Yesterday Bill Richardson did a special web interview for This Week. In it he was asked what he thought about Ted Cruz:
ABC News: Do you think he represents most Hispanics with his politics?
RICHARDSON: “No, no. He’s anti-immigration. Almost every Hispanic in the country wants to see immigration reform. No, I don’t think he should be defined as a Hispanic. He’s a politician from Texas. A conservative state. And I respect Texas’ choice. But what I don’t like is… when you try to get things done, it’s okay to be strong and state your views, your ideology. But I’ve seen him demean the office, be rude to other senators, not be part of, I think, the civility that is really needed in Washington.”
Breitbart instantly noticed this and did a post. Soon after all the wingnuts went into outrage mode, including The American Thinker:
And yes, Richardson is Hispanic himself. It doesn’t matter. Bigotry is bigotry wherever it rears its head. And in that interview, Richardson took bigotry out of the closet and paraded it in front of anyone watching.
I don’t think Richardson should have really said what he did either, but this exposes the blindness to the bigotry that really exists within the GOP today. For example. Here is a clip of Rush Limbaugh in 2011 saying Obama isn’t “authentically black”:
Authentically black? The fat, white hate monger can tell people who is and isn’t black and the GOP continues to slobber all over him.
And that wasn’t the only time Limbaugh has done this. Here he is almost exactly a year later:
Limbaugh says Obama isn’t black because he doesn’t have “slave blood”
But again, it’s OK for the white guy to question other races, but not people of that race. It’s like when Republicans tell me what I should/shouldn’t think of Jewish people and Israel. Somehow they are the experts, despite me being of Jewish decent and even having a great uncle who was a rabbi.
This is the right’s race problem today. This is why more and more people are fleeing the GOP and either going independent or Democrat. It isn’t so much that they make these kind of racist statements, but rather the fact that they don’t see a damn thing wrong with them. They cheer on Rush for saying Obama isn’t black, but go after Bill Richardson for saying he doesn’t think Cruz should be called Hispanic, and then don’t see a problem with it. That is some serious blindness happening there and that will continue the purge of Republicans around this country.