So I was watching “This Week” on ABC a few minutes ago and the latino lady* on the panel said that Barack Obama really owed latinos because a majority of them voted for him so he had to appoint Bill Richardson as Secretary of State**.  No one at the table had the common decency to slap the living hell out of her for subjecting the rest of America to that verbal sewage, so here’s my effort to point out just how many, many things are wrong with that statement and ideology.

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Tags: affirmative action, bill richardson, identity politics, secretary of state, this week