I don’t think Chuck Todd is racist. He actually self corrected himself clarifying to Rick Scott that he meant people who are Spanish speaking.
Todd was born and raised in Miami, which was very Cuban even back then, and Cubans come in every color, and much less Indian/indegenous/Native American looking than Mexicans come here and parts of Central America (not that those areas don’t have every race also). So, he knows plenty of Americans are as white as him, even Jewish like him (the slang is Juban, Jewish Cuban). Now, Miami has Latin Americans from all over. Argentina and Chile are often German or Italian.
Like I said to @Ragingloli, it’s just out there that we are using the word racist for everything now. Religion, national origin, every minority group. I don’t know if it matters or not. Part of me thinks it’s worth pointing out being Hispanic is not a race, kind of explain to people who think everyone south of our border looks the same are being ignorant. It’s like saying the people in the US are one race. The other part of me thinks it shouldn’t matter anyway, because there is nothing wrong with being a different race.
As a Jewish person, I don’t like Jews being thought of as a different race. My husband told me he once overheard one of his girlfriends on the phone say to her dad that it was her first time in a mixed race relationship, and he was like WTF? She was white.
Our journalists have a lot of influence, and so I just wondered if the collective would be automatically thinking Hispanic when someone says non-white? I don’t, but I knew what he meant by context and that it was Florida. Like I said he quickly clarified in practically the same sentence.
@Dutchess_III I don’t remember the reason. He covered a lot of ground with Scott. A lot about elections and Russian interference, but other topics too, and I just don’t remember it all. Sorry. Maybe another jelly saw it.