What do you think about Arnold Schwarzenegger's remarks? Please vote. Schwarzenegger Regrets 'Very Hot' Remark By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 8, 7:46 PM California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger explains tape-recorded remarks about Assemblywoman ... SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying in a closed-door meeting that the mixture of Hispanic and black blood gives Puerto Ricans and Cubans "very hot" personalities. The Republican governor said he cringed when he read his own words in the Los Angeles Times story on Friday and added that the comments, referring to a GOP legislator, were not "meant to be in any negative way." Some critics were outraged, but even some Democrats said his remarks appeared to be more playful than disparaging. "Anyone out there that feels offended by those comments, I just want to say I'm sorry, I apologize," Schwarzenegger told reporters outside a seaside hotel in Santa Monica. The statements about Hispanics and blacks were captured on a six-minute tape made during a March 3 speechwriting session between Schwarzenegger and his advisers. On it, Schwarzenegger and chief of staff Susan Kennedy speak affectionately of state Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia and speculate about her nationality. "I mean Cuban, Puerto-Rican, they are all very hot," the governor says on the recording. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it." Schwarzenegger, in a tight re-election race, has displayed a more restrained, statesmanlike demeanor while all but retiring his trademark Hollywood swagger. But the newly disclosed remarks challenge that carefully managed image and provide a reminder of his history of off-the-cuff _ and sometimes off-color _ remarks. He once called California legislators "girlie men" and talked of kicking nurses' "butts," the kind of comments he has sought to avoid during his re-election year. Garcia, who is Puerto Rican, appeared with Schwarzenegger on Friday and said she was not offended by the governor's comments. Garcia earlier told the Times that she often calls herself a "hot-blooded Latina." Schwarzenegger also said he called leaders from ethnic groups, who he said were not upset. The Democrat who wants to unseat him, state Treasurer Phil Angelides, said the governor "used language that is deeply offensive to all Californians." U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Schwarzenegger's "racist comments were disgusting," while Esteban Torres, chairman of the National Latino Media Council, called the remarks "an enormous slip of the Schwarzenegger tongue." But Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, a Democrat who chairs the state Legislative Black Caucus, called the remarks "usual political banter. We do this all the time. In this case, it just happened to be taped." "These are hardly Nixon's Watergate tapes," said Richard Stapler, a spokesman for state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat. Schwarzenegger aides routinely tape his speechwriting sessions so the writers can keep a record of his thoughts and speaking patterns. The newspaper did not say how the tape was obtained. The participants suggest during the meeting that they know they are being recorded. ___ Associated Press Writers Peter Prengaman in Los Angeles, and Samantha Young, Juliet Williams, Laura Kurtzman and Robin Hindery in Sacramento contributed to this report. Peace.
:evil: Knuckleheaded Arnold should never even have been elected governor in the first place :!: That's what you get when the dummies are in charge of the asylum :!:
I don't think he meant it as a way to keep people down or keep people from rights and opportunity. I do think it shows his lack of knowledge about people's behavior. On the mixed blood thing: Many Cubans and Puerto Ricans do have African blood so he was not wrong in that. Hell, we are all mixed – it's just that we choose not to accept it.
You're right that is a fact...but isn't it also true that his father was a member of the NAZI PARTY :evil: :?: :!: Now to mention that would be factually correct but very inappropriate...or maybe not given his latest remarks which he has since apologized for :!:
I think I remember read that somewhere but I'm not 100% sure. I don't know West Coast politics but I thought Arnold was on the left socially but on the right fiscally. That would lead me to believe that he did not mean it in a racist way. I think we all say stupid things, I know I have and I'm sure I'll do it again but this is an interesting topic. Does it mean a person is racist if they make a comment like “Conan” or could he just be unenlightened? What is real racism? I say when you work and do things to keep people based on their race, from obtaining things within their abilities. Deep in my heart, I just think “Mr. Terminator” just needs to learn a little more about people and history and understand that people are people in the end. Man I've seen some hot headed white people in my life. Maybe they were really black and Latin. You learn something new every day!!!
About the only thing Arnold was really guilty for was saying it outloud where it could be recorded like that. Let's not pretend that some whites don't feel that way about many minority women behind the scenes. But I don't think he meant any real racism by it. Remember, this was the same Arnold who reportedly participated in some wild sex activities back during his bodybuilding career. And wasn't it reported that one of the chicks in a gangbang he participated in was black?? Besides, did ya'll happen to see state Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia at that press conference standing next to Arnold?? She is muy caliente!!
I don't disagree, dawg. But remember who some of the people were running against him - Gary Coleman and Mary Carey, the pornstar! Besides, I think the real knuckleheads are were the ignorant California voters who probably could have voted for Arianna Huffington or Lt. Gov. Bustamante. But in typical American voter fashion, they screwed the pooch and went high school popularity contest.
A person can still be racist even if they have done the deed with a black person. But I do agree with you hellspawn.
My point exactly because at the time I was hoping that Lt. Gov Bustamante would win but it wasn't to be. Racist or not, it was a dumb comment even if true and thant's why he apologized...THAT AND THE FACT THAT HE'S RUNNING FOR RE ELECTION. :wink:
:arrow: AH’NOLD STILL APOLOGIZING FOR COMMENT: Calif. governor visits black church in East Oakland to make amends. (September 12, 2006) *Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, currently campaigning to keep his job, knew he messed up when the Los Angeles Times published a recording of him saying Cubans and Puerto Ricans are "hot tempered" because of their mixture of black and Latin blood. "I just want to say I'm sorry; I apologize. It was an off-the-record conversation, and it was not meant to be [taken] in any negative way," Schwarzenegger said at a news conference Friday. "It made me cringe. It made me feel uncomfortable." ‘ Two days after offering that public mea culpa, California’s head honcho visited a mostly African-American church in East Oakland Sunday to apologize some more. "If we all work together we could eliminate all the problems," Schwarzenegger told the congregation of Allen Temple Baptist Church to sustained applause. "And this is exactly what we need to d all of us working together, Democrats, Republicans, church leaders, community leaders, everyone." Pastor J. Alfred Smith welcomed the governor with open arms, and said the governor’s remarks were hardly offensive. "I think the press blew it out of proportion, because I'm black and proud," Pastor Smith said. "And I wish he would have said that J. Alfred Smith is a dynamic, a little East Oakland leader, because of the rich ancestral blood from the motherland, and of Africa, that flows through his veins." :arrow:
