Bobby Jindal Capitalizes on His Role at Center of Assimilation Debate
A “tanned, rested, ready” T-shirt is the latest volley in a long week of debate over how to talk about his ties, or lack of ties, to his Indian heritage.
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Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal, the first Indian-American governor in the U.S., on Tuesday advertised a campaign T-shirt that has the words “Tanned. Rested. Ready” printed on the front. In case the innuendo wasn’t clear, Jindal tweeted: “The liberal media said, ‘There’s not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal,’ so we made shirts to mock them.”
The shirt was the latest volley in a long week of debate over how to talk about Jindal’s ties, or lack of ties, to his Indian heritage. During his campaign announcement speech on Wednesday, Jindal joked that he was “tanned, rested, and ready,” but only mentioned the word “Indian” once, when he talked about what America is not.