Texas Tea Party candidate: Calling immigrants ‘wetbacks’ is as normal as breathing air

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Texas Tea Party candidate: Calling immigrants ‘wetbacks’ is as normal as breathing air
By Arturo Garcia
Monday, February 24, 2014 21:40 EST

Texas Tea Party Republican Chris Mapp’s bid to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has garnered attention not for his policy views, but for his use and defense of the anti-Latino slur “wetbacks” during a meeting with one of the state’s biggest newspapers.

The Huffington Post reported that the 53-year-old businessman used the term during an interview earlier this month with the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News, saying that “ranchers should be allowed to shoot on sight anyone illegally crossing the border on to their land.” He also reportedly referred to President Barack Obama as a “socialist son of a b*tch.”

The Morning News noted Mapp’s remarks while endorsing Cornyn on Feb. 16, in part because of Cornyn’s support for immigration reform. Meanwhile, Mapp was listed among the rest of the other GOP contenders, who were described as “less informed, little known and generally offer extreme, vague or impractical ideas.”

Mapp subsequently defended the remark to the San Antonio Express-News, calling use of the slur “as normal as breathing air in South Texas.” He has faced criticism from not only state Democrats, but Cornyn and other state conservatives.



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/24/texas-tea-party-candidate-calling-immigrants-wetbacks-is-as-normal-as-breathing-air/

[gopiscrap]

1. Ignorant racist fucker!

[politicaljunkie41910]

36. When you surround yourself with like minded racists, you don't view yourself as racist.

Which is why the Senator from Arizona can say with a straight face, that there's no discrimination in his home state of Arizona.

"...Arizona state Sen. Al Melvin (R) said there's no discrimination in his state, so he's not worried about the consequences of a bill that would allow businesses to invoke religious beliefs to discriminate against gay customers. ..."

"...Melvin insisted he didn't know a single Arizona resident who would discriminate against "a fellow human being. ..."

"Really? Discrimination doesn't exist in Arizona?" Cooper responded, saying he's seen plenty of discrimination in his own state of New York.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/al-melvin-arizona_n_4851142.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

This is in no way intended to hijack this thread. Only to make a point that racists are the last ones to realize they're racists.

[nytemare]

2. It seems like the tea party is just including racist jabs in their daily talking points now.

I hope that people see this, and show up to vote this November.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Is it possible...the Teahadists can be even more offensive to everybody?!?!

[Beacool]

11. They got all their bases covered.

Racist.....check
Misogynist.....check
Xenophobic.....check
Batshit crazy.....check

Did I miss anything?

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Homophobes. nt

[Beacool]

16. Damn, I knew I was forgetting something.

Homophobic.....check

[awoke_in_2003]

17. It is hard...

To keep up with everyone they hate

[Beacool]

38. You said it.

It's hard to keep up with their laundry list of bigotries.

[geomon666]

4. Let's see him say some shit like that in a latino neighborhood.

See if he enjoys that fine Texas air that day, son of a bitch.

[onehandle]

5. Tea Party = Republican Party. Time for media to stop differentiating them. nt

[Jake Stern]

14. It's hard to believe there was a time 50+ years ago

when the Republican Party wasn't full of whack-a-loons. Back when the party had people like Ike and Nelson Rockefeller running the show and you could find Republicans who openly supported things like integration, the Voting Rights Act and, yes, unions.

Even "Mr. Conservative" Barry Goldwater would be drummed out of today's GOP because of his support of reproductive choice and GLBT rights and his vigorous opposition to the takeover of the GOP by religious zealots.

[lib87]

23. I Agree

Rethugs rarely ever denounce hate speech such as this coming from their own party. If they were against is, they would have made it crystal clear by now.

[Skittles]

6. he is a lying, racist asshole

I've lived in Texas for decades and can assure you that only lying, racist, ignorant teabagger-types use words like that

[billh58]

10. And those are his

good qualities...

[Beacool]

7. Well, with opponents like Mapp, Cornyn has nothing to worry about.

The Huffington Post reported that the 53-year-old businessman used the term during an interview earlier this month with the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News, saying that “ranchers should be allowed to shoot on sight anyone illegally crossing the border on to their land.” He also reportedly referred to President Barack Obama as a “socialist son of a b*tch.”

Yep, that's a winning strategy....

[blackspade]

8. Please proceed Governor....

[QuestForSense]

9. Where's the slur?

Odd that it's not even mentioned in the story.

[me b zola]

26. "Wetback" is not a racist slur to you?

[QuestForSense]

27. Of course it is, but he is not quoted in the excerpt or in the article using that term.

The word appears in the caption, but he is not quoted in the text. The reporter didn't include the actual words he used, which I think is strange. Not quoting him MINIMIZES his racism.

[LanternWaste]

48. "saying that while he did use it..."

"Mapp insisted nothing was wrong with the slur in a lengthy post on his campaign’s Facebook page on Saturday, saying that while he did use it..."

[Thinkingabout]

12. This is pathetic, there is not a good excuse for his actions. Why these candidates are

Allowing this talk is beyond foolish, we should continue to remind the candidates of whom they associate. Tea party dumb. It does not serve anything good.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

15. Let's quite mincing words: Conservatism = White nationalism

We've seen a massive resurgence in racism since 2009, due to the fact that the Republican Party is so lacking in conscience that they gleefully stoke the fires of bigotry, thinking it's their ticket back to power.

[KansDem]

18. I believe it...

...in Texas.

TUESDAY, FEB 18, 2014

Texas’ toxic air: Major investigation reveals how unregulated pollution from fracking is making people sick

The Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas is the 400-mile-long site of one of the country’s biggest energy booms and, as a result of the thousands of oil and gas wells operating there, of dangerous air pollution. How dangerous? Residents complain of asthma, splitting headaches and other health concerns, all attributed to the air quality described by one family as “so bad that their lungs feel as if they will burst.”

--more--
Salon

[yuiyoshida]

19. I guess to him, I am probably a

Chink, a Jap, a Nip, A gook.. he seems to have quite a vocabulary. HATERS do not need to be running any freaking public office!

[sakabatou]

21. And I'd be a kyke

If that's how it's spelled.

[sakabatou]

20. Racist Republicans/Tea Partyists?

NO SURPRISE!

[lunasun]

22. but early on so many swore the teabaggers were not racist

and Mapp does not think it is offensive so

[Kablooie]

25. I get the feeling that being openly racist is a plus within the Tea Party.

The more racist you are, the more they admire you.
It's just when votes are needed outside their little toilet bowl that it becomes a problem.

[Android3.14]

31. And stupidity doesn't hurt either

Was it Zappa that coined the phrase, "A little stupid on the side"?

[bvf]

28. Just putting a toe out there to see what some people will respond positively to.

If he or she weren't fairly confident there was a significant audience for such tripe, no teabagger (i.e., rat in Rove's 2016 laboratory) would ever spout crap like this. That asshat Nugent's people figure the same thing.

[JoePhilly]

33. The GOP has been telling the Tea Party types that this kind of

attitude is ok, for years.

They've just discouraged them from voicing it out loud.

When one of them runs in a GOP primary, they tend to think their views are held much more broadly than they actually are. And that its time to voice them.

The GOP has been telling them (privately) that they agree with these views. NOw when its a primary candidate, they'll act shocked.

[MADem]

29. I wonder how many times that racist shit-bird has warbled along to "The Yellow Rose of Texas"

without having a clue as to what the song is about?

What's "normal as breathing air" is for decent people to shun assholes like that.

[Ash_F]

30. He's just there so Cornyn looks less crazy. /nt

[JoePhilly]

32. The Tea Party is the GOP's id.

The Tea Party is the part of the GOP that is the most racist, most emotional, most likily to blurt out something in appropriate.

Its their id. That part of the psyche that has not conscience and no filter. The part that wants what it wants, now. Its their inner toddler.

So, when the GOP establishment has to deal with one of these nutjobs in a primary, the best way to deal with it is to encourage the id to act out.

The GOP normally works to suppress their id. They remind these nut jobs to only use racist terms within certain circles. They wink and nod at them to let them knew they agree, but that its not socially acceptable to blurt out those things no matter how much they want to.

So they best way to beat one of these nuts, is to let them loose. Let them speak their mind.

Sooner of later, they'll blurt out something insane. And then be surprised that everyone thinks they are crazy.

[wocaonimabi]

34. Guess Mapp has a lock on the Republican Vote now

So why is a racist Republican saying typical racist Republican things even news anymore?

[jsr]

35. Mexican restaurant owners get new trial because of juror’s ‘wetback’ statement

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/08/20/news/court/mexican-restaurant-owners-get-new-trial-because-of-jurors-wetback-statement/

Mexican restaurant owners get new trial because of juror’s ‘wetback’ statement
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff
Posted Aug. 20, 2013, at 6:20 p.m.

PORTLAND, Maine — A federal judge Monday granted a new trial to the owners of three Mexican restaurants after it was discovered a juror discussed the case and made ethnic slurs against the defendants during the trial in March.

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No, normal people don't use it.

[BarbaRosa]

37. I wonder how he feels about the term Teabagger?

[Jack Rabbit]

39. If only Breitbart were still living . . . .

He would produce a videotape of Mr. Mapp speaking at length and not using the word "wetback" and offer a nominal sum of money to anyone who can prove that he has ever used it.

[KamaAina]

40. Has Ted Cruz slapped him down yet?

I'm waiting...

[Guaguacoa]

41. Unfortunately it's common in spanish

language to either use mojados (wet's) or pollos (chickens). This side of the border pollos is far most common.

[WhiteTara]

42. Ignorant racist cracker.

[El Shaman]

43. And the S-

O-B wants to be senator!!?

[NickB79]

44. Looking mighty pale inside that big tent of theirs

I expect a group of Teabaggers to mistake Fake-Tan Boehner for a Mexican any day now and try to get him deported.

[freshwest]

45. He's confused breathing with farting, obviously. n/t

[greiner3]

46. So, to be fair, the 'new' term for a Tea Party member is the 'Tea Bagger';

Jus saying.

[olddad56]

47. it is as normal as breathing air to a bigot.