GOP Candidate Contempt for Blacks Continues

Crew of 42
Posted: 03 Jan 2012 07:03 AM PST

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Think: When black people (otherwise knows as 40 million
Americans) have come up in GOP presidential candidate
discussion during the march towards the Iowa Caucus in what
context has it been in?

One of the candidates, Ron Paul, has support from white
supremacists? Is Paul rushing to the mic to voice concern in
any way? Should NewsOne or any other new organization, be
able to compile a 'Top 1o Racist Ron Paul Friends List' with
ease? Is this the same Republican party that claims to want
to court minorities? Blacks are 'brainwashed,' 'not working'
unless it’s 'illegal.' We’ve become so accustomed to bigotry
popping up from these candidates there is little reaction.
Not even the NAACP has put out a routine press release on the
general topic.

Yesterday it was former Sen. Rick Santorum’s turn to use
blacks as a political device to motivate whites. Your tax
dollar is going to support black-welfare-recipients was the
general theme there (see video below). With that, it would
appear that blacks come up in current GOP presidential
candidate circles for two general reasons: 1. as an object of
contempt, and 2. as a device to motivate white voters.

Ask yourself: Would you be a member of a group whose members
said what follows about a group to which you belonged?

"Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no
habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So
they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They
have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of ‘I do
this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s illegal." That’s
what a Republican candidate for President said three weeks
ago.

A second Republican candidate said:"I don’t want to make
Black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s
money. I want to give them the opportunity to earn the money
and provide for themselves and their families..."

A third Republican candidate for president published a
newsletter in his 50s claiming that "racial violence will
fill our cities" because "mostly black welfare recipients
will feel justified in stealing from mostly white 'haves'."

A fourth Republican candidate for the presidency signed a
pledge claiming that African American children were more
likely to grow up in stable families during slavery than in
contemporary times.

A ffith Republican candidate said, two months ago that, "many
African Americans have been brainwashed into not being open
minded not even considering a conservative point of view..."
two months ago. A sixth candidate had to explain a rock
outside the family ranch with the word "niggerhead" on it.
Well go figure. Take note that none of these moments were
not even close to being disqualifying.

There are 40 million Americans of African decent in the U.S.
and the five GOP presidential candidates know every single
one of them. They have "no habits of working" says one.
Blacks are"brainwashed" says another. With few examples the
left doesn’t strongly react and the right either agrees or
doesn’t care. The result is a long cowardly silence. Perhaps
Govs. Mitt Romney and John Huntsman have it right as they
steadfastly avoid the subjects effecting 40 million Americans
entirely. Hard to fathom when you realize it’s those two
candidates who should perhaps understand bigotry more clearly
than the others.

That former Sen. Santorum brings up Blacks within the context
of poverty is old school. Though 10% of whites in the U.S
were in poverty in 2010 you’d never know it listening to
Republicans running for President. There are 223,553,265
non-Hispanic whites in the U.S., 10% of whom live in poverty.
That’s 22,355,326 people. Yet when poverty comes up in GOP
political discussion it’s within the context of blacks only.
Blacks are the racial punchline in the GOP joke of poverty.
Though the U.S. now has more poor people now than at any
other time in history and 1 of 7 people living on the
financial margins, no GOP candidate has offered a single word
of policy on the subject.

What we have instead is another GOP candidate, this time Rick
Santorum, mentioning black Americans as a device to motivate
whites to believe their hard earned tax dollar is being
wasted on lazy Negroes. Therein lies a familiar role for
blacks in GOP "discussion." Never mind that $1 trillion in
tax money spent over 8+ years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Never
mind the $800 billion handed to bankers or the $15 billion a
year in farm subsidies - "America’s largest corporate welfare
program" said the Heritage Foundation in 2002. But rather
Santorum turns his attention to someone collecting $240 a
month on food stamps. You see, your money is being wasted on
"them." Sadly the "welfare queen" role still remains the
primary function of African Americans in GOP political policy
discussion 35 years after Ronald Reagan coined the phrase.

GOPers often speak on the goals and virtues of a "colorblind"
society. However when it comes to negative references
regarding 50 million Americans in poverty suddenly the focus
is on one color. "I don’t want to make Black people’s lives
better by giving them somebody else’s money" - says Rick
Santorum. With 50 million in poverty you’d think race might
take a back seat for once. But instead, over 22 million
white people suddenly vanish when GOP candidates address
poverty.

With Newt Gingrich’s assessment that poor kids have, "no
habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s
illegal," and Santorum’s underlying assumption that blacks
are living on "somebody else’s money" -, the reason the
contemporary "party of Lincoln" has failed to attract black
participation is crystal clear. Does anyone even become
surprised anymore by the occasional racist e-mail here and
there by party "leaders" Need a reminder? Read this... Did
anyone within the party even bother to criticize Rush
Limbaugh or Ann Coulter? Nope.

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