As American As A Taco: TNGOP Praises Cinco De Mayo

By Kleinheider Posted on May 5, 2008 at 11:42 am

The Tennessee Republican Party celebrates Cinco De Mayo as a reminder of the importance of protecting a peoples’ culture:

“Celebrating ethnic and cultural pride within the context of the American story is as American as baseball, apple pie - and tacos - and Cinco de Mayo has grown in popularity here as more Mexicans have decided to join the American story,” said Robin Smith, chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party. “We honor the national pride displayed on this day of festivity and the importance of protecting a nation’s heritage and culture in order to ensure its ongoing freedom.”

Of course, the Tennessee Republican Party hasn’t always been so high on expressions of ethnic and cultural pride.

In a press release, which was uniformly derided by Tennesseans of all political persuasions two months ago, the Tennessee Republican Party chastised Barack Obama for wearing ethnic garb when visiting a foreign land and chided his parent’s decision to give a young Barack Obama an Arabic middle name.

RELATED: TNGOP spokesman cites study reporting half of all Mexicans in America as illegal aliens.

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