Posted on 02/10/2015 12:35:30 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has fired back at a recent New York Times op-ed that questioned whether he was authentically Hispanic, and conservative Hispanics are pointing to it as yet another example of the media’s malpractice when it comes to covering issues of politics and ethnicity.
The op-ed by Ann Louise Bardach, titled “Why Are Cubans So Special?”, was sharply critical of the Cuba policy supported by Cruz, and his fellow Cuban colleagues in the Senate, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey). Dismissing the Senators as “second-generation white Cuban exiles” — as opposed to the “the overwhelming majority of Latinos in the United States, who are of mixed race or indigenous descent” — Bardach mocks Cruz for not being fluent in Spanish and says that he “has been called as Hispanic ‘as Tom Cruise.’”
Cruz’s communications director, Amanda Carpenter, responded with a letter to the editor. In it, Carpenter wrote, “Your decision to allow an Op-Ed writer to openly mock a person’s ethnicity — as Ann Louise Bardach did when she wrote that Senator Ted Cruz ‘has been called as Hispanic as Tom Cruise’ — is saddening.”
“She was using the comment to bludgeon Mr. Cruz’s principled policy positions regarding United States-Cuba relations,” continued Carpenter, “suggesting that, if he disagrees with her, Mr. Cruz is not truly Cuban — despite his father’s having been imprisoned and tortured in Cuba, and coming to America penniless.”
New Jersey attorney Sam Rosado shared his frustrations with this attitude. “I can relate so easily to that,” Rosado, who is Puerto Rican, told Breitbart Texas. “That my identity is diminished based upon superficial factors, never mind that my parents are born and raised in Puerto Rico, that I grew up in the culture, and that’s how I identify myself, because I don’t speak Spanish fluently
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Obviously, you don't know the narrative. Racist/bigoted comments when by lib scribblers when directed at conservative minorities are perfectly alright.
The reverse is not true. According to libs, all conservatives are racists and bigots anyway. And conservative women are not real women, conservative black Americans are not real blacks, and conservative Hispanic conservatives are not real Hispanics. That's lib "logic."
Used to be we wanted assimilation. The. Op-ed basically said that immigrant children with irish, italian, polish, cuban, Puerto Rican, etc. roots are not worthy Americans.
This will make it harder for them to play the natural born citizen card.
According to the United States Census, Hispanic or Latino refers to “a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.”
Cruz is as Hispanic as Obama is Black. If one questions Obama’s ethnicity, he is painted as a racist. So obviously the New York Times writer, Ann Louise Barbach is a racist and should be fired.
If Obama is “black” than Cruz is Hispanic.
*then
Yet, according to MSM, squaw Warren live in big heapum teepee. Come to D.C. on sacred buffalo. Save little man from pale face oppressor.
They don’t attack conservatives because they’re right. They attack because they can; on mere whim if they feel like it.
The cover description of the ethnic group known as “Hispanic” pretty much includes just about anyone who wants to call themselves Hispanic. So who would that person be who scoffs and says that somebody else is or is not “Hispanic, based on THEIR narrow interpretation?
Excellent point... Hawaii and Indonesia and white upbringing do not an African American make.
Wiki has the Cuban people being 73% white, 14.5% black and 12% mestizo. The Cuban middle class which fled here is probably whiter than a sampling of those who stayed in Cuba.
Cruz is already getting flak from the NY Slimes? Yahooooo!
That means that Ted has the left scared, and also that he is over the target. “Fire for effect Ted!”
It also means that Ted is a completely viable candidate.
Hey Anne Louise, you better put some ice on that.
Obama got his citizenship at birth through his mother, and by virtue of being born on US Soil.
Cruz's citizenship at birth came only from his birth mother, as he was born in Canada.
The implied current definition of NBC is "citizen at birth". Both meet that criteria.
There might be some arguments where Obama's claim is seen as valid, but Cruz's is not - but I have not heard anyone put that forward.
In a just world, this person would be fired for racism.
“So, is Cruz supposed to dress in a wife-beater t-shirt, wear a hairnet, drive a low rider, and flash gang signs to prove he’s an authentic Hispanic?”
Getting his face tattooed would help keep it real as well! /sarcasm;)
Exactly. My grandfather was born and raised in Santander, and spoke Castellano, with a little bit of Basque thrown in. Having come from northern Spain, he would certainly not have appeared "Hispanic" by today's stereotypical American standards.
I guess this author would consider my family "White" Hispanic - especially since (gasp!) we are conservative.
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