Editors Note-Arnold is so misinformed culturally and historically.
LOS ANGELES - Caramba! Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized yesterday for saying that Latinos have “hot” tempers due to a combination of “black blood” mixed with “Latino blood.”
The red-faced governator’s racially charged remarks were taped during a meeting with his top aides last year and published in the Los Angeles Times yesterday.
Schwarzenegger set forth his bizarre racial theory while discussing the temperament of Republican state Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, who was born on the lower East Side to Puerto Rican parents.
“She maybe is Puerto Rican or the same thing as Cuban. I mean they are all very hot. They have, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that, together, makes it,” he said.
Schwarzenegger yesterday called Latino and African-American legislative leaders to apologize and offered a public mea culpa - with Garcia by his side - at an event in Santa Monica.
“I just want to say I am sorry,” he said. “If I would hear this kind of comments in my house by my kids, I would be upset. Today when I read it in the papers, it made me cringe.”
Garcia let him off the hook. “Governor, there is no need to apologize.”
She said she has a running inside joke with Schwarzenegger about her “hot-blooded Latina” personality.
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Schwarzenegger apologizes for racist remark
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