February 19, 2005

Schlafly

Radley Balko is reporting from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and quotes Phillis Schlafly today saying some outrageous things, including,

"The majority of people getting a degree at the University of Texas are illegal aliens."

That's so stupid that I can believe she misspoke, was misquoted, or is too roaring drunk to know what she was saying.

Radley writes, "I'm almost certain most of her [speech] is outright bullshit, but I don't have time to research it at the moment."

I have the a spare two minutes, so I found ethnicity statistics for the student body at UT.

2003-2004 school year by percentage.

White 60.6
American Indian 0.4
African American 3.6
Asian American 17.0
Hispanic 14.3
Foreign 3.5

So over 60% of the students are white. So unless she's talking about some mass illegal immigration from the Ukraine then it's safe to assume she's off her rocker. I suspect her other statements are similarly easy to debunk but my two minutes are up.

Posted by Walter at February 19, 2005 02:19 PM
Comments

Living here in Texas, and right on the border, I find it hard to believe that the people who knock on my door willing to clean my house for $2 an hour are actually UTEP students looking for some beer money. :)

Posted by: Deb at February 20, 2005 07:33 AM

Canadians. I tell you, she's talking about the Canadians.

Evil freakin' Canadians...

Posted by: zombyboy at February 22, 2005 04:36 PM