Arizona State Lawmaker Wants State Holiday To Celebrate White People

[Scuba]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/04/418027/arizona-gop-lawmaker-wants-a-state-holiday-to-celebrate-white-people/

Arizona’s unremitting campaign against its Hispanic communities has certainly reached an extreme, with the state GOP initiating a spate of radical anti-immigrant laws, banning Mexican-American and other ethnic studies, and ensuring that Spanish-speakers will never hold elected office. But one lawmaker is intent on turning the party’s xenophobic paranoia into a full-blown caricature.

Reacting to a Democratic colleagues apparently incendiary request to celebrate a Latino American day, State Rep. Cecil Ash (R) declared that he’d support the idea as long as there’s a holiday for white people too. “I’m supportive of this proposition. I just want them to assure me that when we do become in the minority you’ll have a day for us,” he said. Ash was “trying to lighten things up,” but when

CBS 5 asked if he was serious about a Caucasian holiday, he offered an unequivocal “yes”:

ASH: Yes, I think it was appropriate. It was appropriate for the mood that was in the House and I think that if and when the Caucasian population becomes a minority, they may want to celebrate the accomplishments and the contributions of the Caucasian population the same way.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Since when are Hispanic people not "caucasian"?

Also, Cecil Turtle has a website: http://www.cecilash.com/ - I'll pronounce it Keck-Eyelash - sounds more FOREIGN....

[tanyev]

2. I thought that's what Columbus Day was for.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. +1

True, that...

[Cleita]

7. Do these people even think that Columbus was white? He was Italian and commissioned

by a Spanish queen. I actually went to school with kids who thought Italians and Spaniards weren't white.

[tanyev]

8. He sure didn't speak-a no English!

[madmom]

4. who in this country is truly "white", if we want to be honest about it.

[Cleita]

6. Actually, you could ask the same question in Europe.

Waves of migrations even before Columbus brought other races into Europe to mingle with the natives. For instance many Eastern Europeans mingled with the Huns (hence Hungary) and bear the birthmark to prove it.

[Cleita]

5. That's going to go over like a lead brick with the Native American population,

a big part of the population who reside in Arizona. The largest Navajo reservation occupies a large part of Arizona along with Utah and New Mexico. So if they are just trying to marginalize Hispanics, they are also picking a fight with these first nation people.

[feat12515si]

9. nvm