Posted on 01/22/2012 1:54:29 AM PST by Mozilla
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Friday accused Newt Gingrich of using racial “code words” in calling President Barack Obama the “food stamp president” and saying schools ought to hire children to do janitorial work.
The Texas congresswoman’s comments came in response to a question about remarks she made on the House floor Wednesday, when she said there are “candidates like Newt Gingrich who want to throw fuel and matches and fire to develop sort of an explosiveness in this country” and there are “underlying suggestions” to calling Obama the “food stamp president.”
“These are code words. It’s inappropriate,” Jackson Lee told MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Friday. “Let me say that the code words, as far as I’m concerned words that generate and signify race.”
Her comments came just days after former President Jimmy Carter made a similar charge against Gingrich.
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Same same -————> Sheila Jackson Lee ——> Cynthia McKenny
More whites than blacks use food stamps. Not only is Ms Jackson ignorant, she is racist. But I guess saying that makes me a racist....
First of all, was that in English? Second of all, if the shoe fits....
SJL has to be seriously challenging Maxine Waters for the dumbest most racist tool in our country today
I do believe you remark was racist! (but true). :)
You said night! It’s dark out at night! You racist!!!
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