They all look alike
by digby
That’s right, all Americans look like Americans. Since Americans look like everyone.
This story from Gawker is about an interection between the conservative Governor of Georgia and a latina who asked him a question:
Deal addressed a variety of topics, including immigration, during a question and answer session sponsored by the UGA College Republicans Tuesday night.
“There’s a fundamental problem that can only be resolved at the Congressional level and that is to deal with the issue of children, and I presume you probably fit the category, children who were brought here,” said Deal who was looking toward Lizbeth Miranda, a Hispanic student who was standing up with others asking questions.
“I’m not an illegal immigrant. I’m not,” said Miranda. “I don’t know why you would have thought that I was undocumented. Was it because I look Hispanic?”
The governor replied: “I apologize if I insulted you. I did not intend to.”
Miranda and her colleagues in the school’s Undocumented Students Alliance found Deal’s assumption offensive, though judging from the boos she received, College Republicans in attendance were more offended by her reaction.
Those college Republicans undoubtedly assumed she was an “illegal” too. As they undoubtedly assume all Hispanics are “illegals” or, in any case, not Real Americans regardless of their citizenship.
This illustrates the problem for Republicans on this issue. To most Latinos, whether they hold American citizenship or not, demonizing the DREAM kids and all the other immigrants who are merely trying to eke out a living so they can feed their families (particularly when these haters claim that people from south of the border “destroy our way of life) is a sure sign that they too are seen in similar fashion.
But what are these Republicans going to do? They have a base full of people who are fearful xenophobes and are being egged on by the conservative industrial complex for profit. They’re stuck.
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