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JoethePleb

(204 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2013, 11:22 AM Apr 2013

Republicans Miss Opportunity With Hispanics Over Google-Chavez Spat

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13297/republicans-miss-opportunity-with-hispanics-over-googlechavez-spat

Republicans continuing to search for reasons Hispanics reject them at the polls will apparently be doing it on Bing and not Google. Republicans actively oppose a path to citizenship in Immigration Reform, and the expansion of Medicaid, but they also manage to add some insult to that injury. You may have notice on Twitter, Facebook, or perhaps Google itself that the "Google Doodle" on Sunday celebrated Cesar Chavez's birthday and not the Christian holiday Easter. Now some conservative Christians including Michelle Malkin are feeling snubbed by what Rod Dreher of The American Conservative referred to as, "a relatively obscure cultural figure". Sure, relatively obscure if you do not realize that Cesar Chavez was one of America's premiere Civil Rights leaders, or if you agree with some on the Texas SBOE that our History should be whitewashed regarding Latino's influence and struggle in Texas, but certainly not to anyone truly interested in the political advancement of Hispanic people or their issues...
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