(Stay classy, Colorado GOP vice-chair! – Promoted by Colorado Pols)
It’s widely known that Donald Trump’s angry comments about Mexican immigrants bringing drugs, crime, and rape to America are false. Recent immigrants, including undocumented ones, are actually factually less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.
But the facts did not stop Trump, and, closer to him, they didn’t stop Derrick Wilburn, the elected vice chair of the Colorado Republican Party and founder of American Conservatives of Color, from polluting his Facebook page with mean bigoted comments about Hispanics.
Earlier this month, Wilburn suggested that his Facebook friends “take a look” at Los Angeles’ “Most Wanted” list, so they can see all the Hispanics.
Wilburn: Ann Coulter and Geraldo just got into it on “The Kelly File.” Ann told Geraldo to look at the LA “Most Wanted” and say illegals don’t commit most of the crimes. Here is the LA “Most Wanted” …take a look for yourself…I had a hard time finding one name that wasn’t Hispanic.
Who cares about real crime data when you can look at the “Most Wanted” list in Los Angeles, find people who appear to be Hispanic, and then apparently agree with Ann Coulter that undocumented immigrants commit most of the crimes in America?
Wilburn’s post continues: Granted we don’t know which if any of those are illegal, but, combine this with the beautiful young woman who was walking along with her family on a pier in San Francisco yesterday when a (Hispanic) man comes up behind her and SHOOTS HER IN THE BACK! In broad daylight. She was with her family, her father desperately tried to revive & save her life but was unsuccessful.
http://abc7news.com/…/sfpd-make-arrest-in-pier-14-f…/824358/No matter where you are on the Obama supporter/Obama detractor spectrum – why do we want this? How does this president’s determination to reward any & everyone illegally in our nation with full citizenship status (not to mention access to welfare, IRS tax ‘refunds’ [even tho they’ve paid no income taxes], cell phones, housing credits, medical care, etc., etc.) benefit the American citizens? And if it doesn’t, then why does our chief elected *representative* want to do it so badly?
To Wilburn’s credit, he’ll usually discuss his outrageous Facebook posts with me, but this time family obligations understandably prevented him from talking to me. So we have to let his Facebook post speak for itself in this case.
And what it says is, “I’m mad, and I’m going to act like a bigot. And I don’t really care.” If you can find some other way of interpreting Wilburn’s post, please let me know.
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I'm mad too Eddie!
These racist rants by the leaders of the Grand Old Party will do for the Democratic Party base (and a lot of swing voters) in 2016 what the misogynist comments about "legitimate rape" did in 2012.
We're gonna look back at Mitt Romney's suggestion about "self deportation" as being enlightened compared to where the GOP is heading now…..
With roots in the Deep South, I know it when I see it: when did the GOP become the Poor White Trash Party?
It's worse than that, Cook- It's rich, mostly white entitled yuppies pretending that they care about poor and middle class folks generally.
It's like the Duck Dynasty kids – au naturel:
Someone else told me this a long time ago about the Robertson family……before they discovered that there was $$$ to be made foregoing bathing, dressing up like Z-Z Top and pushing duck whistles, they were a bunch of surfing yuppies in California. California of all places!
America…….the land of opportunity!
..and the creator of Duck Dynasty, Scott Gurney, was once a gay porn star. You just couldn't make this stuff up.
Thanks, Michael. Indeed you couldn't make it up. Reminds me of that male prostitute who was on the GOP payroll planted as a journalist in the White House press pool to put softball questions to G.W. Bush!
What was his name again? He went under the handle HotMilitaryStudM4M.
Jeff Gannon (James Guckert)
That's right…..thanks for the memories!
Thanks for the picture of Danny Trejo. That dude is way too cool. I love his movies.
Derrick has a picture of Moe Howard on the home page of his Facebook page. How fitting. Wonder who the other two Stooges might be? Maybe Dougie Bruce as one?
Jason, your story is wrong. Derrick didn't say these things, he was just quoting somebody else. Time for a correction.
Jason's story is right. Please try reading.
Didn't say he said or wrote it. Said he chose to pollute his page with it. He did. It's not as if he presented as something untrue and easily disproved. More proof you've got nothing. And you have serious reading comprehension and reasoning skills problems.
He removed the sentence that said it was quoted material, and never mentions that in his post. It's very deceptive.
Give it a rest, Moddy. When you post crap online, without criticism, you take ownership. All you're doing is showing that you're a shameless apologist for bigotry.
It's not deceptive at all to someone with basic reading comprehension skills. So you think he posted this as an example of something wrong and stupid with which he doesn't agree at all? Seriously?
I took a look at the Weld County, Denver,
and Pikes Peak area, Most Wanted lists.
<a href="http://www.crimestop.net/wanted-fugitives.html
Some scary dudes, (and a few women) for sure. There sure are a lot of sexual assaults on children!
Without investigating further, there may be some victimless crimes in there, too. I understand that a person can be labeled as a sex offender for taking a leak in public. There are a few drug offenses, too. At any rate, I don't see anything that would lead me to say immediately that crime is up and the community is less safe because immigration laws are not enforced. I suspect that it's a whole lot more complex than that.
The pattern I saw was about half of the fugitives were clearly white with Anglo last names; the rest divided between Spanish-surnamed people and African-American. The Pikes Peak area (Wilburn's own stomping grounds) was mostly white guys.
So Wilburn may want to check his assumptions in his own home area.
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