-By Warner Todd Huston
Aurora’s Democrat State Representative, Linda Chapa LaVia, decided to let her racist flag fly on the floor of the House earlier this week when she called a bi-racial Republican a”half” of a minority during a debate on her failed teachers union-backed attempt to harm Illinois’ charter schools.
Chapa LaVia was pleading with the minorities in the chamber telling them that only they really care about education in Illinois when she turned toward her right where Rep. John D. Anthony (R, Morris) was sitting whereupon she slammed him as only “half” a minority.
Of course, even by any measure of the left’s ideas of what a “minority” is ancestors wise Anthony fits the bill. He is part Africa and part Hispanic having a Puerto Rican background. He was a policeman and was elected as a Republican in 2013.
Ah, but there is Chapa LaVia’s racist clap trap coming into play, isn’t it? You see, merely being a Republican is enough for Chapa LaVia to claim that Anthony is only “half” a minority.
“Listen to me, minorities,” Chapa LaVia shrilly said. “I’m over here because we’re all over on this side of the aisle, right?” Then she motioned toward Rep, Anthony and said, “Wait! We have a half! We have a half!”
And you can just see the seething hatred on her face when she said “we have a ‘half,” too. Look at the hate on this creep’s face… (about 19 seconds into the video)
You can just see the hate and condescension on her face as soon as she indulged her racism.
This ignorant woman tried to apologize a little while later, but her apology was just a lie as it was one of those apologies that essentially reiterated the point while merely pretending to be an apology.
The bill that racist LaVia was trying to push through (House Bill 4237) failed 54 to 55 on the roll call vote–60 votes were needed for passage. It was little else but an attempt to help out the anti-education teachers unions and to hurt Illinois’ charter schools.
(H/T Champion News)
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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