Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso raised eyebrows Tuesday when he corrected a debate moderator who known as him a “white guy.” (Watch the video underneath.)
“I’m Italian,” the billionaire developer retorted to chuckles. “That’s Latin, thanks.”
Caruso added that he felt “attached” to the Latino group, however “fairly frankly, my task is to connect to each group,” The Day-to-day Beast reported.
Caruso, a Democrat, used to be “seeming to signify a hyperlink between his heritage and far of town’s inhabitants,” the Los Angeles Occasions wrote. (Italy has a Latin language heritage, however the time period Latino in most cases refers to American citizens with Latin American roots — now not Eu.)
Some observers on Twitter weren’t purchasing it.
Caruso’s workplace didn’t right away respond to a HuffPost request for remark.
Listed here are every other reactions to Caruso’s feedback:
