LAT Columnist Scolds Minorities: You're Not Angry Enough at Arnold!

September 13th, 2006 1:31 PM

Nobody likes a nag.  But liberal Dems are in danger of becoming the party of scolds.  First there was Tom Frank and his "What's the Matter With Kansas," scolding red-state Americans for being too dumb to realize it's in their interest to vote Democrat. Then the New York Times berated investors for reacting too enthusiastically to good economic news, driving up stock prices.

Now Los Angeles Times columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan in Not So 'Hot,' Arnold lashes Latinos and other minorities for being insufficently outraged over comments that Arnold Schwarzenegger recently made. Arnold, speaking of CA Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, said that Latina women with black blood are "very hot."

Garcia is "a Republican before she's a Latina," sniffed Kaplan as she wrote off as pure partisanship Garcia's good-natured reaction to Arnold's comment.  Who appointed Kaplan the arbiter of Latina identity, by the way?

Kaplan then trained her sights on other elected minority officials:

"Even more uninspiring is the so-what response by some Latino and black politicians to this whole affair."

"It's discouraging to see Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) and Sen. Martha Escutia (D-Whittier) blow off any negative implications of Arnold's remarks."

"The black acquiescence bothers me even more."

Darn those minorities, Kaplan seems to say: don't they know when they've been dissed? But isn't California the laid-back land of "can't we all get along"?  Apparently Kaplan doesn't want us to.