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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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CRUZ or LOSE!Isn’t that racist? Profiling? Or something?
They’re scared that Cruz is going to run away with the Hispanic vote, which he will!
That plus “minorities” are not allowed to be conservative.
That was my first thought, also. The Dems are scared of Cruz, so they gotta’ start attacking early and often!
That was my first thought, also. The Dems are scared of Cruz, so they gotta’ start attacking early and often!
That was my first thought, also. The Dems are scared of Cruz, so they gotta’ start attacking early and often!
Cruz doesn’t fit the left’s racist caricature of Hispanics, so his ethnicity doesn’t count.
Well he is kind of like Hispanic like Obama is kind of like black!
Actually, I read recently Cruz in the past has delivered speeches and debates in Spanish, and translated as well?
Will her next essay address Elizabeth Warren, who is about as Native American as General Custer?
The ultra liberal MSM & the GOPe are getting an early start slandering Cruz!
I have noticed that Cubans appear to be Spanish (except for los negros) and not meztisos (mixed Spanish and indian) like Mexicans. I assume that the original indian population in Cuba all died after the Spanish arrived. Is that Cruz’s fault?
NONE do so more than Ted Cruz ... he frightens these people out of whatever little is left of their minds.
TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Yep minorities are expected to be liberal.
So Ted Cruz is not really Hispanic. Jindal is not really of Indian descent. Clarence Thomas is not really black. Allan West is not really black. Neither is Tim Scott or Thomas Sowell.
The liberal view of this is very strange in my opinion.
Obama, as American as Hugo Chavez.
But Barack, he is oh so black.
This must mean some internal polling favorable to Cruz has come in and the Palinization must begin.
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