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Open Mouth, Insert Foot

Posted on February 28th, 2008 10:31am by Wick Allison
Filed under Politics

Dallas’ very own Adelfa Callejo is, when she’s not in front of a reporter, a very nice lady. But when the cameras are rolling, she is liable to spew forth, which she did to very great effect yesterday.

7 Comments to “Open Mouth, Insert Foot”

columbiasooner @ February 28th, 2008 at 10:41 am

Story here…

http://cbs11tv.com/politics/ob.....64689.html
Rawlins @ February 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

I will never understand why people who came of age at a certain time allow themselves to remain intact remnants of any era that has come and gone.
julie @ February 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

Because Rawlins, when you have certain beliefs pounded into your brain from a very young age until adulthood, it’s almost impossible for most people to change their thinking.
Bob Stoller @ February 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

You describe her as a very nice lady. Is she very nice to White people? Is she very nice to Black people? Is she very nice to Hispanics who disagree with her verbal bomb-throwing? Hard to tell from her public appearances over the last couple of decades.
tauri @ February 28th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

As a child I volunteered at a nursing home, so I’ve spent lots of time around Senior Citizens. Many of them were in different stages of dementia, however most with amazing clarity of the mind. It is, of coarse, possible for people at any age to choose to think a different way despite how long they have been indoctrinated with one method of thinking. Absolving them of choice due only to age is unfair. It gives her less credit.
I’m sure she gave her words much thought and chose to express her feelings in a public way. Don’t diminish her thoughts by blaming it on age.
She has a right to her opinion, of coarse. However sad it is.

ps…I don’t normally proclaim my blackness, but I just so happen to be black!
Wylie H. @ February 28th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Adelfa Callejo, a nice lady????

Check out this cover story the Dallas Observer ran on her a few years back:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/.....r-chamber/

Or talk to any of the honest, hard working Hispanics in this town who have inadvertently triggered one of her “trip wires.”
Highway 6 @ February 28th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

Is all the talk due to the revelation of a previously unknown animosity between African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans? I doubt it. I’ve heard of this before, so it can’t be news. What’s news, I think, is that someone actualy verbalized it in the public media.

We need to get over this. If we’re ever going to have the kind of society that most of us at least outwardly proclaim that we want then we’re going to have to realize that there are these kinds of feelings under the periodically harmonious veneer of racial harmony that political correctness demand. They are real, and we’re going to have to deal with them.