NPR Contributor Heaves Sigh of 'Brown Relief' That Tucson Shooter Was a 'Gringo'
It had to come eventually. National Public Radio simply could not keep from using Saturday's Tucson massacre to do some race-baiting and to bash Arizona's attempts to control its souther border.
NPR brought on Daisy Hernandez, former editor of ColorLines magazine, on Wednesday to express her "brown relief [that] the Tucson killer turned out to be a gringo" (h/t tipster sic721).
It's safe to say there was a collective sigh of brown relief when the Tucson killer turned out to be a gringo. Had the shooter been Latino, media pundits wouldn't be discussing the impact of nasty politics on a young man this week — they'd be demanding an even more stringent anti-immigrant policy. The new members of the House would be stepping over each other to propose new legislation for more guns on the border, more mothers to be deported, and more employers to be penalized for hiring brown people. Obama would be attending funerals and telling the nation tonight that he was going to increase security just about everywhere.
In short, the only reason the nation is taking a few days to reflect on the animosity in politics today is precisely that the shooter was not Latino.
It's painfully ironic that a gay Latino man came to the aid of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the storm of gunfire. Daniel Hernandez, an intern with the congresswoman, ran to Rep. Giffords and helped to stop the bleeding. If a judge hadn't blocked provisions of Arizona's SB 1070 law, the intern's surname would have easily qualified him as a target for police under different circumstances on Saturday. As Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, Ariz., told reporters: "The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous, and unfortunately Arizona has become sort of the capital."
The crass, racialist attitude of this segment pretty much speaks for itself, but there are a few things worth noting.
Daniel Hernandez's surname would not have "qualified him as a target for police" under Arizona's contentious immigration law. That law explicitly forbade police from using a person's race or ethnicity as the sole factor in deciding to inquire as to an individual's immigration status. So that assertion is simply wrong.
But Hernandez's claim derives from the fact that she doesn't bother differentiating between legal and illegal immigrants. The former make up more than 30 percent of Arizona's population, and include the intern in question. Hernandez's heroic actions would only be "painfully ironic" if he were an illegal immigrant - and therefore a target of SB 1070 - which clearly he is not.
New House members would only be "stepping over each other to propose new legislation for more guns on the border" if the issue were border security - in other words, if the shooter turned out to be an illegal immigrant. And if that were the case - if a sitting congresswoman had been shot and nearly killed by someone in the country illegally - they would be derelict in their duty if they didn't do just that.
Hernandez concludes the segment by admitting that "it was only after I saw the shooter's gringo surname that I was able to go on and read the rest of the news about those who lost their lives on Saturday and those who, like Rep. Giffords, were severely wounded."
Wait, she had to check on the shooter's race before reading on? Remind me, why was Juan Williams fired?
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I've Got Something Warm and Brown for Daisy......,
Submitted by BBallleaper on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:45pm.
but I can tell you now she's not going to like it!!
brown relief?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:49pm.
I thought she was saying she was full of crap and finally got to go.
I do wonder why she made a point to say a "gay latino" when it had absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Guess I'm just insensitive or something.
-Jon
Neanderthal Political Racists
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:55pm.
Defund now.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
We in Arizona
Submitted by olddog3006 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:57pm.
have known for years; If your enemy brings a gun to the fight, you bring a young, gay, latino. The odds are the same.
~....
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:00pm.
Remind me, why was Juan Williams fired?
For acting like Faux News is a real news network and treating the rightwingnuts he worked with like they were decent people.
It was only a matter of time.
(token post on this thread so they aren't all filled with scatological references)
:o)
Submitted by HelenS on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:14pm.
Love it :o)
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
I don't live in the Southwest, but isn't gringo derogatory?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:13pm.
Just askin.
BTW, for the record, I'm a northeast honkie. That one I know is derogatory.
Only derogatory if uttered by
Submitted by Seashell on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:20pm.
Only derogatory if uttered by a conservative.
SOL
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:34pm.
Yes it is.It is a racial slur.
not necessarily
Submitted by mom_rox on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:03pm.
We have Gringo's Mexican Kitchen in the Houston area. I've only eaten there once, but it was pretty good Tex-Mex.
Gringo
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:25pm.
The word gringo is a derogatory term used in Latin America to refer to white English-speakers, usually Americans, especially in the context of alleged economic, cultural and political interference in Latin America.
H/T Spanish translator
That's an outrage. I'm sending Al Sharpton down on Monday.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 11:18pm.
This must not stand.
(The demonstration will commence right after he eats, of course.)
Please don't send The Rev
Submitted by American.Patriot on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:22am.
We don't need that race baiter in the SouthwestNPR Is Going Hard Left (possible NB tip at end)
Submitted by andrew - des moines on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:15pm.
I listen to NPR daily, and they have been going hard left lately (more than usual), despite suggestions that their recent managerial firing was an attempt to avoid criticism with the new congress. Monday, they joined the Kos crowd in targeting Palin over her map -- with no mention of similar maps by Dems. Wednesday, they had some WaPo guest on to criticize Palin over the 'blood libel' comment. Most disturbingly, for several weeks they have had regular calls to action for their listeners to contact their congressmen to support funding for NPR. This is part of their '170 Million Americans' campaign to lobby congress, something explicitly forbidden for NPR to engage in. The campaign is featured and linked on the Iowa Public Radio website. This alone is worth a NewsBusters story.
wow
Submitted by michiganruth on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 8:01pm.
disgusting comment. let's say the shooter had been a Latino. if he'd been a so-called "Hispanic- American," a citizen or here legally, there wouldn't have been ANY talk of immigration restrictions. that's a straw man and shame on her for pretending otherwise.
if he'd been a Latino here ILLEGALLY, then oh yeah you BETCHA we'd be having a conversation about immigration reform.
imagine someone going on the radio and saying, of the Washington DC sniper case a few years ago, "As white person, I was really happy to hear that the shooters were black." uh-huh.
Namecalling, Polarizing, Racist. Also known as NPR
Submitted by Humblepie on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 8:14pm.
It's sad, but I'm no longer shocked by the left. To take a tragedy like this and politicize it.is scraping the bottom of the barrel. One lone idiot wanting his 15 minutes of fame, guns down innocent people. Instead of helping, individuals like this Daisy Hernandez and the NPR use their forum to spout their disinformation and rhetoric.
To see racism and bigotry in America, Daisy, NPR and Sheriff Dupnik need look no further then themselves. Instead of placing the blame squarely on the shooter, they wish to spew their intolerance of others to the masses. In essence, taking a cheap shot to tout their agenda.
Hola bro...
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 8:15pm.
You can't always tell a person's ethnicty nowadays by names. There is enough racial/ethnicity mixing that racial lines have a lot of blur to them. I remember clearly years ago when I worked with two brothers and I had no idea they considered themselves 'Mexican' (but US natives). They didn't have really Latino sounding names and they only looked like they weren't Irish.
Had the shooter been brown - all hell would have broken out.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 8:25pm.
Had the shooter been brown - all hell would have broken out.
Hmm..
Had the shooter been Latino, media pundits wouldn't be discussing the impact of nasty politics on a young man this week — they'd be demanding an even more stringent anti-immigrant policy.
Lachlan addressed that Daisy did not distinguish between legal immigrant and illegal immigrant; and, it's true.
Had an illegal immigrant (an illegal brownie - to continue Daisys' form of lingo), tried to assassinate a sitting US Congresswoman, and succeeded in killing a Federa Judge (and several innocent civilians) all hell would have broken out - amongst the majority (and the conservative pundits) in the US. Calls for action, to be sure.
On the other hand, had this been the case -- one can rest assured that the entire national MSM media, and leftist groups, (and I bet the WH and Eric Holder) would have still been playing the same old game; looking for what caused the poor disenfranchized young person suckered into this country perpahps by greedy corporate America only trying to line it's pockets at the expense of the American worker, to be driven to such an extreme act.
Am I wrong?
(;~/ gary
Wrong?
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 8:30pm.
Not at all, : (
whew, good thing Daisy does not profile
Submitted by mom_rox on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:08pm.
from the article:
Daisy Hernandez: " My eyes scanned the mobile papers. I held my breath. Finally, I saw it: Jared Loughner. Not a Ramirez, Gonzalez or Garcia."
How can I be so dense??
Submitted by SaseboSailor on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:09pm.
Now I get it.
I've been trying to figure out for days why they are absolutely slobbering over Mr. Hernandez as a "Hero..Hero...Hero!!". I certainly think he showed a certain amount of cajones (oops) for aiding Ms. Giffords but what about the people who wrestled the gun from this nutjob? And what about the guy that died taking the bullets for his wife? Aren't they as big a Hero as Mr. Hernandez?
Thanks to the post above, I now get it. He's not only Latino, he's a GAY Latino!!! That would elevate him over some guy who simply took bullets to protect his wife! Or a couple of guys who actually stopped the shooter!
How can I be so dense??
Many Americans are victims of
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:19pm.
Many Americans are victims of illegals all across the border and it happens every day, I guess their lives don't count as much...
According to a website
Submitted by nkviking75 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:19pm.
According to a website provided by no less than Princeton U., "gringo" is a disparaging term for white people. I'd call this Latina woman a racist, but as we all know, only white people are capable of being racist. (sarcasm off)
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
As an involuntrary part owner of National Proletariat Radio...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:20pm.
...I demand this racist idiot be fired immediately.
I hope the repubs are paying attention and will point this out when it comes time to rip PBS off the government teet once and for all.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Daisy Hernandez enamored shooter is not Hispanic
Submitted by fretsward on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:22pm.
This racist pap perfectly compliments her well-worn celebratory poncho and mismatched stilettos. It reads as if she is infatuated by her own reflection in the pool of urine she left on the floor.
As expected, her writing feigns to represent the moral high ground, which hits all around the mark like two or three illegal alien carpenters.
Must those who are conditioned to pretentious chattering always live in the shantytown sanctuary cities and taxpayer-funded Section 8 Barrios of dialect?
Daisy Hernandez panders and pirouettes with outlandish brown arrogance - graceful and exquisite as the apotheosis in the dirty diaphanous nightshirt with depleted ammo, and a rickety AK antedating assured martyrdom.
It’s nothing but a perpetuation of the overpraised dilapidated third-world-party crusade subsumed by the gabbling reminiscences that tap into smash and grab La Raza identity.
For a demographic that feigns concerned Americans are the racist monster hiding under their beds, The National Council of La Raza, inventing illegal aliens are immigrants, racist Hispanic Studies textbooks, claiming the Southwest as stolen land, the loyalty, allegiance, and holding all things Mexico dear says otherwise.
The prolegomenous babbler shrouded in rapacious speculation, who trails sagacity, then resolves to slipshod garrulity and pusillanimous diatribes.
The bane of the sanctimonious hypocrite as sanctimonious hypocrite.
Mocking the proclamation of American citizens while they mourn is unbearable, and as expected, squatters and Straw-women will pretend struggle to authenticity and verisimilitude.
Illegal and illicit in this regard, are of course, duplicitous. To present that the well-worn pathetic excessive weepy sentimental Hispanic dog and pony show will somehow endure backlash for this tragedy is of the lowest order.
I surmise the Mexican classical race mythology masquerading as the concerned neighbor is the gift that doesn't fall far from the tree.
But then again, after reading her racist anxieties that no Hispanic surnames were reported as the shooter, this slap in the face gets my approval as the new standard for the race to the bottom.
And in true mountebank reparation, she patronizes while admitting the infirmity faced by those who are categorically not taking this issue facetiously.
Apologies are not putative, as are making justifications for those who possess the smoking gun of mental impedance.
As expected, this particular guise is contrived to evoke racial pap minus dialogue while the sentries are distracted.
We have become familiarized with reflex traders who have chosen by lack of depth to display their hatred as one would a tattoo.
Attempted corroboration of racists because they are of the identical race would be the same as giving accolades to a bank-robber for not speaking Spanish to the English-speaking teller he points his gun at...
Wow, that had to happen,
Submitted by IVote on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:37am.
Wow, that had to happen, too. Caught up and falling onto her own politically correct sword.
I can understand her comment
Submitted by American.Patriot on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:31am.
Every night on the local news I cant help but notice that most of the crime is by blacks and Latinos. Guess it makes sense when you live in a state where gringos are less than 50% of the population, and the state is classified as a minority - majority.Stop smoking through acupuncture
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