During an interview with Jorge Ramos, the anchor of Univision’s nightly newscast, Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez made an offensive remark that many people are now very angry about.
In Spanish, she claimed that “the Vietnamese” and Republicans were trying to take her seat in Congress, a seat that she says belongs to the Hispanic community, and therefore to her.
The district is 70 percent Hispanic and 9.5 percent Vietnamese.
Her opponent, Republican Assemblyman Van Tran, asked for an apology last Thursday.
Tran, who immigrated from Vietnam at the age of 10, says the 47th congressional district belongs to the people, not an individual ethnicity.
Many people believe that Sanchez said these things under the assumption that only the Hispanic community would hear them since they were being broadcast on a Spanish-speaking network.
Others believe that Sanchez is simply showing her true racial traits.
Whichever you believe, it is certain that Sanchez has lost a great deal of supporters.
-By Dani Jean Keinz
