Patrick Kennedy, the last remaining link to those heady days of Camelot, spoke out against Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law. And he did the Kennedy family proud.
“…it violates the spirit of our own Constitution. So, you know, we had a tragic history in this country. The most shameful parts of our history were when we had our slave trade, when we, when we, the Trail of Tears, what we did to our Native Americans. And, you know, the proudest moments in our history are when we had the Civil Rights Act, when we moved forward on integration and expanding the opportunities for all of our citizens.
“So, this idea of, you know, racial profiling, takes us backwards and really goes to the worst character of our nation and it’s, it’s demeaning to our country that we would move in that direction. It’s beneath us as a people.”
Please allow us to translate:
“I love Mexicans. Legal Mexicans. Illegal Mexicans. Tall Mexicans. Short Mexicans. To prove it, I’d like a tequila, bartender. And hold the glass. Just gimme the friggin’ bottle and shut the hell up.”
