Latinos Get Played Again by Democrats
SAN DIEGO -- With Democrats gathered in Philadelphia for their national convention, Latinos must accept the hard truth: The Democratic Party, for which they've done so much, has not done right by them.
In fact, Latinos are being humiliated by Democrats, who they assume are in their corner -- mostly because, when it comes to Latinos, Republicans alternate between the profane and the offensive.
You might think that a community that has given a majority of their votes to Democrats in the last 14 presidential elections would get some respect from party leaders. You'd be wrong.
Thanks to hacked emails released by WikiLeaks, we know that a clueless DNC staffer named Rebecca Christopher -- in a message dated May 6 -- flippantly used a Mexican food reference to describe Democratic Latino outreach efforts. Christopher wrote to colleagues:
"Attached is a script for a new video we'd like to use to mop up some more taco bowl engagement, and demonstrate [that] Trump actually isn't trying."
And the Democratic Party is trying to get Hispanic votes? With what -- more "taco bowl engagement"?
That condescending and offensive phrase is Christopher's alone. She could have chosen any words to get her point across, and she went with those.
This whole food fixation sounds familiar. On Cinco de Mayo, Donald Trump mocked Hispanic voters by tweeting a photo of him eating a taco bowl with the caption: "I love Hispanics!"
A Democrat running for president would never say something so insulting, right? Wanna bet?
In 2008, during her first White House bid, Clinton tried to inspire Hispanics in a Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas by insisting that Americans' problems are connected even though "we treat them as though one is guacamole and one is chips."
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