Then she decides to go all Howard Zinn on her audience:
Some documentation if you would, please? Just how frequent were these supposed instances? "Latinos couldn't own property?" Talk about a blanket statement.Shortly after, Mrs. Obama began to list the civil rights offenses that plagued the Hispanic community at America’s hands in recent decades.“Back then,” she said, referring to 1929 and the start of the LULAC, “Latinos were being brutalized and killed by police and lynched by the KKK. ‘No Mexicans Allowed’ signs hung outside of restaurants and storefronts. Latinos often couldn’t own property, or serve on a jury. And if you walked into a public building, you’d often see not two water fountains, but three — one white, one black and one brown.”
This woman understands the role of a first lady about as well as I understand integral calculus.
Let's start here, toots: It doesn't involve injecting demographic poison into the national debate over the immutability of the nation's borders.
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