Lady Rmoney says "I know what it's like to be the daughter of immigrants."

[cynatnite]

http://news.yahoo.com/ann-romney-woos-hispanic-voters-luncheon-181637003--abc-news-politics.html

She tells this to a group of Hispanic voters. I found this laughable because her father was the president of a manufacturing company and she went to a private school.

What's worse is that she accuses these women of being biased. Unbelievable.

[spanone]

1. queen ann has spoken. you dare question the queen?

[Siwsan]

2. I'm pretty sure it was her father who came over, from Wales

Not that it makes that much of a difference. Annie never wanted to anything, no matter what generation American she is.

[cynatnite]

3. I read it was her grandfather who was a Welsh coalminer and that had immigrated...

It's probable that her father was a child at the time.

[Tx4obama]

5. Grandfather on her mother's side. But her father was an immigrant. See other post below. n/t

[Siwsan]

6. Her maternal grandfather came from Scotland. Her father was from Wales

She grew up in Bloomfield Hills, so she really would have a hard time identifying with most people, regardless of how many generations their families have been here.

[Tx4obama]

4. Here ya go. Great grandfather AND father

Born Ann Lois Davies,[2] she was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan,[3] by parents Edward R. Davies and Lois Davies (née Pottinger), her maternal great grandfather was an immigrant from Scotland. [4].[5] She has two brothers.[6] Her father, originally from Caerau near Bridgend, Wales,[7] was a self-made businessman who in 1946[8] co-founded Jered Industries, a maker of heavy machinery for marine use located in Troy, Michigan.[5][6][9] He had also held the part-time position of Mayor of Bloomfield Hills.[6][9] Raised in the Welsh Congregationalists, he had become strongly opposed to all organized religion,[6] although on her request the family very occasionally attended church, and she nominally identified as an Episcopalian.[10][11] At times she helped out at her father's plant.[12]

-snip-

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Romney#Early_life

I don't see anything on that page about where her mother came from.

[cynatnite]

8. Thanks for the info and educating me. n/t

[onethatcares]

7. aside from the Native Americans

who have been kicked to the curb, we are all sons and daughters of immigrants.

It's just that not all of us had mayors or big money in our lineage.

[CTyankee]

9. Half of my side of the family is Welsh, the other Scot.

As immigrants my forebears did not face the prejudices that people from other countries did. For one thing, they spoke English, albeit with heavy regional brogues. But that WAS an advantage, even if they did not have advanced education. So my forebears had a lot more going for them, thru no effort on their own, than other immigrants. They were also Protestant in what was then a heavily Protestant country here in the U.S. So no religious discrimination.

This is an important point!

[GAPeach]

10. Iam an immigrant

My mom came to the US in !948(with me...a babe in arms). She had a really hard time even though she spoke English. Due to white peoples prejudice towards Germany. Why on earth would they blame her?

I was ashamed to tell the other kids Used born in Germany because they would ask if I was Hitler's granddaughter.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. There was a lot of anger towards Germans as a whole, because of WWII.

It certainly wasn't fair. I'm sorry your mom had to endure that. She did NOT deserve it.

Welcome to DU, GAPeach!

I'm glad you found us.

[DURHAM D]

12. "white peoples" prejudice?

[ailsagirl]

13. she's so full of it-- she & nitt are the perfect couple

Liars

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. To this I say bullshit, I'm sorry

if you're white, English speaking, and have an Anglo-Celtic surname? The same people who rant about immigration will give you a pass. British immigrants to the US in the early 20th century would not face the same sort of discrimination and prejudice that say...Italians, Poles, Russians, Jews, Asians, Hispanics, Africans or pretty much any other non-English-speaking, non-white, non-Protestant group would have.

Anecdotally, I've heard a Brit living and working in the States relate an incident of a coworker going on about "damned immigration blah blah jobs blah blah something needs to be done", and he said "um, immigrants? hello!" which was met with "oh I don't mean YOU"...the subtext there is pretty obvious, I should think.

[Cha]

15. Anngry thinks Hispanics are stupid and

don't know the gopricks are the ones making their lives miserable.

Her relating that she's an immigrant too..makes me think of booman's analysis of her speech..

"But, really, Ann Romney's speechwriter is the biggest hack in the universe. I wonder if she actually wrote it herself and no one had the balls to edit it ."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125180233

[Monk06]

16. She was the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist who originally came from Wales.

He didn't walk through the Sonora desert with a bottle of water to get to the US. He started a heavy machinery business after WWII, Three years before she was born. Not exactly straight off the boat.

No comparison whatsoever.