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Related: About this forumHouse Republicans try to gut a key American principle
House Republicans try to gut a key American principleBy Dana Milbank Opinion writer April 29 at 6:11 PM
The Civil War eras 14th Amendment, granting automatic citizenship to any baby born on American soil, is a proud achievement of the Party of Lincoln. ... But now House Republicans are talking about abolishing birthright citizenship. ... A House Judiciary subcommittee took up the question Wednesday afternoon, prompted by legislation sponsored by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and 22 other lawmakers that, after nearly 150 years, would end automatic citizenship.
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Judiciary Committee Republicans brought in three experts to testify in support of this extraordinary maneuver (a lone Democratic witness was opposed), and they evidently had to search far and wide for people who would take this view, because they ended up with a bizarre witness: an octogenarian professor from the University of Texas named Lino Graglia.
This would be the Lino Graglia who caused a furor in 1997 when he said that Latinos and African Americans are not academically competitive with whites and come from a culture that seems not to encourage achievement. He also said at the time that I dont know that its good for whites to be with the lower classes.
This is also the same Lino Graglia who said in a 2012 interview that black and Hispanic children are less academically competent than white children, and he attributed the academic gap to the deleterious experience of being reared by single mothers. When the interviewer, a black man, said he had a single mother, Graglia said that my guess would be that youre above usual smartness for whites, to say nothing of blacks. ... And this is the very same Lino Graglia whose nomination for a federal judgeship in the 1980s fell apart amid allegations that he had urged Austin residents to defy a court-ordered busing plan and had used the racist word pickaninny in the classroom.
The Civil War eras 14th Amendment, granting automatic citizenship to any baby born on American soil, is a proud achievement of the Party of Lincoln. ... But now House Republicans are talking about abolishing birthright citizenship. ... A House Judiciary subcommittee took up the question Wednesday afternoon, prompted by legislation sponsored by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and 22 other lawmakers that, after nearly 150 years, would end automatic citizenship.
....
Judiciary Committee Republicans brought in three experts to testify in support of this extraordinary maneuver (a lone Democratic witness was opposed), and they evidently had to search far and wide for people who would take this view, because they ended up with a bizarre witness: an octogenarian professor from the University of Texas named Lino Graglia.
This would be the Lino Graglia who caused a furor in 1997 when he said that Latinos and African Americans are not academically competitive with whites and come from a culture that seems not to encourage achievement. He also said at the time that I dont know that its good for whites to be with the lower classes.
This is also the same Lino Graglia who said in a 2012 interview that black and Hispanic children are less academically competent than white children, and he attributed the academic gap to the deleterious experience of being reared by single mothers. When the interviewer, a black man, said he had a single mother, Graglia said that my guess would be that youre above usual smartness for whites, to say nothing of blacks. ... And this is the very same Lino Graglia whose nomination for a federal judgeship in the 1980s fell apart amid allegations that he had urged Austin residents to defy a court-ordered busing plan and had used the racist word pickaninny in the classroom.
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House Republicans try to gut a key American principle (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2015
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(20,886 posts)1. Talk about bottom of the barrel.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)2. If Steve King sponsors a piece of legislation
you know for a fact that it's going to be batshit insane from the start.
He and Lina Graglia are two peas in the same pod.