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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Your Wife Is Indian": Internet reminds Texas Congressman Gill after his racist tweet
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"Your Wife Is Indian": Internet Slams US Politician Over Anti-Migration Comments https://share.google/YAPyvpbAKdZqfpPwK
"Your Wife Is Indian": Internet Slams US Politician Over Anti-Migration CommentsMany users were quick to point out that Mr Gill is married to Danielle D'Souza, daughter of prominent conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who is of Indian descent.
Representative Brandon Gill, a Republican serving Texas's 26th Congressional District, has sparked widespread controversy following a viral social media post where he criticised mass migration. The post, which has drawn significant backlash from users across platforms, featured a side-by-side comparison of California in the 1960s versus the present day, with the implication that immigration is responsible for what Mr Gill perceives as the state's decline.
"California in 1960 vs California today. Mass migration has made America unrecognisable," Mr Gill wrote on X while sharing two images. The first image depicted a serene 1960s beach scene with blonde-haired sunbathers, while another showed a dramatic moment from the LA riots, with a man waving a Mexican flag amidst flames.
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"Your Wife Is Indian": Internet reminds Texas Congressman Gill after his racist tweet (Original Post)
Demovictory9
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Ineedamoment
(9 posts)1. Wow! What a white-washed view of California in the 60s. /nt
Demovictory9
(36,167 posts)4. Yep. My (African Amer) family was in California the 1960s..lots of them.
Part of the migration out of the south.
Walleye
(40,888 posts)2. How about LA 1830? They are so sure that we are defending "illegals" because they will vote Democratic
But I guess being raised in an environment of closed mindedness, or something, when they believe something theres no way to change their minds. They just believe it. That is one of their cult brains, beliefs. Of course it doesnt make sense because Texas and Florida have large undocumented immigrant populations and they always go red.
brush
(60,208 posts)6. California was a part of Mexicon in 1830. The guy is just another magat moron.
Walleye
(40,888 posts)7. Yes, so we white people were the ones that actually changed the demographics
Its hard to believe how terrified some of these white men are of waking up one day and being in the minority
Jim__
(14,761 posts)3. Selective memory. A picture from Watts, 1965:

Jilly_in_VA
(12,080 posts)5. Somebody better remind Shady that his wife is also Indian
He wants to whitewash too.
Raven123
(6,729 posts)8. I wonder if these people would agree.

Among Earliest Photos of Arapahos
Taken by James Dempsey Hutton during William F. Raynoldss 1859 expedition of the Yellowstone region, this photograph of Arapahos (including Warshinun, on the right) is among the early images that triggered the photographic trend to capture views of frontier Indians in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Source: True West Magazine
I hope its ok to post this. The point being most of us are children of immigrants.
boonecreek
(1,010 posts)11. I certainly am.
My mother came over from England in 1948 and my paternal grandfather's family
came from Denmark in the late 1880s.
JI7
(92,037 posts)9. People are still surfing and enjoying the beach today
they might not all look like the people in the pic but they didn't all look like that back then either.
Norrrm
(1,868 posts)10. Vance apologized to his white supremacists that his wife is not white.