‘Brown Relief’: NPR Features Story on Latinos‘ Joy Over Shooter Being a ’Gringo’
- Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:19pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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When NPR featured a story on “brown relief” Wednesday — the supposed collective joy of the Latino community over the Tucson shooter being a “gringo” — the question of who should be more offended, “browns” or whites, is a good one. But the more obvious question is, “Why are these comments allowed and Juan Williams’s thoughts on Muslim clothing not?”
The story, “Across America, Latino Community Sighs With Relief,” was featured on both radio and on NPR’s website. And it’s nothing short of remarkable, not for its insight, but for its callous, racist, language. Author Daisy Hernandez, a Latino who covers feminism and once worked for the New York Times, writes:
I wasn’t the only person on Saturday who rushed to her Android when news came of the Tucson shooting. I wasn’t looking however to read about what had happened. My auntie had already filled me in — ”Someone tried to murder una representante. People have been killed,” she’d reported. What I wanted to know was the killer’s surname.
My eyes scanned the mobile papers. I held my breath. Finally, I saw it: Jared Loughner. Not a Ramirez, Gonzalez or Garcia.
It’s safe to say there was a collective sigh of brown relief when the Tucson killer turned out to be a gringo. Had the shooter been Latino, media pundits wouldn’t be discussing the impact of nasty politics on a young man this week — they’d be demanding an even more stringent anti-immigrant policy. The new members of the House would be stepping over each other to propose new legislation for more guns on the border, more mothers to be deported, and more employers to be penalized for hiring brown people. Obama would be attending funerals and telling the nation tonight that he was going to increase security just about everywhere.
In short, the only reason the nation is taking a few days to reflect on the animosity in politics today is precisely that the shooter was not Latino. [Emphasis added]
The story doesn’t end there. Hernandez confesses she cared nothing of the victims at first:
I admit sadly that it was only after I saw the shooter’s gringo surname that I was able to go on and read the rest of the news about those who lost their lives on Saturday and those who, like Rep. Giffords, were severely wounded.
If the story has any redeeming value it’s that Hernandez admits these things “sadly.” But in the wake of the shooting, it seems hardly appropriate that a story such as this should be featured on a government-sponsored news outlet only days after the tragic event. An outlet that fired a longtime employee for much less just months ago.
Williams, fired over the phone, didn’t refer to anyone as “arabs” or even come close to using offensive titles when referring to his anxiety when he sees “Muslim garb” on a plane. That didn’t matter.
Maybe then the option of who this will end up offending most is behind door number number three: Juan Williams.
(H/T: Greg Hengler)
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Comments (235)
John-Mary
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:44pmHernandez is, even though she can’t understand it, a racist.
Report Post »nostromo
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:43pmIdentity politics at its worst. No matter what happens as long as one of “yours” didnt do it.
Report Post »factcheck
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:41pmDaisy, Daisy, Daisy. We have plenty of documented murders (and other atrocities) committed against Americans by illegal Latinos. I just wish they would go home and Americans could sigh in relief
Report Post »jeff-co
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:41pmIt’s nice when liberals and progressives reveal their true feelings and thought processes to us. Now if more people would open their eyes and ears and apply some rational thought to these actions and stories and their implications this country would be a lot better off.
Report Post »matt708
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:38pmall the more reason to stop finding NPR and let them try it on their own.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:25pmTry it on their own? NPR would crash and burn like ‘Air America,’ and GOOD RIDDENCE!!!
Report Post »Nothing but a pack of communist’s!!!
dlmarsh
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:38pmMaybe we should be looking at removing all public funding for NPR. They are looking at it in Congress and the Commonwealth of VA is pushing a bill to remove all state funding. I didn’t realize states gave any money to NPR, but apparently that is the case. I thought they only got Federal Tax dollars. How much more racist and biased can you get, her comments were clearly both on more than one level. Definitely time to remove all Publicly funded Govt. tax dollars going to supporting them.
Report Post »Values101
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:37pmHow Sad.
Report Post »suran
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:36pmDefund NPR. NOW. They’ve had a free ride for far too long and all they take are left turns.
Report Post »irritated1
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:36pmYour tax dollars at work.
Report Post »Planeguy
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:35pmWhat I think to be very funny is the self-segregation of people in the United States. I’m an old white guy of European heritage, and I‘ve never really thought of Latino’s being much different. They have a European-Spanish heritage. There are just so many things in this world that are crazy, why do we have to pile upon it??
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:35pmOh, I get it – that’s pretty stupid. At first I thought “Brown Relief” was some sort of NPR euphemism for defecation.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:55pmThat’s funny. I was getting emails about the “Brown Bailout” for UPS. When I saw “Brown Relief,“ I thought it was a story about the now dead UPS ”Brown Bailout.”
Report Post »Insipid
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:35pmWHy the hate, Im a gringo who’s mother played bingo. It often seems minorities can play the do as I say not as I do.game but let whitey make a gaff like that. It would then be a mission to destroy
Report Post »Grylls81
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:34pmI don’t care.
Report Post »Rawby
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:33pmLet’s be honest here, there were a lot of groups who were relieved to learn that this nut wasn’t one of theirs.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:01pmAgreed. Now if we could convince the rest of the country that JL was just a nut and the shootings were not because of political speech all would be well.
Report Post »fishstx777
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:33pmIm sure ms hernandez missed the border patrol agent being killed. that didnt get the coverage when its law enforcement or people of no use to their agenda no publicity who cares.just a dumb american gringo right ms hernandez.
Report Post »7.62AirMailComeGetIt
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:43pmor the border patrol agent that got ARRESTED that was stashing illegals in a secret room in his house
Report Post »Slevdog1
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:33pmWhat if the shooter was African-American? Oh, that reminds me, where is Al and Jesse?
Report Post »Planeguy
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:31pmOh; “GOOD point!!”
Report Post »spirited
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:32pmMisery loves company –eh?
Report Post »Planeguy
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:31pmWell, I can understand that, but it’s not law-abiding citizens of Latin heritage that should be concerned, nor should anyone EVER place any blame on our citizens for what an undocumented and/or illeagle person from another country who happens to be of the same race as them, do! Undocumented or legal, a person whom commits a crime does so at their own volition. The fact that someone was able to enter the country so easilly is a different story all together.
Lets never lose the sight that Americans are AMERICANS, and should be afforded full protection under the constitution. But I don‘t have a problem if a cop that pulls me over for a speeding ticket asks me if I’m a legal resident. I am, but that’s not the point! I think they should ask that question…. If a person can’t answer it, I believe the officer should provide a warning ticket for them to produce proof at a later date and let them go. If the person doesn’t provide proof, then a warrent is issued and if he again falls into custody, law enforcement can now has reason to hold!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:45pmThe ‘latino’ community are saying they are being treated unfairly if they are asked to show their ‘papers’. I don’t know about you but I am asked for my papers when I get stopped too. Drivers license and registration, proof of insurance and I am blonde haired and blue eyed.
Report Post »Planeguy
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:20pmMy point is; the Arizona law as it was intended was to hold suspected undocumented people. I think a way around it is to get as much info on these folks as possible, give them a ticket or a warning to provide proof at a later date; when they don’t show up, they are now “in the system” to be held should they come under law enforcement (LE) scrutiny in the future!
To me it’s a simple solution if LE is handcuffed (pun intended) by civil rights issues. Chances are, they’ll be apprehended again for something and at that point there is a legal basis to hold them. If they don’t come under LE scrutiny; “good!” They’re obeying all the other laws of the land!
Iguess I’ve been to South & Central America too many time and know the vast majoriety of the people are good, hard working folks that just want to get ahead. I also live in the NE-USA and don’t have to deal with it on a day-to-day basis, and only offer this as a point of discussion!
Regardless, legal residents should have nothing to fear, nor should anyone hold any bias towards them because of thir undocumented compartiots.
Just my opinion
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:48pmI agree with you and thank you for admitting that since you are from the NE you don’t have to deal with this problem firsthand like we do in the border states. Alot of the ones who defend the illegals cannot fathom how much trouble these people are causing states like Az because they don’t see it.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:30pm“Gringo” is derogatory. It is RACIST! I am offended by that.
Report Post »7.62AirMailComeGetIt
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:39pmI agree 100%
Also NPR (soros funded) Should be fined and someone should be fired
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:55pmNPR should be defunded. I wonder how she would feel if someone said “No beaners were shot.”
Report Post »MaybeTheDingoAteYourBaby
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:29pmunbelievable, but then again if it would have been a muslim or latino, the blame game would never have happened.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:48pmDid anyone else receive an email about the Nov. 17th Flight 297 Atlanta to Houston AirTran flight that was canceled from Atlanta to due to a man who refused to get off of his cell phone before takeoff?
Report Post »It was 11 Muslim men and the MSM didn’t run the story. Was it true?
Coldheart
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:15pmYes. I was not aware that there was more than one or that they were those PC correct non-terrorists.
AS to the GRINGO comment: It saddens me greatly. Apparently the only racially pejorative acceptable term is this.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:02amBlacks can call us “crackers” too.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:29pmGringo offends me, we need to strike that kind of hate speech down. All Zane Gray and Louis Lamoure books need to be rewritten.
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:03pmUh oh….you said ‘strike.’
Report Post »:O
kryptonite
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:32pm@Untameable-Kate
Report Post »No can do. We are still an oppressed majority.
Disabledvet
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:26pmI’m offended someone called me a GRINGO. I want someone fired for this.
Report Post »Planeguy
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:32pmJust a pet name; no harm intended….
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:49pmThats what anchor babies call , with love ofcourse, anyone who pays for their parasitic existence in this country.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:25pmI can certainly understand their relief just as I was relieved the shooter wasn’t a conservative, but that doesn’t make the crime less heinous, which would be hard to tell by her cheezy smile. This is a very somber and sad situation made worse by all the finger pointing. Gabrielle Giffords would be horrified which doesn’t seem to deter the liberal pundits what-so-ever – pretty pathetic that ratings come before civility.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:27pmAgreed, the one thing I wish AZ had that Florida no longer uses is ‘Old Sparky’ and we could sit this shooter into it with and play with the switch a few times before it goes off.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:43pmYep, the last time “Old Sparky” sputtered and the bleeding hearts decided the guy suffered unspeakable torture (didn’t die immediately), altho the victim didn’t have a choice to live or die, they decided on lethal injection. More humane, you know.
Report Post »SlippedThroughAWormHole
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:24pmDouble standard? NO couldn’t be.
Report Post »neversaynever
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:03pmIf she can call us “gringo’s” in our own country then we should be able to call her a *******. If I go to Mexico then I can understand being called a “gringo”, but not in my own country.
Report Post »101
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:32pmTucson is only 48.3% “Gringo” the rest are legal Mexicans & illegal wetbacks. Tucson is the red zone for illegal human & drug smuggling!
To find out more stats on Tucson click on link below
Report Post »http://www.city-data.com/city/Tucson-Arizona.html
101
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:28pm@neversaynever
Don’t go to Mexico “GRINGO’S”
Mexican drug cartel killed 15,273 people in 2010 drug war violence — up from 9,616 in 2009,…34,616 people have died in Mexico’s drug war since 2006, according to the report.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:16pm@neversaynever
Report Post »Ditto!
STAND4TRUTH
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:32pm@SlippedThroughAWormHole
Couldn’t agree with you more. Crazy that she calls him a term that is defined as referring to a foreigner despite the fact that he’s a citizen (albeit a sick homicidal one and should hang), the racial slant to “gringo” is just icing on the cake.
Her entire focus was concern for her race’s saving face/reputation (damage control) while directly insulting the other race with a derogatory label. RACISM: “discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race” – from wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Report Post »Hefsmaster
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:23pmOpen mouth, insert foot.
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:30pm“Hernandez confesses she cared nothing of the victims at first:”
That’s a big foot.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:33pmBrown relief…saw it in my toilet bowl this morning…
tower7femacamp
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:35pmHas anyone here watched the movie Machete yet ?
Report Post »booger71
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:38pmHas anyone here watched the movie Machete yet ?
I don’t watch anti-American movies, especially by Robert Rodriquez.
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:40pmMore hypocrisy from this organization. Call your representatives and demand: 1) investigation into them (Rep Issa here is another one for your alleged ‘witch hunt’) 2) immediate defunding of NPR…. You are paying for this America!
More double standard talk, imagine if it was the other way around and someone said thank god its a brown person!! Sharpton, Jackson and their ilk would be calling for someone’s head!
Give corrupt politicians, bias fringe media and the special interest groups a “lethal” dose of their own medicine through http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »Cherished Emblems
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:44pmI can read this stuff anymore…it’s just crazy and sad. Not my America. Is there anyplace on the planet that is America of 10 years ago?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:45pmHad the shooter been Latino, media pundits wouldn’t be discussing the impact of nasty politics on a young man this week — they’d be demanding an even more stringent anti-immigrant policy. The new members of the House would be stepping over each other to propose new legislation for more guns on the border, more mothers to be deported, and more employers to be penalized for hiring brown people.
Report Post »———–
Now that the shooter is not a latino,
there is no need to secure our country .
oldguy49
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:52pmtoe jam
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:58pm:D :D :D
Report Post »Crackin up here, DustyLuv!
0bamanation
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:58pmGRINGO is a slang Spanish and Portuguese word used in Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries, principally in Latin America, to denote foreigners, often from the United States, the United Kingdom, or Westerners in general (but not in Brazil where the term applies to any foreigner, including other Latin Americans). The term can be applied to someone who is actually a foreigner, or it can denote a strong association or assimilation into foreign (particularly US) society and culture.
Report Post »The American Heritage Dictionary classifies gringo as “offensive slang,“ ”usually disparaging,“ and ”often disparaging.”[1] -wikipedia
Ellie
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:59pmWhen I first heard that a U.S. Rep and several others were shot in AZ, I thought of the possibility of it being done by a member of one of the Mexican drug cartels (with or without a Mexican surname) but since it was already 8 hours after the event, I soon found out that the shooter was just another unbalanced nut job under 25 years old and thus not likely to be driven by politics or anything outside of his chemically mixed up mind.
I remember about 2 months after 9/11 a Mexican comic relating how they were so relieved that it was done by Muslims – “The look like us but they wasn’t us – phew!” and a Muslim comic (Amed Amed) saying that he started claiming he was Mexican not Muslim when going through the airport.
Report Post »0bamanation
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:00pm“I admit sadly that it was only after I saw the shooter’s gringo surname that I was able to go on and read the rest of the news about those who lost their lives…”
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:08pmBetter idea, NPR airs anything, WE ALL get OFFENDED!!!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:10pm@Tower
No, my associate gave me a copy of Jame Fonda films on a set of DVD’s; seems they went into the microwave and are now a new art sculpture. At least the microwave is of replacement value.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:13pmLike the Mexicans aren’t killing .. just across the border? How about the man killed by illegals on his own ranch .. inside the U.S? Excuse me while a wretch …
This was one incident of a madman .. being exployed by the left and now by self-rightous “browns”.
I understand that the Dems are now calling for no Obamacare vote .. out of calls for “civility” .. give me a damn break .. how many TEA Party members have been SLANDERED in the last week and before by the left?
Report Post »AriBenTZion
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:14pmIt has been my experience that Latinos and Blacks are more racist that the average White American. But this observation is solely based on empirical evidence.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:36pmI didn’t hear any racism. But what I did hear was fear of a white backlash in a place where racism is prevalent, a fear of living in a state where many assume you are in the country illegally based on the color of your skin.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:36pm0bamanation
Report Post »I have read that the word originated in the Southwest because the Mexicans heard the Irish ranch hands singing a song called, Where the green grass grows. Green grass became gringos. I don’t remember where I read it though.
101
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:36pmNPR…Say are my tax dollars still paying for this race channel!
Congress can we afford this crap when our Country the “gringo’s” are broke?
Report Post »FUBARSNAFU
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:50pmJZS….Really? You didn’t hear “GRINGO”???? That’s akin to calling a black person the N word. You are brain dead.
Report Post »AriBenTZion
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:51pmjzs
I lived in South Florida many years and never met a Cuban, Dominican, Salvadoran, Nicaraguan, Mexican, Haitian, Brazilian, Costa Rican or any other person who was in the U.S., legally express fear of being stopped by the police or any other authority. Never.
The word prevalent means: widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
Apparently Florida is immune to the so call prevalent racism in America.
Report Post »FUBARSNAFU
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:52pmKate, It is a term that is used to offend whites. Period. I lived in Texas for 30+ years and have never heard it used any other way.
Report Post »knight67
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:18pmWikipedia, Gringo: In Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia the term applies for U.S. citizens or Westerners in general, widely accepted as a colloquial demonym, meaning arrogant, white, un-educated American or in general terms “un-educated, arrogant Anglo. Depending on the context, it may or may not be pejorative.
Report Post »FIRE Daisy Hernandez FOR RACIAL SLURS AS YOU WOULD A “GRINGO”
untameable-kate
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:23pmFUBARSNAFU
Report Post »No kidding, I was just saying that is where the word comes from, according to what I read. I’m from Arizona, don‘t think I haven’t been called that and many other insulting terms for ‘white’.
KUjayhawk
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:31pmWhat a disgusting human being this girl is. How selfish you are to only have been concerned that the shooter was not “brown” as you stated. You were only ‘able’ to continue to read on after this fact was known, I hope your are the rare occurrence in the human race with this sort of mind set.
Report Post »SeanW
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:34pmWell, I can see what she is saying. It is easy to lead off an arguement with woulda‘s and coulda’s and shoulda’s but any hypothesis derived from such discussion is spurious at best. Had Laughner been a Mexican-American I don’t think there would have been too much of a change in the rhetoric. Do not forget it is only a recent thing where Mexican-Americans have started voting dem. they are typically a very conservative group of people very much focused on family values.
Now, had this been a migrant worker or an illegal alien? Yes the rhetoric would have been ramped up, but what the lady on NPR fails to recognize is that the democrats are first to jump on a bandwagon: see Iraq war. Had this been an illegal alien one can assume the right would have gone off the deep end calling for more border security but the left would have been right there with them because that would reflect the mood of the country.
Again, conclusions drawn from hypotheticals are not conclusions. They are guesstimates.
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:43pmI resent that she clled me a “gringo” that is a disgusting and vile word. What is this world coming to when the media puts it out there?
So happy to be supporting the illegals here in America so I can be cursed with derogatory names!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:59pmHaha. This lamebrain can’t even think left. If a Latino had done this, the left would have:
Day 1 (Sat.)
a) blamed Brewer.
b) blamed the Tea Party.
c) blamed Palin.
Obama would have issued a written statement calling for caution/unity/civility, and offering his condolences to the victims and their families.
Day 2 (Sun.)- Replay of past two days
Day 3 (Mon.)- All of the above, PLUS the left would have
a) given us the Hernandez hero story ad nauseam.
b) spoken to all his bewildered, tearful relatives and friends.
c) had all their experts expound on the assailant’s PTSD Syndrome
d) aired countless sob stories of illegal immigrants equally traumatized post AZ immigration law
e) made a renewed call for bipartisan immigration reform, aka amnesty.
d) disparaged Repubs for not passing the Dream Act, i.e., blamed Repubs.
Obama blah-blah speech
Day 4(Tues.)- Same game
Day 5(Wed.) – Story fades away, but Latino agenda gains traction.
So you see, Ms. May 5th, you are as dumb as O’bum.
P.S. FBI Director – not present
Report Post »POTUS and DOJ – not present
Napolitano represents Obama at memorial service.
AzDebi
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:03pmHey, I beg to differ with you guys! The blame can be “spun” to include Latinos…the psychedelic weed he was smoking ON A REGULAR BASIS…is imported from….guess where???? Our wonderful southern neighbor…yep…M E X I C O…SOOOO…if we look at this from a leftist point of view…the shooter can’t be blamed…it’s the DRUG we need to BLAME…AND…MEXICO STILL LOSES! SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE! Secure our Border!
Report Post »Quad-rip-legic
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:03pmAmerica needs just one law to start turning things around:
Report Post »“If you enter the United States of America illegally you can never become a citizen and you will be deported or imprisoned indefinitely!”
Please Find the Nearest Exit By Land or Sea.
Taquoshi
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:27pmHernandez confesses she cared nothing of the victims at first:”
Would that be because the victims didn’t happen to be Hispanic? Does that also imply that the rest of us waited to hear what the ethnicity of the victims were before we started to pray? I don’t think so.
But at least this woman is honest.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:50pmanother reason NOT to listen to NPR.. and EVEN if the shooter was a Latino OBAMA wouldn’t have done squat..
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:40pm@JZS
Report Post »Of course you didn’t hear any racism….the comments were made by a Progressive…..you only hear racism when a Conservative speaks.
*************************
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:41pmHeh … heh … they said BROWN. Heh … heh …
boss TAGGAART: “I got it! I know how we can run everyone out of Rock Ridge.”
Report Post »HEDLEY LAMARR: “How?”
boss TAGGAART: “We’ll kill the first born male child in every household.”
HEDLEY LAMARR [after a moment's thought, shakes head 'no']: “Too Jewish.”
-Blazing Saddles
DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:51pmDefund NPR, PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts NOW!!!!! Everyone contact their congressmen and senators and implore them to defund these biased organizations now. Immediately! Please.
Report Post »MOAON AABE
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:00pmShe said “Gringo” gringo – definition of gringo by the Free Online Dictionary …
Report Post »grin·go (gr ng g ). n. pl. grin·gos Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a foreigner in Latin America, especially an American or English person. …That’s like saying “*******” or the dreaded “N”word… Why is she still employed?
Sam I am
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:14pm“jzs
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:36pm
… what I did hear was fear of a white backlash in a place where racism is prevalent, a fear of living in a state where many assume you are in the country illegally based on the color of your skin.”
Gee, why would anyone in Arizona think that?
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:27pmI think people are being too critical. I’m a gringo (yeah, I know it’s meant to be offensive, but so what? Insults are best disarmed by a wall of apathy), and I can understand why she’d feel that way. I’m sure a lot of people here felt at least a little relief when the killer turned out to be a nut job instead of a Tea Party member who snapped (the fact that the Tea Party is being blamed for it anyway is beside the point).
I get the impression that she knows her attitude was selfish and she’s ashamed. Again, I can relate. I work in a profession where aircraft accidents can result if I don’t do my job correctly. Every time there is an aircraft accident, every person I’ve worked with in almost 20 years has immediately wondered the same questions: “What is the aircraft’s identification number? Did I work with that aircraft?”
I know that attitude is selfish, and I actually make an effort to suppress it so I can be more concerned about the accident victims than about my self-preservation. Still, the thought still comes into my head every time, and I don’t know a single person in my profession who would say they are any different (and I’ve met hundreds over the years, and this topic comes up a lot).
What I see is that Hernandez was brave enough to admit to something that she’s somewhat ashamed of. Please try to be a little more sympathetic to her.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:39pmIt should have read collective Scum of the country in Tuscon!
Report Post »So these Hispanics are now saying they are HAPPY that these people were murdered!
Buck Bagaw
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:06amIt’s Invaders, not“immigrants”, Puta!!
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:16amDefund NPR – National Progressive Radio!
Report Post »suttonea76
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:17am@JZS – How can you possibly disregard the slang term given to the shooter by virtue of his race and condone any part of her message when her goal was to determine the RACE FIRST and then the tragedy. You are in incompetent thinker and have no clue that racism comes from Hispanics also. You have gotten so hung up in MSM that you forget that white people can be victimized also by race. People like you are what‘s wrong in this country and we don’t need you opening up your pie hole to spew stupidity anymore. But we do defend your right to be stupid, we defend your right to be ignorant, we do defend your right to say things that make no sense and that are irrelevant. So congratulations for exercising your rights that are given to you regardless of how intelligently you use them.
Anyways, that lady is extremely racist as her main concern was race to avoid so called backlash against Latino/Hispanics. Just to add more fuel to the fire, there is currently a tv station labeled “Immigrante TV” if you use antennas in Texas. They talk about white people as racists and that the United States is hurting those trying to come into the country, but they FAIL to bring up that they are all breaking the law when not legally coming into this country. I wonder what idiot is funding this and why it is being allowed to air on my television. I am sorry, but we need to expedite the deportation of ALL illegal immigrant regardless of the impact on our economy. Health care and welfare costs would drastically drop while food prices would rise…I am willing to take that risk.
By the way, do we have to afford rights to those that aren’t legal American citizens? I never read that in our Constitution that foreigners were supposed to be given rights when they are illegally here to begin with. I am geniunely interested in this as I really don’t know what “rights” illegals should have. Don’t get me wrong, I would not hesitate to follow the law if illegals fell under that statute.
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:00pmTHE ASSASIN WAS GRINGO, BUT WHO PAYED FOR THE BULLITS?
Mexicans should be citizens because Mexico belongs to the USA. We won it in the Mexican War. Its time for US troops to jump in and destroy Mexico’s Drug Cartel Government. We can rape the land and steal its oil.
Report Post »naed5048
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 9:35pmdid you notice the crosshair in the NPR symbol?
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