Schwarzenegger: Cubans 'all very hot'
On a tape of a closed-door meeting with advisers, film star turned Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of “black blood” and “Latino blood".
“I mean Cuban, Puerto-Rican, they are all very hot,” the governor said on the recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
“They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it.”
The six-minute tape came from a speechwriting session with Schwarzenegger and was made earlier this year. On it, Schwarzenegger and chief of staff Susan Kennedy speak affectionately of assembly-woman Bonnie Garcia and speculate about her nationality.
Garcia, who is Puerto Rican and the legislature’s only Latina Republican, told the Times the governor’s remarks did not bother her.
“I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am,” she said.
“Very often I tell him: ’Look, I am a hot-blooded Latina.’ I label myself a hot-blooded Latina that is very passionate about the issues, and this is kind of an inside joke that I have with the governor.”
