Tancredo on Sotomayor, "A brown woman..."

[vaberella]

Now...I didn't get to see this vid and MSNBC conveniently kept this part of out of their questioning...but how can he be taken seriously after this comment. What I found interesting is that much the way "Black Bitch" is used to emphasize the race of the woman and as a double insult (ie Blackness is as bad as bitch)...Tancredo played the same game with Sotomayor by emphasizing "brown". This is the first time I've seen this used for Latina women, and I'm sure it won't be the last. When I saw that...all I could think was, "welcome to the club..."

The GOP has taken race way too far and Tancredo (who is of Italian descent, like I thought he was) is a mad man with loose lips and I have the feeling more and more of this shit is going to be coming out. I would love to see Tancredo and Pat Buchanan on screen together because I know they'd let loose a slew of racist epitaphs on screen. At that point, I hope he gets fired---Pat that is.

Edit to include vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSliLDRJqy8

Black bitches and Brown women are running amok.

[EFerrari]

1. A minority woman asserting the value of her life experience is a racist.

How very Republican.

[vaberella]

8. That's how they role. I've noticed that the Republican Latina pundit

has been invisible as of late on CNN.

[BlooInBloo]

2. It's always funny to see just how PROUD they are of being bigots.

[EFerrari]

3. And as if the idea that you should be judged by your peers is unheard of.

LOL

[Karenina]

4. THE WORLD IS WATCHING!

USA! USA!! USA!!!

[MADem]

5. That's WONDERFUL!

Get it ALL on video--every last word, from every complaining racist! You can't unring those pixels!

Tancredo should have listened to his parents and grandparents better; they'd probably have been able to tell him stories of pretty bitter hatred and discrimination towards people of his ethnicity. It just might curl his combed over, poorly dyed hair....

[Phx_Dem]

6. ROLF! Has he seen her? Her skin is whiter than mine.

But because she's a Latina, she's automaticallyt "brown." Uh huh. Racist much, GOP?

Keep it up "boys," so we won't be subjected to the tyranical GOP rule for decades to come!

[vaberella]

9. The Black race is called the Black Rainbow. The dean of my school looks white but is Black.

To them there is only Black and White---skin tone means nothing. So Latina's are looked upon by bigots as sort of a man-made race---black and white mixed to get Brown. It's absolutely ridiculous, but this seems to be the reasoning I've heard.

[starroute]

30. I've wondered about that

I noticed a while back that any given basketball team is likely to comprise a spectrum of five different skin tones -- only one of which would conventionally be described as white.

Given that white Europeans are mostly descended from a very small group of people who managed to beat their way across the tundra to Europe during the Ice Age -- and who were probably kind of Polynesian-looking to begin with, until a combination of low sunlight and genetic drift turned them into today's bleached-out populations -- it does seem bizarre to want to lump the rich diversity of the rest of the world into a single category.

But then, I learned back when I studied linguistics in the college that humans don't categorize things as "A or B" but as "A or non-A." And when it comes to social categorizations, "A" is typically the dominant group and "non-A" is everybody else. "A" is men and "non-A" is women, children, gays, old people, and intelligent parrots. "A" is whites and "non-A" is black/brown/beige/bronze/golden/whatever. You can tell a lot about the power relationships from the way the words work.

[vaberella]

34. Yup. I learned that as well. Antrhopology though, linguistics was mandatory.

The most interesting aspect of this is if you get a chance to read up on Christopher Columbus and the usage of names in order to show ownership and dominance. It was interesting in that regard as well. There's always the dynamic of Us versus the Other.

[ClarkUSA]

7. And they keep on digging, no matter how big that hole gets...

[vaberella]

10. It's like they don't see it.

I don't want to say O is playing Chess. But he is making moves that he must have an idea would be blown into. It's like he was wanting this to happen and what's great is that Sotomayor is superbly qualified and one of, if not most qualified for the position.

[ClarkUSA]

16. Tancredo has an axe to grind against the GOP, who he feels marginalized him during his 2008 prez run

Gingrich is prepping the base for a 2012 presidential run while Rush wants to max out his audience numbers because that's what his pricy gig at Clear Channel is all about. None of them really give a shit about 2010 midterms. It's a fugly intra-party war and it's crippling the Republican chances of ever getting out of the minority, which must give Pres. Obama a delightful chuckle with Michelle on their date nights.

[omega minimo]

20. Does he always yell? Maybe they aren't "marginalizing" him. They're trying to turn down the volume

He's like a crazy used car TV salesman.

Oh wait, that was Dubya.

[vaberella]

24. I think he was getting angry at Sanchez for not really letting him rant on about La Raza. n/t

[omega minimo]

28. The peak of his tantrum seemed like he wanted to live up to Rush and Nuke's madness

[ClarkUSA]

32. He yelled at David Schuster in the same way later. MSNBC ran the tape in a loop yesterday.

Must be his new MO. :D

[vaberella]

35. Yeah, he was getting at Shuster for the same reason.

Shuster was basically calling his crap, crap and was talking over him and so due to his frustration he starts turning into a Limbaugh at AIPAC by sort of hopping in his seat and yelling at the top of his lungs.

[ClarkUSA]

40. In those moments, Tancredo transformed into the id of the Republican base.

Whew... I wonder how many Republican moderates are left in the party base after this past week?

[ClarkUSA]

26. During his short-lived prez run, he didn't. He's become unplugged since he's been out of office.

He's like a crazy used car TV salesman.

Oh wait, that was Dubya.

Aren't all wingnuts like used-car salesman, whether they yell or not, just because they are such phony sleezeballs (see Mitt Romney)?

[omega minimo]

29. Mitt's a good one, then there's

[ClarkUSA]

31. Oh yeah.

:rofl:

[omega minimo]

33. Got a nice little Chrysler down here ya just gotta see.......

:spray: He also reminds me of those scary puppets in that old Speed Racer era kid's show...........

[ClarkUSA]

38. I wasn't around then but that sounds about right, no pun intended.

Isn't the entire GOP leadership a lame freakshow though? Everytime I turn on to the latest political news, I just sit back with a grin/grimace. ;)

[omega minimo]

45. That's why I don't watch it.

The man from Media Matters was amazing -- calm, patient -- how do they sit there and deal with these total buffoons? -- and at the very end, he laughed, a big beautiful smile. Glad someone can stand to be in the same frame with the liars and correct the record.

[ClarkUSA]

48. That's wise. It takes a strong stomach to take it all in.

how do they sit there and deal with these total buffoons?

It's their job. They're trained to be clam at all times and to smile at the end of an interview, no matter what. From a personal standpoint, they probably also enjoy having a front seat to the GOP party's freakshow implosion. :D

[bleever]

11. "...a brown woman..." comes at 8:00.

Tancredo is a gift...to Democrats.

[vaberella]

22. Yes it comes at the end. That was the most poignant statement to me.

The whole thing was a racist rant, but that statement just got me...since it was the first time I ever heard it. Next to Michael Steele and that fool Gingrich...I don't know which is better.

[bleever]

59. He doesn't have a clue as to how he comes across.

"Brown woman", being created as a term by a guy who built his "legacy" on keeping (non-Italian) immigrants out, is just a giant, pounding, red thumb of a self-inflicted wound on the GOP.

[struggle4progress]

12. s4p on Tancredo: "A transparent hatemonger ..."

[dem629]

13. How did "Black Bitch" come into this?

[vaberella]

23. I already explained in my statement. It's to compare the usage.

This was the first time I've ever seen the colour factor used as an insult towards Latino/Latinas. A common one when a racist throws an insult they like making the race even more of insult. As in Black bitch...as in to stress that bitch is not enough of an insult. The race is also an insult or an epitaph to stress their hate. In this case, Tancredo stressed Brown woman in order to direct his criticism. ie..."That Brown woman...." or "A brown woman..." as though her skin colour gives way to all the negative stereotypes about her and it's a direction of insults.

Hence the reason I brought in "Black bitch," this is the first time I've ever seen it used towards people of Latin descent and I've heard many.

[northernlights]

27. didn't poppy bush refer to Jeb's kids

as the little brown ones? Or something to that effect?

[vaberella]

36. I don't know so I can't tell you. n/t

[alsame]

46. I remember hearing that, years ago. Yes, it's true - here's

a link. Unbelievable.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1273897.html

[vaberella]

50. Unbelievable!! Damn, racists even to their own family. n/t

[alsame]

51. Shocking, isn't it? That a grandparent could be racist toward

their own flesh and blood?

What a WORLD of difference between the Dunhams with Barack and the Bushes with Jeb's kids.

[MadMaddie]

57. Yes he did.

[me b zola]

14. Check out the comments on youtube

Racism isn't enough, they have to venture into homophobia. Time for a little DUing.

[Odin2005]

15. The closet racists are comming out from under their rocks.

:puke:

[progressoid]

17. "who is of Italian descent, like I thought he was"

Huh?

[vaberella]

21. Oh this was in discussion in another thread.

People wanted to know the origin of the name Tancredo because they didn't see the name as a "white" name as in he had some sort of immigrant background. Yet, he's spouting these rather racially charged statements. Some thought his name was of Latino origins, and I thought it was Italian.

Link below:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8440358#8440431

[progressoid]

60. Oh, thanks.

[krispos42]

55. It was in the interview.

The CNN host mentioned it to Tancredo.

[omega minimo]

18. Does Tancredo know he's brown?

:shrug:

[Cha]

19. He must be hoping no one notices..

<snip>
"Tancredo was born in Denver, Colorado to Adeline Lombardi and Gerald Tancredo. Both sets of his grandparents emigrated from Italy."

Fun facts..

"A former Roman Catholic, Tancredo is now a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.<11> Tancredo is married to Jackie Tancredo. They met at Drake Junior High School as teachers, and married in 1977.<12> They have two children and five grandchildren.

On February 3, 2009 the Denver Post revealed that Tancredo has probably lost a significant amount of money invested in hedge funds with Agile Group<13>, a Boulder-based investment company with substantial investments in Bernie Madoff's investment firm."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo

[Hepburn]

25. Hepburn on Tancredo, "An asshole no matter what color...." n/t

[vaberella]

37. +1.

:rofl:

[Joe Chi Minh]

39. God forbid that she should be stopped in a motor vehicle while in possession

of an olivey skin.

[rockymountaindem]

41. Don't forget he's kinda sorta unofficially running for Senate in 2010

This is a big shot in his foot.

[vaberella]

44. You're kidding right? What a fool!! n/t

[rockymountaindem]

47. I'm not kidding. He quit his House seat but has said he'd be interested in running

People were speculating that he might run against Salazar, which would have been an interesting time. But now Salazar's not running, and the Dems have a much softer candidate in Bennett. However, the Repub. big names seem to be lining up for the race for Gov. wherein Governor Ritter has had an extremely lackluster record over the past 6 years and hasn't displayed much political savvy. That has the potential to be a real humdinger.

Tancredo for Senate was, and is, a quixotic joke, but I hope he tries just for laughs and so that maybe we'll see him depart from the scene once and for all.

[depakid]

42. And this guy is repeatedly put on TV why?

:shrug:

[firedupdem]

43. Step on a pigs tail

and that mofo will squeal!!! The pigs were squealing this week! Woooooo!


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[saltpoint]

49. Tancredo continues to disgrace himself generally and on race especially.

As abomindable as anything from the Lester Maddox era, IMO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Maddox

[Number23]

52. Shee-it. The world should be so lucky

Black bitches and Brown women are running amok.

If black and brown women ran the world... oh, I get the shivers just thinking about it.

EVERYBODY had better have their crap together TIGHT and RIGHT. There are few people capable or even the slightest bit interested in hearing somebody whine, bitch and moan LESS than a sista.

[MadMaddie]

58. Ain't that the truth!!

[AspenRose]

61. LOL

:rofl:

[billyoc]

53. This is the "We should bomb Mecca" guy. He's a jewel of consistency.

:rofl:

[krispos42]

54. And Tancredo is a lot darker than Sotomayor is

The ultimately irony.

:eyes:

[MadMaddie]

56. After observing the Reich Wings response to Obama's

nominee, I think more and more this was an amazing strategic move. These reich wing hacks are having their "Maccaca", moments daily now and this will ensure that they have lost the Latino and other minority votes for a very long time.

It is our job to make sure everyone knows and history reflects their racism and hatred.

[csziggy]

62. Here is the MSNBC clip from The Ed Show with Tancredo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZQIVs4I0Qw

The brown woman comment follows 0:50 mark.

[mix]

63. tancredo is the worst mf out there n/t

[Yavin4]

64. Tancredo Is Becoming A Character from A Spike Lee Movie

Do The Right Thing Tom...