OMFG!... NM GOP official quits over remarks about blacks

What f*#@ing century is this?

NM GOP official quits over remarks about blacks

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The chairman of the Republican Party in New Mexico's most populous county resigned Thursday, nearly a week after saying "Hispanics consider themselves above blacks" and won't vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Fernando C de Baca's resignation as GOP chairman in Bernalillo County was announced by state GOP Chairman Allen Weh, one of several top New Mexico Republicans who had called for him to step down.

"Mr. C de Baca has worked hard on behalf of the party, and his contributions should be appropriately recognized," Weh said. "We are glad this matter has been resolved and wish him well."

C de Baca, 70, was quoted in a BBC News blog last week as saying: "The truth is that Hispanics came here as conquerors. African-Americans came here as slaves. Hispanics consider themselves above blacks. They won't vote for a black president."

C de Baca had maintained his comments were taken out of context, explaining he was referring to views held by some in the generation of Hispanics who grew up before the civil rights movement. "Those were not my beliefs," he said Tuesday.

A spokesman for the BBC defended the report as accurate. Pressure on C de Baca to resign grew with the release of audio from a second BBC interview.

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"The truth is that Hispanics came here as conquerors. African-Americans came here as slaves. Hispanics consider themselves above blacks. They won't vote for a black president." which I beg to differ.

way out of what he said, but they kept the pressure on him an I guess he finally decided that he better step down.

Most of them have been in Texas for as many generations as my family has been there (and that is since 1630).

This doesn't surprise me in the least.

You mean this MFer tried to claim that his quote was taken out of context even though an audio of his comments were released to the public?

And it took a whole week to pressure this ba$tard to resign? the nerve of some repukes!

Many of us call ourselves Latino, not Hispanics. We often lament our misguided brethren in New Mexico who desperately try to associate themselves with Spain rather than face the fact that in the US we are not considered any higher than Blacks or Native Americans. We're all potentially "illegals" if we look brown and have a Latino surname, no matter where we were born, how educated we are, or how much we have tried to assimilate. For us as an ethnic group to look down on any other minority group is sheer stupidity.

some desperately want to be closer to the top group, whites.

So you have light skinned blacks being held above dark skin, same for hispanics, asians, heck even people from India.

That is how they compartmentalize their racism, because after all THEY are much closer to whites than the ones they disdain.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/23/hispanics-blacks-obama/

They're idiots!

Maybe it's the sun.

if the Comment came from a white European about a Hispanic candidate.

Rethuglicans, Whining, Racist, Knuckle Dragging Buffoons, all of them.

Conservativism is a Social Disease.