Jason Richwine wrote a doctoral dissertation at Harvard University, accepted despite its racist, bigoted assertions about Hispanics and Latinos, and somehow, received a Ph. D. from the number one university in the nation!
Harvard should be ashamed of itself, for granting the doctorate for such a piece of garbage, and the professors on that committee have lost all credibility, no matter what else they are known for and have published, and this coming from an individual, myself, who had to please a distinguished committee of three professors, before gaining the honored degree 38 years ago, and then, publishing a revised edition with Johns Hopkins University Press six years later!
The Heritage Foundation is a despicable right wing organization, and just looking at who its leader is, former Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, already is telling, as he is one of the absolute worst Senators in the history of that legislative body, and is the heir, in many ways, to John C. Calhoun and Strom Thurmond!
So now it is Hispanics and Latinos who are “inferior” and have “low IQs”, instead of past groups said to be so, including Native Americans, African Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Polish Americans, Jewish Americans, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans and every other group one can imagine!
The fact that it is poverty and deprivation and discrimination, that make it difficult to succeed in the short run are now being used to make broad judgments on an ethnic group, ironically the fastest growing group in American society!
Jason Richwine is a disgrace, and should have his doctoral degree revoked, and it is good to see that he resigned from the Heritage Foundation, but he will probably go to some other right wing organization, or end up on talk radio, and be defended by the likes of Michelle Malkin, a Japanese American, who became originally noticed for her defense of the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II!
The right wing knows no limits, and no insult is enough, beginning with our first African American President, and fighting against the tide of the American future, by attacking Hispanics and Latinos, who are smart enough to realize that the conservative movement and the Republican “Neanderthals” have no concern about their status and future!
So let the right wing continue to advocate its poison, and the response of Hispanics and Latinos will be overwhelmingly what it was in 2012, 70 percent and more for the Democrats and the progressive future, which wishes to advance the “American Dream”, rather than deny it to new generations by racist hatred!
Hello Professor,
Here is a little bit about the Ol’ Engineer. I want to start off by saying for those who are too young to remember, basically if you Google Tony Orlando; I could be this celibate’s look alike. It is a shame that he does not have a more lucrative carrier so I could cash in on this part time.
In 1975 and part of 1976, I was in the U.S. Navy with a MIUW (Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare) unit. I was sent to South America starting out at Panama, later went onto Chile which was under the control of Augusto Pinochet. I saw first hand what the reactionary, extreme, and ultra conservatism aspect will eventually morph into against their own population’s citizens.
After a few months in Chile doing what we were to do, we were then sent to Argentina. I was there at the same time the military junta took over total control of that country and that was when the real abuse of the population began. The first act after the reactionary, extreme, and ultra conservatism aspect got TOTAL CONTROL, they suspended the constitution, banned all politely parties, (essentially except for their own) dissolved the other aspects such as their Congress. Now the most important lesson learned was the imposed strict censorship that was backed up and enforced by what I would compare to the Bush / Cheney’s “Patriot Act.†Phone tapping without warrants.
This was soon enabling the Junta to embark on a campaign of terror against all citizen elements in the country. Thousands of opposition supporters were persecuted, illegally imprisoned, tortured and executed without trial.
As we are all a sum of our own life’s experiences and some may say this is a very Freudian outlook I have towards the now popular Conservative Movement in this country, but I have seen first hand where this type of movement can rapidly move to.
I look forward to all comments on this topic.
Engineer of Knowledge, you have made clear the tremendous threat that the right wing presents to the future of our democratic system of government, and again, I respect and honor you and your contributions on this blog! 🙂
And by the way, Engineer of Knowledge, if you resemble Tony Orlando, you are one handsome devil! 🙂 LOL
LOL…:-). yes and I just wish he was better looking today.