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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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From: tejek1/8/2010 6:58:32 PM
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G. Rivera on racial profiling and how poor Ricans got screwed by it:

COLBERT: "Your book, it fascinates me. I'm a little torn here. Umm, it's called HisPanic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S., does it really matter why we fear Hispanics? Isn't it more important that we fear Hispanics? Isn't that really the goal right now?"

RIVERA: "Driven by the right-wing talk show thugs, there’s a campaign against Hispanics and immigrants that has been very distressful."

COLBERT: "Campaign against them? They’re invading our country, sir."

RIVERA: "We’re scapegoating them. We're blaming them for everything. I’d be surprised… I wouldn't be surprised if Eliot Spitzer's hooker turns out to be an illegal on Lou Dobbs’s show, lead the show with it."

COLBERT: "Now Lou Dobbs is a friend of the show here."

RIVERA: "He’s no friend of mine."

A little later, the subject of the Irish surfaced:

COLBERT: "You say, are you saying that we shouldn't be blaming recent immigrants for our problems? We have a long tradition of doing that, sir. We blamed the Irish a hundred years ago and then the Italians, and the Irish helped us blame them. Why can’t the Hispanics join with the rest of us in blaming the Muslims? Then we’d all be together."

RIVERA: "It may come to that, but there is a maddening tendency once your group gets over the immigrant bridge to burn the bridge so no one else can get over it. The Irish definitely encountered the same kind of hostility. It must have been some equivalent to right-wing talk show thugs then too. You know, if you read the stories, they burned their quarantine centers. No Irish need apply. It was something that was very general."

Read more: newsbusters.org

A year and half later....maybe racial profiling ain't so bad:

thinkprogress.org

You've got to love wingers....they flip flop everywhere!
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