More racism from the GOP

[KingFlorez]

They never stop with their hatred

Schwarzenegger apologizes for taped remarks about ethnicity
- By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer
Friday, September 8, 2006



(09-08) 17:18 PDT Santa Monica, Calif. (AP) --


Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for remarks taped in a closed-door meeting in which he said the mixture of Hispanic and black heredity produces "very hot" personalities.


"Anyone out there that feels offended by those comments, I just want to say I'm sorry, I apologize," the Republican governor told reporters outside a seaside hotel in Santa Monica.


Disclosure of the remarks in a Los Angeles Times story Friday came in the midst of Schwarzenegger's tight re-election race and set off a day of fingerpointing from opponents and words of support for the governor by lawmakers of both parties.


On the tape, Schwarzenegger and chief of staff Susan Kennedy speak affectionately about a Republican Hispanic assemblywoman and speculate about her nationality.


Whether Cuban or Puerto Rican, "they all are very hot," the governor says on the recording. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it."


URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/09/08/state/n161410D93.DTL

[Catherine Vincent]

1. WTF?!

I had been reading about some apology Arnold was making but this is the first I've read of what he actually said. Saying someone is hot, we've all heard that before but where did he come up with that hispanic/black mixing part? Geeze!

[KingFlorez]

2. It's really ignorant

It's really terrible that the governor of the one of the largest states would says something so racist.

[bainz]

4. fiery perhaps?

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fiery

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. Ahnold off scot-free again

Another loveable dunderhead from California who appears to be on his way to the White House while America just laughs about it.

[beyurslf]

5. I hate it when they call that an apology. He didn't say he was sorry he

said it. He said he was sorry if it offended someone.

[bumblebee1]

6. It's too bad that Arnold doesn't understand something.

When you're a public figure, you must watch what you say and do. It's a lesson Arnold has yet to learn in spite of being in the public eye for over twenty years.