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On Tuesday evening, the two Democrats who are running for mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, faced each other in a debate, during which one of the moderators, Telemundo’s Dunia Elvir, called Caruso one of the worst names a Democrat candidate for anything can be called today. Corrupt? A Putin puppet? A closet Trump supporter? Worse. “The next mayor of Los Angeles,” Elvir said, “will be either an African-American woman or a white man.” Caruso, who is as white as Al Pacino or Robert De Niro, immediately objected, and it’s easy to see why: in the eyes of the Leftist intelligentsia today, there is no worse thing in this world to be than a white man.
Desperate to avoid the stigma of being a white man, Caruso immediately declared: “I’m Italian,” whereupon Elvir said, “An Italian American,” to which Caruso responded: “Thank you, that’s Latin, thank you.”
Yeah, no. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “Hispanics or Latino refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.” Although Italians have just as much of a claim as Spanish speakers to be the children and heirs of Latin-speaking people and the Latin culture of the Roman Empire, no one ever uses the term “Latin” (or “Latino,” “Latina,” and everybody’s favorite, “Latinx”) to refer to people of the same nationality as Michelangelo, Don Vito Corleone, and Enrico Caruso, to say nothing of Rick Caruso.
At least Caruso objected only to the “white” part. He didn’t also insist that he wasn’t a man and demand that Elvir refer to him by some made-up, unpronounceable faux-pronouns. In today’s climate, it could have happened so very easily. After all, Caruso has switched teams before, having been a Republican for years before he decided that he wanted to be mayor of Los Angeles, which at this point is an authoritarian one-party city. Now that he is a trans-Democrat and trans-white, it wouldn’t be a big leap for Caruso if he needs to identify as “non-binary” to have any chance of getting elected in the Land of Fruits and Nuts.
The emphatically non-white Caruso stated: “I connect with the Latino community but quite frankly my job as mayor is to connect with every community — the Latino community, the Black community, the Asian community, right? The Jewish community. If one group rises, we all rise. We do this together in unison and we don’t separate, we don’t divide. But we all say to ourselves we can do this and we can have a better city.”
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somehistory says
Every “community” except the White people; perhaps including any of Italian descent who identify as White.
Separate and divide, then pretend it’s all one big happy. The “black sheep” of the world are all the White people.
Walter Sieruk says
The reason that “White Democrat LA Mayoral Candidate Bristles After Being Called White” is because he was attempting to show off to all the liberal voters how politically correct he is.
That Democrats politician isa real time server.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m w/ Rick Caruso here, despite his change in party affiliation. It’s the same thing w/ Asian, where only the ‘yellow’ people are considered Asian, while for some inexplicable reason, Japanese and Indians are left out. Or were: most forms I see nowadays just have ‘Asian’ for ethnicity, despite how disparate are the Han Chinese from the Japanese from the Indo-Aryans and so on. It is exactly like using ‘White’ to describe Germanic, Frank, Celtic and Slavic peoples all in one
࿗Infidel࿘ says
On a different note, does LA have a Republican running in this mayor’s race? Or is it again one of those ‘open primary’ funneled races?
Keith O says
It’s sad to think that the most vilified type of person in the former United States is now a white, heterosexual, wage earning, tax paying male.
I have often wondered how many of the woke dumbocraps have chugged some of their own cool aid and actually believe the BS they are now spruking and how many know it’s all demented BS and are tagging along to get votes and stay in “power”?
Scotsman48 says
So its African American, Latino America, Asian American but I have yet to hear any of these talking heads say European American.
I asked an SJW ”female” snowflake recently just who does she think built America, which Race was mostly responsible and which Gender were those people..
She called me a Trump supporter and walked away…Like that was an insult…
Ya cant fix that kind of stupid.
James Lincoln says
Rick Caruso could’ve said:
Monday through Wednesday, I identify as a Black transgender female.
Thursday and Friday, I identify as a non-binary Hispanic.
And on weekends, I am “everything” Asian.
somehistory says
He could have also said, “Yes, I’m White and not ashamed of it.” There are still more White people around. And, who wants to get a job by lying? some people maybe, but the honest person who actually wants to help others, does not.
James Lincoln says
+1