Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009...8:36 am
Gesta Tancredi
Last week, Tomás Tancredo assigned a line from a early sixties pamphlet as the “slogan” for the National Council of La Raza. For years, Tancredo and his allies have been claiming that same line is the slogan for MEChA. This led me to wonder if Tancredo would eventually ascribe this slogan to every possible Hispanic organization, including UNAM Pumas and Los Lobos.
I was also going to make a crack that this means that Tancredo has trouble telling one Mexican from another, even when that Mexican is a Puerto Rican, but TPM did this first.
But, all that has been overtaken by the ongoing saga of Marcus Epstein. Epstein is a staffer for both Tancredo’s PAC and Pat Buchanan’s group, American Cause, and he was caught up in an ugly racist incident. The folks over at TPM have found Epstein’s photo gallery from his trip to Ethiopia, complete with racist captions. Geez.
The guy is going to be leaving his employment with Tancredo and Buchanan, but not over the assault or his history of other racist statements. Instead, it is because he is leaving for law school. As it turns out, the law school doesn’t want him after all. So, since he won’t be leaving for law school, do these groups keep him on staff?
This leads one to wonder: is he employed with Tancredo and Buchanan despite these attitudes, or because of them?
5 Comments
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:26 am
Italians are “girly men,” eh? I wonder what that make the girly man’s gofer….
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
That one was particularly galling. I mean, here is an object taken from Ethiopia after the Italian fascists invaded, and he thinks that the democratic post-war government of Italy are whimps for not keeping the spoils of that brutal invasion. Makes me wonder where the guy’s head is.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 am
Somewhere where there is little sunshine.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Why the hell did he go there in the first place???
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I bet he gets admitted to Liberty University law School, where they hail Plessy v. Ferguson as the law of the land