Frank Sharry cheers race-based power; white-majority districts are "bleached districts"

Posted Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Frank Sharry of America's Voice offers "Latinos Poised to Shake Up 2010 Census, Politicians Beware" at the Huffington Post [1] in which he discusses a study showing how massive immigration by Latinos will affect congressional apportionment; more on that here. The piece is basically just a celebration of race-based "raw political power", and later on he quotes from a Washington Post blog post written by Ed OKeefe in which Sharry - someone who's apparently Irish-Italian [2] - says the following:

"This is going to set up a very interesting dynamic, because right now, the kind of bleached districts where candidates can get away with demonizing Latino immigrants -- because they're more worried about a primary challenge than a general election loss -- may end in the next decade."

[1] huffingtonpost.com/frank-sharry/
latinos-poised-to-shake-u_b_362652.html

[2] northamericaninstitute.org/files/symposia/sharrybio.pdf

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Comments

eh (not verified)

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 19:37

Interesting that Sharry's bio (which is childishly written, and contains at least one typo) appears on the site of something called 'The North American Institute', because he's apparently working to ensure that there are lots of people from Central and South America in North America. Just looking at the general state of development in Central and South America, it's not clear how that will benefit North America. That doesn't seem to trouble him though.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Sat, 11/21/2009 - 22:27

eh if you are balck you will get in the back of the bus or be shot by some hispanic cop. it is all about race, white are the only people on earth that will stand up and die for others by the millions; black and brown and yellows understand one thing the race means all and all others are only good people when that other race is dead,dead,dead. That is real racism the only way to stop mass murder here is to become just like the other people of the world, that way you can stop evil from happening by using your own racism against others who want you dead,dead,dead. If you want to understand god become a real racists and you will become a human being once more and not a victim of evil doers and you will put the fear of god into the monkeys.