LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS – Former Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee celebrated Cinco De Mayo by tweeting about guzzling salsa and watching Speedy Gonzales cartoons, and now faces a backlash in the social media world.
Huckabee, the former Governor of Arkansas, tweeted:
“For Cinco de Mayo I will drink an entire jar of hot salsa and watch old Speedy Gonzales cartoons and speak Spanish all day. Happy CdMayo!”
The backlash mounted in the hours following the curious post with at least 9,000 responses; some called Huckabee’s tweet “casual racism” while others threw in the mix attacks on Huckabee’s White House spokesperson daughter Sarah and reminders of how Huckabee’s son might have tortured a dog at a boy scout camp years ago.
Huckabee hit back, though, tweeting:
“To humorless trolls who soiled themselves re: my earlier tweet-stop following me;follow someone sensitive and kind like Stephen Colbert”
For Cinco de Mayo I will drink an entire jar of hot salsa and watch old Speedy Gonzales cartoons and speak Spanish all day. Happy CdMayo!
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 5, 2017
To humorless trolls who soiled themselves re: my earlier tweet-stop following me;follow someone sensitive and kind like Stephen Colbert
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 5, 2017
Proud of daughter Sarah subbing at WH press briefing today. Her Dad thinks she crushed it! Hey I'm as unbiased as the media! pic.twitter.com/txXD10ocMf
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 5, 2017
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) May 5, 2017
Someday maybe America will be free of mexico and the middle east – both like our money but not our country or our way of life.
Cinco de mayo celebrates mexico bull crap. It’s not about mexican Ifood and friends. I’ts about mexican hate toward America. When I observe how mexicans push this 5th of May bs, all I see is a bunch of mexicans pushing there agenda.
If mexicans want to celebrate a mexican holiday they can go home to mexico and celebrate it there.
America celebrates it’s independence July 4th.
Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day.
It actually commemorates a battle on the fifth of May. The Battle of Puebla in 1862, in which the Mexican Army successfully defended itself against the French. that was an unexpected victory of the Mexican army over the French forces.
Many Mexicans believe without that victory Mexico would have been owned by the French and do consider it the beginning of Mexico’s independence.
I have never in my 50 years heard of any Hispanic person that considers Conce De Mayo to be the Mexican independence
day.
Plain and simple it commemorates the battle over the French and has nothing to do with an Independence Day for Mexico.
Well Larrey, maybe you should be in Mexico on May 1 and you would probably learn something new.
Anon you have the wrong Larrey.
He could have said He would drive a buss free of charge deporting illegal wetback BACK to their holiday land.