Josh Treviño, GOP Consultant: "My Red Hair And Pale Skin IS My Passport"

Joshua S. Treviño, a former speechwriter for the Bush administration and a co-founder of RedState.com, appeared to endorse racial profiling in border control on Monday.

Trevino wrote on Twitter, "Dear Border Patrol: my red hair and pale skin IS my passport, bureaucrats."

After criticism from other Twitterers, he later added, "For the record, kids: that border should be open, open, open. But if you're going to check documents, don't be a fool about it." He went on to say that he himself is half-Mexican (but, apparently, he doesn't look it). Accused of "self-loathing," he replied: "My loyalty is to my country, not my ethnicity."

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[jemiltd]

11:08 AM on 09/26/2009

Doesn't he look a lot like Michael Finton?

[Ecoutez]

06:24 PM on 09/24/2009

I've noticed many Finnish people look very Asian.

[gaebolgaes]

05:10 AM on 09/23/2009

red hair is an genotype expression of a blond and a black parent.clan ivar of the viking people was founded by a black viking. they were called "dubhgall" or black foreigners.half of the viking raiders were black africans "fomorians". halfdan the black an african was the first king of norway. "thorehall "half dane ..another african was the trusted steward of "eric the red." earl thorfinn another african ruled over 9 earldoms.most of the knights of the round table were black. parsifal..the "piebald" or "two-colored knight" had a white father and an african mother. lancelots best friend was a moorish knight..so black that at night "only his teeth could be seen. they fought over the same girl for years...later becoming friends. lancelot converted his friend to christianity.these men like the native american african hebrews who were in america before the mongloid and siberian peoples shared the 41% haplo group A genetic marker.

[Berkeleylefty]

10:04 AM on 09/23/2009

Trevino is still a jakazz

[Ecoutez]

06:17 PM on 09/24/2009

Thank you for this history lesson....excellent research.

[tantrictim]

11:16 PM on 09/22/2009

this is how trevino and his pal erickson practice yellow journalism at redstate.org, puts his comments in perspective

RedState's ACORN "exclusive" based on theft? Another questionable tactic in conservative assault on Obama, ACORN

In a recent "exclusive" report, RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson analyzed "a list of [ACORN CEO] Bertha Lewis's contacts" that "just showed up one day unsolicited" from "a credible source who is no fan of ACORN," and claimed, "We did not ask for it. We did not expect to get it. But now that we have it, we should see who is in there." In analyzing a private contact list apparently obtained without Lewis' knowledge or permission, conservatives, in their obsessive quest to attack ACORN, have added possible theft to a growing list of questionable tactics that include the secret taping of ACORN employees, lying about whether any ACORN officials turned away filmmaker-activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, and secretly taping a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) phone conference

http://mediamatters.org/research/200909220035

[Berkeleylefty]

04:42 PM on 09/22/2009

Josh...Here is another group who also have red hair and pale skin and the don't need passports!!

http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=67

Can we say Patos? (Ducks)

[vonPinto]

04:44 PM on 09/22/2009

LOL.

[MRb1000]

04:26 PM on 09/22/2009

He forgot to add he is 100% ignorant!

[seattle music]

04:01 PM on 09/22/2009

Can we throw him back?

We don't like his kind 'round here.

[Ecoutez]

03:55 PM on 09/22/2009

I'm curious....I had a friend who traveled to Spain. When she spoke she was teased for her dialect of speaking "Indian Spanish." What's up with this seemingly denigration of the language....or do all Spaniards make the distinction by speaking Castillian (sp), "proper" Spanish?.....

[Berkeleylefty]

04:25 PM on 09/22/2009

The same goes for English. Though in Spain, they have always looked "down" at the Spanish spoken by the "colonies" instead of the Queen's Spanish (Castillian). Sound familar "on this side of the pond"?

[chicagurl]

06:46 PM on 09/22/2009

I can absolutely assure you that it's not just Spaniards who do this. You have that going on everywhere. When we were in Montreal last year, they were complaining that when they go to Paris, they're denigrated for the "type" of French they speak. Evidently it's not the same French as those in France speak. Cajuns run into the same thing. Back here in the U.S., I'm not blameless either. I tend to smirk sometimes when I hear someone from the south with "y'all," and their accent and dialect. (Mostly because I tend to think they're automatically republicans.)

[VeroucaSalt]

03:49 PM on 09/22/2009

Wow, dude's got some major issues with his identity. With that red hair & pale skin, he COULD be a member of the IRA - how would a border patrol agent know?

[IntelligenceQuantifier]

03:36 PM on 09/22/2009

To think I was going to waste my money hard earned money, and reapply for a passport. Who would've thought I could just swing over to Duane Reade, and buy some white Griffin shoe polish to get the coveted white pastey look, and then hop on over to the Halloween costume shop and purchase a Raggedy Ann wig. Voila, instant Anglo! I'd look ridiculous, but at least I'd breeze through Customs.

[ForeverHopeful]

02:35 PM on 09/22/2009

To be white and arrogant, what a blessing!

[chicagurl]

02:56 PM on 09/22/2009

Only half-white apparently. Obviously forgetting his "brown" roots............

[Berkeleylefty]

04:39 PM on 09/22/2009

Cafe Con Leche!!!

[katocat]

02:12 PM on 09/22/2009

I guess we don't need identification anymore... just get some hair coloring and we can let you in.

[MeloMelo66]

02:06 PM on 09/22/2009

unfortunately, i know quite a few people like this who are ashamed of their race and who think that being white is better than their actual ethnicity, this makes me think of course of Michelle Malkin.....sad, sad, sad.... hating urself and ur ehtnicity

[fabricnthreads]

01:52 PM on 09/22/2009

Is our former presidential speech writers tweeting?

[noudidnt]

03:51 PM on 09/22/2009

good one

[monk2000]

01:43 PM on 09/22/2009

You're loyalty is to corporate CEO's Bush Boy. You have 0 loyalty to America or Americans. Stop your lying.