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President Donald Trump is famously difficult to write speeches for, and his relationship with Mexican-Americans has been strained by comments made, so any speechwriter crafting an address for Cinco de Mayo would have a challenge. Having worn this hat at the State Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission during the George W. Bush administration, this is the advice I’d give him:
. . . "So be the disrupter you have been so far and reject the worn-out models that have failed. Don’t try “outreach” to Hispanics, Latinos, and even less Latinx (whatever on God’s green earth that is). To Cuban-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Argentines, and so forth, Cinco is as alien as Bastille Day (you see, Mr. President, the federal bureaucracy created the “Hispanic” panethnicity). If they celebrate it they’ll do so as Americans, not because it is their holiday." . . .More here.
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator, and editor who has reported from Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He served in the George W. Bush administration, first at the Securities and Exchange Commission and then at the State Department, and is the author of"A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans." Read his research.
"Their only interest is in making you into victims; I want to make you victors."
President Donald Trump is famously difficult to write speeches for, and his relationship with Mexican-Americans has been strained by comments made, so any speechwriter crafting an address for Cinco de Mayo would have a challenge. Having worn this hat at the State Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission during the George W. Bush administration, this is the advice I’d give him:
. . . "So be the disrupter you have been so far and reject the worn-out models that have failed. Don’t try “outreach” to Hispanics, Latinos, and even less Latinx (whatever on God’s green earth that is). To Cuban-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Argentines, and so forth, Cinco is as alien as Bastille Day (you see, Mr. President, the federal bureaucracy created the “Hispanic” panethnicity). If they celebrate it they’ll do so as Americans, not because it is their holiday." . . .More here.
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator, and editor who has reported from Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He served in the George W. Bush administration, first at the Securities and Exchange Commission and then at the State Department, and is the author of"A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans." Read his research.
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