Bobby Jindal releases his birth certificate

In my experience, which is not unlimited, this is categorically false.

 

Either way, they're not the same.

The Indian sub-continent is a big place with over a billion people.

The "joke" that Abbott made was the equivalent of making a joke about a German using a stereotype about French people.

But, since they're brown and from the same sub-continent, he didn't distinguish between the two.

 

They are indeed citizens by virtue of the 14th Amendment, and there is a hell of a fight about it right now as the Tea Party and its friends make noise about trying to repeal that amendment. Cute story: The whole reason it's in the Constitution is to guarantee that black people post-slavery were considered U.S. citizens.

 

Heyabbott is constantly accused of making a racist joke. But did he ever really do it?
It was mostly a strawman set up by YankeeFan to be knocked down and to deflect other criticisms.

 

I know one segment that my Gujaratis don't care for, but I'm not gonna light that bottle rocket on this thread.

 

LJB, are you going the Junkie route on your post total?

 

And the teabaggers want to repeal it. Imagine my surprise.

 

He could take a year off, and I'd still never catch him

 

I prefer to be nothing more than a lawn ornament around here, to the untrained eye. An insignificant stormtrooper.

A four-digit post count makes that difficult.

 

OK, so black jokes about Obama are not OK, but we're allowed to say anything we want about someone of Indian descent?

Or is it only OK, because he's a republican?

 

It reminds me of the "joke" that Bill Clinton told Teddy Kennedy about Barack Obama. You know, the one where a few years ago, "he'd be serving us drinks".

But it's fine to diminish an Indian American's accomplishments, if he's a conservative Republican. Is he the Governor of Louisiana? No, he runs a Dunkin' Donuts in Metairie. Hysterical.

And, secretariat, how would you classify what he said?

It played on stereotypes related to the color of his skin and the sub-continent his parents are from.

And, it was so ignorant, it didn't even relate to the right group of people from India. But hey, it doesn't matter. Punjabis and Gujaratis are both brown, so the joke still works. Ha ha ha. So fucking funny.