Arizona Republican: Middle Easterners ‘look Mexican’ and want ‘to cause harm’
Source: Raw Story
Arizona Republican: Middle Easterners ‘look Mexican’ and want ‘to cause harm’
By Stephen C. Webster
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:06 EDT
leading Muslim civil rights group said Wednesday that Republican Party officials in Arizona should repudiate a freshly minted congressional candidate after her Democratic opponent published video of her making several bizarre statements about “Middle Easterners.”
“If you know Middle Easterners, a lot of them, they look Mexican, you know, like a lot of people in South America,” tea party favorite Gabriela “Gabby” Mercer, who legally migrated from Mexico, says in the video (watch below). “Dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes. And they mix. They mix in. And those people, their only, their only goal in life is to cause harm to the United States. So, why do we want them here either legally or illegally?”
On Monday night, Mercer won the Republican nomination to face Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), and it wasn’t even close: She defeated her opponent, Jamie Vasquez, 64.6 percent to 35.4 percent. But even before the primary’s results were in, Grijalva republished the video of her remarks, highlighting snippets of an interview she gave Arizona politics publication The Western Free Press last June. The interview went virtually unnoticed too: according to Talking Points Memo, it only registered 215 views before Grijalva publicized it.
“They have found prayer rugs,” she adds in the video. “They have found copies of the Quran. So that tells you this is not just poor illegals who are trying to come to this country and find work. It’s bigger than that.”
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Palestinians, as if they aren't people or don't have children they love just like everyone else.
Ignorance, sadly, is universal.
Hope you are well!! 
She kept staring at me, so I smiled at her. Then she kind of said, "I hope you don't mind me asking this, but are you Native American?"
I nearly fell over. I don't know why she asked.. but maybe she was just curious. 
...is Okinawan. She and my son moved to PHX not too long ago and she found a job at a sushi restaurant. Her English is good.
She's had customers ask her why she's here, why she can't learn 'better' English, why doesn't she work somewhere where she doesn't have to speak to customers, etc. Um...she's Japanese and works at a sushi restaurant. But, she has such a positive outlook on things. 'But, I also have customers who want to know EVERYTHING about Okinawa!' She feels bad that she can't take the time to talk to them.
My DIL works her ass off and deals with an impossible schedule. My son works part time and goes to school full-time. She's so proud that she can help pay the bills. And, she makes his dinner every single nite even though she'll be at work when he gets home. She leaves him 'instructions' on how to heat it up and even has his plate and silverware laid out. How many friggin' Arizona women do that for their husbands?
I get to see them tomorrow! It's her 30th birthday!!! 
EDIT: Forgot to add...the first time she came to AZ and met a couple of my Nat. Amer. friends...she thought they were Japanese. 
Now, she's fascinated by all things NA.
And yes, I think I'll have to write it in a card. 
Arizona is now officially ahead of Texas on political racist/ethnic stupidity. I thought I'd never see the day we'd lose that title. Thank God, Goddess, or spirit head of your choice (or none).
Proof that they are pure evil!!!!!! 
Sometimes dumb goes clear thru to the bone....
" . . .those people, their only, their only goal in life is to cause harm to the United States."
. "you people," "those people"
Looks as if Ms. Mercer looks like a true republican.
Who knew? 
I tell people I come from Puerto Rico. They ask me what part of Mexico is that in. It truly is a gigantic country.
Maybe to a blithering idiot like a Teabagger, but not to anyone with an IQ in double digits.
