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Jack Kingston: I guess the problem though really is what is his crime? The crime is he is Hispanic and in the liberal welfare support…

On the recordMarch 5, 2003
I guess the problem though really is what is his crime? The crime is he is Hispanic and in the liberal welfare support society out there, if you are a minority group in America, you are supposed to think and act in a certain way, and if you do not, by golly, look what happens. My friend, Clarence Thomas from Sandfly, Georgia, he went through the same living hell and personal accusations and everything else because he was an African American and did not believe in everything that he was told he was supposed to believe in. His problem was he was an independent thinker. And I guess Estrada is an independent thinker who does not look to liberal institutions to tell him how he is supposed to think and behave and that is what this is about.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the treatment of minority individuals in political contexts.

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