I just heard this on The Colbert Report and had to look it up for myself. Last week, John Gibson on Fox News said this:
"...half the kids under 5 years old in this country are minorities. By far, the greatest number are Hispanic. Know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority population is Hispanic ... To put it bluntly: We need more babies."
It's hard to look at this as anything other than not-too-subtle racism. Is this what people are really worried about when they talk about the illegal immigration and securing the borders?
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Comments (3)
Exactly -- this is thinly-veiled racism and xenophobia. But what do you come to expect from Fox News?
Posted by alec | May 22, 2006 12:30 PM
But is this isolated to John Gibson and others on the far right, or is it indicitive of the entire "immigration reform" movement? I'm not sure I know.
Posted by Elyas Bakhtiari | May 22, 2006 1:28 PM
I'm fairly leftist and I think immigrants, including the one's illegally in our country, have provided great service to this country.
Posted by לשחק שש בש | July 19, 2006 7:15 AM