The House Republicans, led by Steven King (R-Paint Huffing) to denounce their Number One Enemy, babies, or at least, the wrong colored ones anyway. Now, a baby doesn't have much except the love of a mother and father, and some don't even have that. But every baby born in this country has something of great value, and that is citizenship in the United States of America.
Now, this bothers some people, because derp. One of these people is alleged legal scholar Lino A. Graglia, who climbed aboard the wingnut clown car a long time ago, and was brought out as an "expert" witness today by the Republicans.
Too bad they didn't do their home work on Professor Graglia. Because the Democrats did, and oh so deliciously. All they had to do was go to Wikipedia -- see below the squiggle of Liberal Fascism for what they found.
And oh, was the Wiki rife with information about the learned gentleman (edited for levity):
Graglia became controversial when he made a speech on UT campus in 1997 in which he noted that "blacks and Mexican-Americans can't compete academically with whites." ...
In an article titled ''The Affirmative Action Fraud'', published in 1999 ... to assert the following: "Blacks are not in fact 'underrepresented,' but rather 'overrepresented' that is, their numbers are disproportionately in institutions of higher education once IQ scores are taken into account."
In 2012, he suggested that blacks and Hispanics are falling behind in education because they are increasingly raised in single-parent families.
Here's what Dana Milbank
had to say about the esteemed professor:
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif) mentioned Graglia’s “pickaninny” comment and his position on busing. After Lofgren’s time expired, Graglia blurted out: “Your bringing up . . . this alleged statement of ‘pickaninny’ is in the nature of slur. I don’t know why you’re bringing up these insulting things that have nothing to do with” his testimony.
Minutes later, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) read aloud some of Graglia’s other comments about minorities. “It seems some underhanded move is being made here,” the professor protested, saying he “never made a comment that in any way implied the inferiority of any group.”
The congressman asked that Graglia’s past statements be entered into the record. But Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) complained that the line of inquiry was “a non-germane subject for this hearing.”
On the contrary, it gets right at the heart of the matter.
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