capitalist, free market thinking, freedom-loving minority-Americans like myself, are unabashedly conservative and will work hard no matter what, to make it in life. We do not seek generational handouts to make it in America. So long as African- and Hispanic-Americans rely on Government, unions and the liberal establishment to run and CONTROL their lives, they’ll always be enslaved to them.
Conservatives are compassionate and tolerant. If you recall, it was the conservative movement, including talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Hannity and Laura Ingraham, plus various Republican Congressmen, who were the ones instrumental in getting President GW Bush to commute the prison sentences of the 2 Hispanic-American border patrol agents, Ramos and Campeon, in 2009. The elitist, ideology-based liberals, including, surprisingly, many minorities in the Democratic party, were silent and non-existent in the push to get these 2 honorable heroes freed from the injustice done to them.
It is also compassionate conservatives who continue to contribute to humanitarian causes such as Sudan/Darfur (ask George Clooney who has been the most generous to this — liberals or conservatives — he has stated it is the conservatives) while the liberal elitist establishment sit back, complain, criticize and call us racists and uncaring. What hypocrites.
Why does Rubin continually contribute to this site. Number one: Who gives a fly’n f#$K what huff and puff does or doesn’t do. Number two: I’m sick of latino themed this and African-American themed that, I just don’t care.
If latinos and african americans spent more time doing their homework and trying to get a job, instead of getting knocked up and doing drugs, maybe huff and puff would hire some.
For the record, my dad was from Iran. He had dark skin and an accent and that didn’t seem to get in his way. He made quite a nice life for himself and his family. That’s why I call myself “Fortunate Son” because I was blessed to be born in the USA and count myself a red blooded American. The thought I calling myself an persian american makes me want to puke.
This is the greatest country in the world, but I fear our days are numbered if we don’t fight for the things that made us great. When the USA becomes another third world Sh@# hole like Mexico or of Africa, the world will decend into another dark age.
A guy like Rubin needs to move to Mexico if he wants to read latino themed publications written by Mexicans.
One wonders if you even read the article.
If a conservative did this, the main stream media would be all over them.
I see a lot of right wing smugness in the comments, despite the fact that Fox News has a whole separate website for Latinos (foxnewslatino.com). You know what they say about stones and glass houses…
I see a lot of trollness in your posts; care to make a real point?
Didn’t think so.
Why do you find such segregation “creepy,” Navarrette?
You do your damnedest to create just that with your own articles.
#38 AARON I detect another specious “gotcha” moment from a libtard frustrated by FOX’s destruction of the liberal propaganda machine.Last time I checked, Aaron, it was liberals, and not FOX who were pushing racial quotas.
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