Posted on 09/30/2015 12:39:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb Bush’s recent comments in South Carolina about Democrats getting black people to vote for them by promising them “free stuff” during election season is a powerful reminder that a leading Republican presidential candidate is woefully ignorant about contemporary race relations and the history that’s shaped the racial-justice struggle.
Ironically, the former governor of Florida’s statement echoed Mitt Romney’s infamous remarks about the 47 percent of Americans who longed for government handouts, said while discussing minority-voter outreach and the Republican Party.
During an interview with Fox News Sunday, Bush doubled down on his comments. “We need to make our case to African-American voters and to all voters that an aspiration message fixing a few complex things will allow people to rise up,” explained the Republican presidential hopeful. “That’s what people want. They don’t want free stuff. That was my point.”
Bush’s demonization of African Americans as a group whose loyalty to the Democratic Party has been purchased via big-government spending continues the Republican assault on black dignity and citizenship, a struggle marked by contemporary voting-rights battles taking place across the nation.
Black Americans have been the hardest-working and least-rewarded group in American history. African-American rates of employment, income and wealth pale in comparison with those of whites, the result of a long and continuous history of institutional racism that Bush simply ignores.
Racial insensitivity is a Bush family trait. George H.W. Bush, the 41st president, defeated Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1988 by running the infamous Willie Horton ads that played upon national fears of black criminality and racial violence.
George W. Bush’s halting response to Hurricane Katrina inspired widespread criticism punctuated by Kanye West’s famous assertion that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Neither does his younger brother, apparently....
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A goodly number of Caucasian people are on welfare, maybe more in total numbers than blacks, although not in terms of percent of population.
But, that aside, here's a radical thought. No free money for anybody who is young enough and able-bodied enough to work. I recognize that at a certain age you will be unlikely to work as you did when younger, but if you are below that age then working for a living is the way to go. Note: IMO veterans who have honorably served have earned their benefits.
They’ve bled the Katrina thing to death.
They never mention the black mayor who could not have cared less what happened to the poor blacks.
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They never mention the black mayor who could not have cared
less what happened to the poor blacks.
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As far as I know Nagin is still serving his 10 year prison sentence as
Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate No. 32751-034.
Just another race baiting bigot. Bush's ads never showed Horton. The people who made Horton's race an issue were race baiting Leftists power whores like this "Professor"
Big Media politicized it all for us because Nagin was the belligerent and sacrificed people in his quest to hurt W.
All because we were relentlessly told by Big Media that W really lost the 2000 election.
Most of the remaining “Republican” candidates will go out as nastily as possible to do as much damage as they can to Trump.
His comments smell like a setup.
I think it was 200......................
Yes, he should! I can’t wait until that day comes.
We should have a pool. I would pick tomorrow but I think that is overly optimistic. I fear he will hold on until March 16th, 2016.
TRUTH: It's the new HATE SPEECH.
Hell yeah, they don’t call it free stuff because that’s insulting, they call it R E P A R A T I O N S because that’s justus!
That's not a claim. That's a statement of fact.
Of course; it could also be said of all Democrats; and it would still be a statement of fact.
Up until 1967 that was true Professor....
As a group?
No. Not even close.
Thanks for posting that uncensored. Sometimes the actual words just need to be said: p.c. be damned.
The truth is what it is...it’s a historical fact and it shouldn’t be hidden from view.
Cuz all dem white folks that built this country don't mean squat ...
I hadn’t thought of that...you may well be right.
However, I think Trump can easily distance himself from his erstwhile (well soon to be) competitors....Bush never spoke for Trump. And Trump has had excellent African American numbers in a few polls.
bttt
The misnamed “professor” sounds like another affirmative action scrounge living off working people.
You are correct Red Badger
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