Tea Party members to 2 Hispanic Congressmen: 'Why don’t you go back to Mexico?'

[Joanne98]

As Kos pointed out yesterday Hispanics are moving away from the Republican Party: California, Colorado, Nevada Latinos crush GOP One reason is the pervasive anti-Hispanic racism expressed by the GOP's Tea Party allies, and their candidates like Sharron Angle. Now the Texas Observer has another example of the Tea Party's racism:

'Go Back to Mexico'

by Melissa del Bosque

A group of Tea Party activists in Washington D.C. recently told two Hispanic Texas border congressmen to "Go back to Mexico" as they were on their way to vote on the House floor.

Hinojosa, D-Mercedes, said he and Congressman Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, were confronted by five Tea Party supporters. "There were five men, all white," Hinojosa said.

"They first asked Silvestre Reyes, ‘Are you a congressman?’ ‘Yes, I’m from Texas,’ he answered. ‘Are you both congressmen?’ ‘Yes, I am a congressman too,’ Hinojosa replied. ‘Why don’t you go back to Mexico?," they said.

Lefty Coaster's diary :: ::
Melissa del Bosque doesn't mince words about the implications of the Republican Party's embrace of the Tea Party and its racism.

I put the blame at the feet of Republican conservatives and some Tea Party candidates like Sharron Angle who are throwing fuel on the fire this mid-term election. They don’t give a damn if they spur racial hatred, just as long as they win their elections. Take Angle for instance. She’s running her poisonous campaign ads that portray Latinos as a terrorist horde slinking along the border fence. Even worse is Georgia Republican state Rep. John Yates who advocates for killing people on sight if they cross the border illegally. Yates, who has served decades in Congress, said during a recent campaign forum that the U.S. government should drop flyers over northern Mexico warning they are going to "shoot to kill," if anyone crosses the border illegally. Yates thinks killing women and children is a perfectly logical public policy proposal. It’s scary stuff, folks.

And of course who can forget Joe Miller's admiration of the Berlin Wall (which came down 21 years ago today) and for their practice shooting those who tried to climb over that wall. This racism may not be offensive to the old white males from the South who run the Republican Party, but it is offensive to millions of Hispanic voters as Melissa del Bosque points out so eloquently.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/10/919084/-Tea-Party-members-to-2-Hispanic-Congressmen:-Why-dont-you-go-back-to-Mexico

[joeybee12]

1. Fortunately, I think it was Angle's blatant racism that doomed her...

nice to know most Nevadans don't tolerate that.

[texastoast]

2. NOOO! They can't go

Texas is not Texas without "Mexicans."

And I would have told them, "Why don't you go back to England, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.?"

[Tippy]

3. K&R...It is my prayer they will be able to help put a stop to this

Madness we are seeing and hearing today in our Country....

[CakeGrrl]

4. Certainly Senator-elect Rubio will denounce this...correct?

:sarcasm:

He's the Pubs' Hispanic version of Michael Steele.

It'd be high irony if this was said to him, with being Cuban-American an extra rub.

[Raine]

5. Tea partiers need to go back under that rock they slimed

their way out from under. :puke:

edit: added one word

[KingFlorez]

6. I would have said "Why don't you go back to Hell?"

[AspenRose]

7. Word!

:thumbsup:

[whistler162]

8. A nice retort would be... Sorry nut my

Great-great... grandfather was killed by the Mexicans at Mission San Antonio de Valero and after there little brains go boom add "otherwise known as the Alamo.".

Propably not true but given that hispanics have a longer history in the southern part of the US than us white people.

[political_Dem]

9. And people voted to put these Teabagging cretins in office.

That says a lot about the American people and the state of race-relations in this country.