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Posted 05/28/09 at 05:45pm

Anti-Immigrant Tancredo Takes on Sotomayor, Calls NCLR the Latino KKK Without the Hoods

The anti-immigrant crowd just can't seem to stop attacking the President's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, on the topic of race. In, "Media Matters' Boehlert goes head-to-head with Tancredo over Sotomayor on CNN," Media Matters exposes the out-of-touch sentiments and statements of the anti-immigrant movement's biggest national hero, Tom Tancredo. Tancredo calls the President's nominee a "racist" and the largest latino civil rights organization in the United States, NCLR, a quote-unquote:

...Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.

Just like the NAACP is the hoodless Black KKK, right Tancredo? Clearly these guys are just militant, racist, murderers, minus the sheets.

Watch it:

As Boehlert points out, it is unclear to begin with why the former Republican Presidential Candidate and Congressman felt compelled to damn a comment by Sotomayor, made eight years ago, in which she says that her life experience has made her a better judge. It is peculiar, as blogger Jed Lewison points out, that another Supreme Court Justice, Judge Alito, made a very similar, if not more direct, case without so much as a peep from Tancredo, Krikorian, or any of the other heads of the Anti-Immigrant Lobby: As Lewison notes:

Alito said that his family's experience as immigrants influenced his outlook on immigration cases.

It's clear that immigration hardliners just can't seem to stop attacking Judge Sotomayor, the President's nominee for the highest court in the United States, on race.

What's not clear is how this helps their cause one bit.

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UPDATE: Tancredo's KKK attack on NCLR is all over The Politico, Think Progress, Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, the Colorado Independent, and more.

On Crooks and Liars' Third Branch, Dave Meyer argues:

Mel Martinez should join Senator McCain in denouncing Tancredo. Less than three months ago, Martinez prominently accepted a Capital Award from NCLR in recognition of his "outstanding support of public policies that are vital to Hispanic Americans."

Somebody has to take a stand, speak the truth about an organization whose mission is to "improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans," and repair the GOP brand with Latinos, that's for sure. Michael Steele, maybe?

Comments

If you really believe that La Raza is worthy I hope you Hispanics clean the corruption out of it. I an Anglo could go to Mexico city and be a social pain in the rear to your society by cheating you of what you work to earn, by spreading litter and graffiti everywhere, by forming gangs, by teaching racist preferences, and by claiming to be moral all the while being ignorant and blind to what I was doing.

In case you have never seen the supreme court icon (the statue of the scale with a blindfold), it was made to show that justice is impartial and objective.

i wonder how couldnt i find the video on youtube . . .

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  • 12-08-09 By coolpete

The problem is your society envies and covets and then yells “racist” to anyone who exposes your society’s evil behaviors and attitudes in an effort to protect the common good for all races.

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An anti-immigrant group is now making it official: It’s pulling its support for Dobbs and his presidential run, in the wake of Dobbs’ recent claim that he in fact supports a path to legalization for undocumented workers, saying that Dobbs “deeply offended his base.”

Previously, Dobbs had spent years blasting “amnesty” for illegals and trafficking in other anti-immigrant sentiment, prompting the long-running campaign to oust him from CNN. In a recent interview with Telemundo, however, he surprised a lot of observers by declaring he’d always been supportive of a route to legalization.

The National Council of La Raza doesn’t think much of former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo’s attack on the 40-year-old civil rights organization as “a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.

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The National Council of La Raza doesn’t think much of former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo’s attack on the 40-year-old civil rights organization as “a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.
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  • 12-12-09 By tress

It’s clear that immigration hardliners just can’t seem to stop attacking Judge Sotomayor, the President’s nominee for the highest court in the United States, on race.
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