Posted on 07/26/2006 1:13:05 AM PDT by Stoat
Paul Krugman Sticks Neck Out, Calls Republicans Racists |
G.O.P. policies consistently help those who are already doing extremely well, not those lagging behind -- a group that includes the vast majority of African-Americans ...
The G.O.P. obsession with helping the haves and have-mores, and lack of concern for everyone else, was evident even in Mr. Bush's speech to the N.A.A.C.P. Mr. Bush never mentioned wages, which have been falling behind inflation for most workers. And he certainly didn't mention the minimum wage, which disproportionately affects African-American workers ...
Mr. Bush also never used the word ''poverty,'' a condition that afflicts almost one in four blacks.
Minimum wages can have a more insidious effect. In research for my book "South Africa's War Against Capitalism" (1989), I found that during South Africa's apartheid era, racist unions, who'd never admit blacks, were the major supporters of higher minimum wages for blacks.
Gert Beetge, secretary of South Africa's avowedly racist Building Worker's Union, in response to contractors hiring black workers, said, "There is no job reservation left in the building industry, and in the circumstances I support the rate-for-the-job [minimum wages] as the second best way of protecting our white artisans." Racists recognized the discriminatory effects of mandated minimum wages.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Sixty-three percent of minimum wage workers receive raises within one year of employment, and only 15 percent still earn the minimum wage after three years. Furthermore, only 5.3 percent of minimum wage earners are from households below the official poverty line; forty percent of minimum wage earners live in households with incomes $60,000 and higher; and, over 82 percent of minimum wage earners do not have dependents.
It's hard to deny that barely concealed appeals to racism, which drove a wedge between blacks and relatively poor whites who share the same economic interests, played a crucial role.
[T]he sainted Ronald Reagan began his presidential campaign with a speech on states' rights in Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.
These days the racist appeals have been toned down; Trent Lott was demoted, though not drummed out of the party, when he declared that if Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign had succeeded ''we wouldn't have had all these problems.'' Meanwhile, the G.O.P. has found other ways to obscure its economic elitism.
And there are also the ''values'' issues: abortion, stem cells, gay marriage.
A revelatory article in yesterday's Boston Globe described how the Bush administration has politicized the Justice Department's civil rights division, ''filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights.''
Not surprisingly, there has been a shift in priorities: ''The division is bringing fewer voting rights and employment cases involving systematic discrimination against African-Americans, and more alleging reverse discrimination against whites and religious discrimination against Christians.''
Above all, there's the continuing effort of the G.O.P. to suppress black voting.
The Supreme Court probably wouldn't have been able to put Mr. Bush in the White House in 2000 if the administration of his brother, the governor of Florida, hadn't misidentified large numbers of African-Americans as felons ineligible to vote. In 2004, Ohio's Republican secretary of state tried to impose a ludicrous rule on the paper weight of voter registration applications; last year, Georgia Republicans tried to impose an onerous ''voter ID'' rule. In each case, the obvious intent was to disenfranchise blacks.
If Republicans lose to these dinosaurs in the next elections, it will only be because they made breathtaking errors or simply didn't try.
This should help get him invited to more hollywood parties
That certainly appears to be a primary concern, if not the exclusive concern.
It astonishes me that any reasonably intelligent person can do the sort of thing that a Paul Krugman does, day in and day out, and is still able to look themselves in the mirror. Every basic test of logic disproves their entire ideology, yet they refuse to take a hint or to learn from their errors and failures. Are cocktail parties and fat paychecks able to corrupt people so easily? I suppose that Paul Krugman is living proof that they indeed can.
Agreed of course, but it continues to amaze me that such an obvious and easily provable falsehood can be so endlessly recycled to an apparently adoring readership. Goebbels would be proud.
Which party proposed and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 anyway Paul?
He is apparently not interested in such facts, just as I'm sure he is completely disinterested in the fact that Al Gore's dad opposed it.
It seems to me that anybody with an internet connection and a brain bigger than that of a mollusk would instantly realize that all of what Krugman is spewing are lies and leftist spin, yet the NY Times continues to sell newspapers at an alarmingly high rate (although their market share is steadily dropping.)
I suppose that for many people, habits are hard to break and it's difficult for them to respond to the NYT re-subscription caller with a "go stuff yourself, you Socialist twit".
This will gradually change as the Left continues it's meltdown and the NYT building eventually collapses upon itself because it simply cannot sustain itself with demonstrable and obvious lies any longer.
As a side note, there are few human beings more viciously criticized than the independent-minded Black man or woman who attempts to leave the Liberal (democratic) plantation. Krugman's attitude is emblematic of those on the Left who feel that "their" Blacks are an owned commodity who must toe the line in order to find sociopolitical acceptance; the ideological allegiance involved invariably includes both accepting and parroting, at every possible opportunity, the entire Liberal line from A to Z.
Indeed.
Many on the Left think in stereotypes ( which, not oddly enough, they accuse us of doing, google projection... ), lumping us all together.
It's one reason I frequently just laugh in their faces, rather than argue.
I view people a individuals, and react to them accordingly- not based on the color of their hide, the gear stowed between their legs, or who they chose to roll around in bed with.
A fun chant used by protesters ( you know, those Professional Malcontents who don't seem to be burdened by jobs, families, or other time-hungry responsibilities ) on the Left Coast runs
"Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay
Christian Bigots
Go Away!"
Let's break this down a bit, just for fun...
1)- Racist? Well, speaking as a white Southerner who grew up on an Island that was about a third black, we used that "N" word a lot...
We called 'em Neighbors...
First foreman I had was black, too. Oddly enough, we worked together fine.
2)- Sexist? Can't speak for them, but I've always liked women. Married a couple. Like 'em a friends-- there are just enough differences, and similarities, to make things interesting.
3)- Anti-Gay, huh? Well, I don't cotton to this Homosexual Marriage idea some of 'em peddle, and dragging kids into it is completely out of line, but my first brother-in-law was queer as a three dollar bill, and we got along fine. Then again, he was discreet, wasn't interested in children, and never mentioned marrying his partner...
4)- Christian? Well, so far as it's consistent with a life of sin ( hattip: Ambrose Bierce ) and being an Honorary Jew. Go figgur...
So yeah, I'm all that stuff... and I laugh in their faces.
Krugman--it's racist to want Iraqis enslaved.
Krugman--never veered away form the lie that is the left.
These people cannot be entrusted to govern.
These people would steal your earnings.
They cannot have more of mine. I will not give it to them to spend on their abortion spread the wealth BS programs. They are failures and have to lie.
Georgia Republicans tried to impose an onerous ''voter ID'' rule.How is showing an ID racist? Don't blacks drive cars? Do whites have a disproportionate number of ID's? Krudman is an idiot.
I think your astonishment is based on the assumption that people such as Krugman live with a viewpoint similar to ours; ie their love for America. People like Krugman hate America and all it stands for. They are socialists determined to destroy America, then build a global utopia where America is no longer the power it is today. It's this power that America has become that stands in their way of socialist dominance.
Cocktail parties and fat paychecks aren't the corruption; their global socialist ideal is the corruption. Never misunderstand where these people are coming from.
Sounds like Krugman is a bigot.
Can't get Federal, State, (much)Medical Services, a Dog
or even a bicycle license without producing valid ID...
But it's a "o0nerous burden" to require ID for
Voter validation...
We all know that this is the criminal Dems, protecting
one of their preferred methods for stuffing the ballot
boxes with illegitimate, illegal, and dead peoples "votes".
The man must have had a monumental struggle with his conscience to write that article. I'm sure someone will nominate him for a "Profiles in Courage" award.
Early 21st Century - Kings of the Ghettos: Democrats
Early 20th Century - Defenders of Segregation: Democrats
Early 19th Century - Slave Owners: Democrats
Who's racist?
I'd rather see pinheads like Krugman go completely unhinged. Ignorant of facts. Devoid of logic. In the end, it turns more sane and right thinking people off.
Some of us are old enough to remember what it was like to be in a modest middle class family in the 1950s. Not heaven on earth, but respectable . . . and that is what it's like to be "poor" in America 50 years later.As D'nish D'Sousa quotes his Indian friend on why he wanted to come to America, "I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat."
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