What A Republican Looks Like

Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his parents.

It was a large home in a well-to-do suburb north of the city. Two American flags adorned the yard. The prospect's mom greeted him wearing an American flag T-shirt.

"I want you to know we support you," she gushed.

Rivera soon reached the limits of her support.

"Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people," she told him.

Gee, what do you think she meant by "our kind of people"? If that sentence sounds innocuous to you, reverse it - "Military service isn't for our son. It's for you kind of people."

If you're still not getting it, how light-skinned do you think Jason Rivera is?

(via Atrios.)