Bobby Jindal announced his entry into the Presidential race for 2015 on 24 June, making him the 13th Republican aspirant. Among the many things he said, there was this:
And it’s time we stopped trying to divide ourselves against each other. Hillary Clinton is already trying to divide us by ethnicity, by gender, and by economic status. As for me, I’m sick and tired of people dividing Americans. And I’m done with all this talk about hyphenated Americans. We are not Indian-Americans, Irish-Americans, African-Americans, rich Americans, or poor Americans –we are all Americans.
—Bobby Jindal, Governor, Louisiana
The Indian-American community, obviously, hasn’t taken too kindly to it and #BobbyJindalIsSoWhite has been trending on Twitter since. Hari Kondabolu, a comedian from Queens, currently living in Brooklyn, led the pack.
Several others followed suit.
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