Posted on 09/28/2015 8:02:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At a campaign event in South Carolina on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was asked how he planned to include black people in his campaign and get them to vote for him.
Bush responded, “Our message is one of hope and aspiration.” But he didn’t stop there. He continued: “It isn’t one of division and get in line and we’ll take care of you with free stuff. Our message is one that is uplifting — that says you can achieve earned success.”
There it is! If you let people talk long enough, the true self will always be revealed. Not only is there a supreme irony in this racial condescension that casts black people, whose free labor helped establish the prosperity of this country and who were systematically excluded from the full benefits of that prosperity for generations, as leeches only desirous of “free stuff,” this line of reasoning also infantilizes black thought and consciousness and presents an I-know-best-what-ails-you paternalism about black progress.
It echoes the trope about lazy “welfare queens,” although as a report last year from the Congressional Research Service makes clear: “Historically, nonwhite women had a higher labor force participation rate than did white women. This especially held true for married women.”
Furthermore, although blacks are disproportionately the recipients of programs likes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a 2013 report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that most households with at least one working-age, non-disabled adult receiving the benefit work, and of those with families, “almost 90 percent work in the prior or subsequent year.”(continued)
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Can we please get past slavery already???
Never, if the Charles Blows of the world have their way.
When the NYT squeals loudest, one is closest to the truth.
Yes, Mr. Blow, Bush sucks, you won’t get any argument from me.
Go NY Times! We hate Bush’s guts too!
Not a Bushie, but I don’t see anything denigrating to blacks about what he said. Maybe to Democrats.
Why is it that the Hispanics and the Asians for the most part are able to become productive members of our society, yet many blacks prefer to remain on the dole rather than lift THEMSELVES up. They just don’t seem to get personal responsibility. There do not seem to be that many Hispanics or Asians ghettoes.
Jeb always finds new ways to sink himself.
He and Karl Rove must have agreed to pave the way for a DNC win so Jeb prostituted himself to be the biggest doofus on the circuit.
Trump is messing up all those plans. Many people are sick and tired of the good old boys’ Uniparty.
It looks like he was countering what Bammy promised.
Still, Bush sucks and no Bush will ever be elected President of this country ever again. Liberals won’t have him and conservatives most certainly won’t. That’s why Jebby is the designated loser. Americans starving, out of work, and here comes Jeb with illegal immigration.
You couldn’t ask for a bigger idiot on the GOPe stage.
The day after amnesty poor blacks are irrelevant. All the whining in the world won’t matter for them.
Yep, them and poor whites, poor asians, poor former middle class of any stripes. And poor legal immigrants of any race or color.
This is a rigged system by the Cheap Labor Express.
I really don’t see his point. Married black women work because their husbands won’t? This Blow guy sounds like a white racist to me.
No we can't as long as some people have an inferiority complex only because of the color of their skin.
I do. He talks of blacks wanting "free stuff". He talks of Latinos as "dreamers" who come here "out of love". You can see where his sympathies lie.
no more obamaphone?
What could Jeb Bush do to earn your coveted vote? Is there anything that will help him? Maybe he just needs to know the truth.
I’m sure he can’t figure out what’s going wrong, either.
Obama admitted he DID Blow.......hmmmmmm.
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