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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The TRUTH often hurts.
He didn’t say black people want free stuff, he said Democrats try to woo them offering free stuff.
Its the Democrats who see black people as only wanting free stuff. Obviously its not true, since only 90% of black voters vote Democrat.
Up until 1967 that was true Professor.................But not since then, thanks to LBJ and his 'Great Society'..................
Well, it’s kinda true....
All the same, I’m glad Yeb said it instead of Trump or Cruz.
“Insults Our Dignity and History of Struggle”
You don’t need Bush, you’ve got the DNC to do that.
He’ll probably go on Al Sharpton’s show.
They object, but they don’t deny it...
“Oh good grief. I was in Katrina, there was nothing more anyone could have done.”
You mean besides Nagin politicizing a hurricane to try to hurt a Republican president?
“New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was also criticized for failing to implement his evacuation plan and for ordering residents to a shelter of last resort without any provisions for food, water, security, or sanitary conditions. Perhaps the most important criticism of Nagin is that he delayed his emergency evacuation order until less than a day before landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who (by that time) could not find any way out of the city.[2] Adding to the criticism was the broadcast of school bus parking lots full of yellow school buses which Mayor Nagin refused to be used in evacuation. When asked why the buses were not used to assist evacuations instead of holing up in the Superdome, Nagin cited the lack of insurance liability and shortage of bus drivers.”
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_government_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
Jeb Bush’s Claim That Blacks Want ‘Free Stuff’ for Votes Insults Our Dignity and History of Struggle.
Therefore the only solution is to give us some free stuff to make us feel better.
Translation: “For heaven’s sake, stop talking about how our votes are bought with free s**t! Keep giving us the free s**t, just stop talking about it! It offends our dignity and majesty!”
Nothing like a chip on the shoulder racist.
I was in Biloxi, Mississippi, not New Orleans, Louisiana.
All this while W. Bush celebrated Cinco de Mayo up in the White House, while it was discovered his Homeland scrutiny boss had people wandering around the inside his private residence who'd entered the U.S. illegally.
During war time.
that a leading Republican presidential candidate ...
When did Jeb Bush III become a leading candidate?
Every race has people who will work hard and those who will rely upon welfare. Look at the UK, there are plenty of all races on the dole.
I have worked continuously from the age of 12 with a newspaper route to the current age of 46 as an IT specialist. I have been a busboy, a dishwasher, a prep cook, an executive chef, I have worked landscaping and in nurseries with plants and herbs, I have done programming, networking, desktop and server support for the last 18 years for the state of Alaska. I have seen hard-working people of all races, and I’ve seen bums, homeless, alcoholics, mental health issues, you name it, of all races.
We’re all in this together.
Bingo. We have a winner.
“I was in Biloxi, Mississippi, not New Orleans, Louisiana.”
Thanks for clarification.
Really? When Obozo won his first election, I recall watching a black woman on TV praising God for electing a black man to the Presidency because now she wouldn't have to worry about her mortgage, or car payment, whereupon there was another series of hallelujahs. I would say the writer is "woefully ignorant" of how a lot of blacks view political parties. If he's correct, please explain why we have programs that use tax dollars to give deadbeats a cell phone? Where in the hell does it say the gov't is responsible for anyone having the "right" to a cell phone?
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