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Clearly no one read the article linked in the OP! It contains such damning evidence as:
Garcia-Quintana's non-profit once got a donation from Ted Tancredo. And Tancredo went to an event that was catered by a guy who belongs to League of the South. And the SPLC has declared that LOS is a hate group.
You can't make this stuff up!
Nikki Haley has 164 people on this steering committee and this was the biggest dirt the SPLC could find? She must be squeaky clean.
SPLC however has blood on its hands. A crazy liberal said he used the SPLC's hate group list to pick the Family Research Council, and he went there with a gun intending to shoot everyone he could and shove Chic Fil A sandwiches in their dead mouths. Luckily a good security guard stopped a massacre, but he got shot in the process.
That's directly on that SPLC, no 6 degrees of separation needed to connect the SPLC and the shooting.
Are you really this naive???...or do you think everyonelse is just stupid???
I know in your extremely limited American worldview that anyone with Spanish last names can't possibly be white, ever, but fact of the matter is people with Spanish last names can be just as white as anyone from Sweden or Britain. Shocking revelation, I know. There is a world beyond that little shack you live in the farm in the Midwest or cabin in Appalachia
You aren't considered fully "white" unless you can prove your family arrived in America on the "Mayflower" as a passenger and not on some other ship as freight.
He never identified himself as Hispanic. He identified as White. His last name might have been Spanish, but in those days, there was no term for Hispanic. And Hispanic is an ethnicity. Racially, he was considered White. I've got a clip on this thread of him expressing White supremacist views. Having a Spanish last name does not mean anything. Racial makeup is a determining factor.
I don't care anything about South Carolina politics, but the name Quintana caught my eye. I just did the genealogy of a relative who married a Quintana in NM. I looked up the Roan Garcia-Quintana from the article. He was born 1950 in Cuba. Looks like someone who wanted to smear Haley twisted the facts.
He never identified himself as Hispanic. He identified as White. His last name might have been Spanish, but in those days, there was no term for Hispanic. And Hispanic is an ethnicity. Racially, he was considered White. I've got a clip on this thread of him expressing White supremacist views. Having a Spanish last name does not mean anything. Racial makeup is a determining factor.
Both race and ethnicty describes who we are. There is a difference between a Hispanic-white and a non-hispanic white. He was born in Cuba and his father or his ancestors probably hailed from Spain. Therefore he is a Hispanic-white. Normally the term "white supremist" is reserved for non-hispanic whites. Not saying he isn't a supremist because I don't know but I wouldn't call him a "white" supremist because that is too vague without taking into account his ethnicity also.
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