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Arnold is at it again.
During a closed door meeting on March 3 (but leaked to the press this week), Schwarzenegger, when referring to state Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia speculated about the characteristics of her nationality:
"I mean Cuban, Puerto-Rican, they are all 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."
But in response to his remarks, Garcia shrugged it off, saying:
"I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am," she said. "Very often I tell him, 'Look, I am a hot-blooded Latina.' I label myself a hot-blooded Latina that is very passionate about the issues, and this is kind of an inside joke that I have with the governor."
So is everyone making a big deal out of nothing? But why bring up the ethnicity of a colleague in order to determine her personality traits, which also infers that everyone of Puerto Rican descent is hot-tempered. Whether this is construed as a positive or negative trait is, well...
Why mention it at all?
I assume that being an Assemblywoman is a stressful, high-profile position in which when speaking to the media, anything that is said will be heavily scrutinized by the public. I do not question that Garcia meant what she said, but to play the devil's advocate, let's say that privately, she was pissed.
But even is she was annoyed that her "buddy" was discussing her cultural background behind her back, could she, as a woman in a relatively high-profile position, speak her mind as a 'hot blooded Latina' and keep her public reputation and more importantly, her job? It seems that a large population of people do not like representatives of their city or state to hold views that differ from what is socially considered 'appropriate'behaviour (i.e.Cynthia McKinney), so what could Garcia do but downplay Schwarzenegger's comments?
Plus, as a CNN anchor said, where did he get his degree in Genetics?
