Geraldo Rivera Explains Why America Should Knuckle Under to Hispanics

Whites to Lose Majority by 2050

Winning elections, multiculturalism and (impossible) equality.

“On Tuesday February 26th, my book about immigration and the Latino American experience is being published. Called “His Panic, Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.,” it is one of my proudest achievements because it exposes how the hysterical anti-immigration propaganda campaign that has infected our nation’s political dialogue is based on lies and distortion, false statistics and race-baiting.

The book predicts an election year uprising among Hispanics finally sickened enough to make a stand against candidates and news organizations that have spent the last several years trying to get the country to turn her back on our noble immigrant tradition. One of the first to fall was Mitt Romney.”

“The extremist tone of the rhetoric was like a putrid fog settling over the entire U.S. Latino community, which has recently become the nation’s largest minority, 45 million strong, up from just four million in 1950 according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. “A lot of Latinos like me who are citizens or here legally are really beginning to feel insulted and being made the scapegoat for everything from crime to terrorism,” I explained to Governor Romney that day in the green room.*

“I have 45 Hispanics on my advisory committee in Florida,” Romney explained quickly and sincerely, “so I’m very sensitive about only targeting the illegal immigrants.” I told him it might not matter, that we all sort of look alike, wished him luck and left.”

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*EDITOR’S NOTE: We have to wonder how Mr. Rivera would react if millions of European Americans were flooding into Mexico and demanding their ‘rights,’ free education, EITC, free medical services, driving drunk, creating anchor babies, filling the prison system, etc.

2008-02-25