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Jeb Bush’s Claim That Blacks Want ‘Free Stuff’ for Votes Insults Our Dignity and History of Struggle
The Root ^ | September 29, 2015 | Pofessor Peniel E. Joseph, founding director, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at theroot.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; bush; gibs; gibsmedat; katrina; thegibs; welfare
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.

Having the dead and illegals vote does nothing for the black communities. If anything, it further dilutes their vote, just like it does for the rest of us.

And what, exactly, has the Democrat party offered besides big-government spending? Well besides broken homes, millions of black babies who never had the chance to live, a miserable economy that hits the black community hardest, abandonment of law and order in black communities, substance abuse, dependency, patronization and emasculation. Plus slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation.

How dare those wascally wepublicans try to treat blacks based on the content of their character rather than the color of their infantile skin.
21 posted on 09/30/2015 12:50:37 PM PDT by chrisser (This space for rent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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

Enough with the fake indignation - With something like 70% of all black households on Foodstamps and some other means-tested Government welfare program, I think its really up to "The Root" to prove Bush's statement is NOT true.

22 posted on 09/30/2015 12:50:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Yashcheritsiy

“All the same, I’m glad Yeb said it instead of Trump or Cruz.”

I bet it’s a setup, and by tomorrow, both will be asked about it.


23 posted on 09/30/2015 12:51:13 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: treetopsandroofs

People tend to forget that the hurricane hit Mississippi, not Louisiana.


24 posted on 09/30/2015 12:53:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: arbitrary.squid

Every race has people who will work hard and those who will rely upon welfare.
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Great point.


25 posted on 09/30/2015 12:55:48 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pofessor Peniel E. Joseph, founding gibsmedat director, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy Free Sh!t and Handouts.

Fixed it.

26 posted on 09/30/2015 12:57:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You mean like this: http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/With_Apologies_to_Jesse_Jackson


27 posted on 09/30/2015 12:59:21 PM PDT by nomad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb Bush’s Claim That Blacks Want ‘Free Stuff’ for Votes Insults Our Dignity and History of Struggle

No problem, Jeb! will simply apologize for telling the truth.

28 posted on 09/30/2015 1:01:19 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb Bush’s Claim That Blacks Want ‘Free Stuff’ for Votes Insults Our Dignity and History of Struggle

Really? Then why was their a massive shift in the Black vote from Republican to Democrat right after Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" government giveaway programs?

Prior to 1964, the Black vote was almost universally Republican. 10 years later, it was overwhelmingly Democrat.

29 posted on 09/30/2015 1:02:40 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Yashcheritsiy

meanwhile....is Trump still polling like 20% among African Americans? I haven’t seen an update on that in awhile, but if that holds....wow. there’s no way he can lose the general election i’d think!


30 posted on 09/30/2015 1:03:07 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats have taken advantage of the black vote. They could care less about Blacks.

However, Jeb shouldn’t use Blacks as a way to try and score political points either. He can talk about the welfare system as a whole, which is being abused by all races and needs to be overhauled. Remember, they keep saying that Blacks only represent “12%” of the population. Right?

Jeb would never have said that about Hispanics, who has become the “largest minority group,” they say, AND the largest benefactor of welfare system.


31 posted on 09/30/2015 1:03:34 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: Yashcheritsiy
All the same, I’m glad Yeb said it instead of Trump or Cruz.

And there it is. It is an ugly truth, that everyone gingerly avoids.

And yes, i'm glad it was Jeb spouting it instead of his usual Jebberish. If anyone needs to take some political hits, it is he.

32 posted on 09/30/2015 1:04:52 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jeb gets something right


33 posted on 09/30/2015 1:06:35 PM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

34 posted on 09/30/2015 1:09:24 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: Red Badger

And LBJ said I will have “them” voting democrap for the next 100 years.


35 posted on 09/30/2015 1:11:21 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree, it is demeaning; however it has been proven for over 40 years to be true by the Democrats.


36 posted on 09/30/2015 1:11:23 PM PDT by BillT (If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

-—Bush’s demonization of African Americans as a group-—

But it would be just fine if Jeb demonized whites as a group, or painted all Christians as bad for the actions of a few.

Interesting he could have praised Blacks as a group and the press would be saying ‘bravo!’

Incidentally, Mr. Bush was referring to how Democrats act and plan their politics with respect to blacks, as far as I can tell.


37 posted on 09/30/2015 1:11:26 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...hardest working and least rewarded...”
On what planet?


38 posted on 09/30/2015 1:12:09 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

However, Jeb shouldn’t use Blacks as a way to try and score political points either. “

Totally agree with that.

This is pathetic.

Jeb knows he’s seen as “not conservative” so he is resorting to idiocy to try to get “conservative points”. As if race baiting had anything to do with conservatism.

Basically Jeb is here playing into the hands of the leftist media’s stereotyping of conservatism. This is really harmful, and it’s wrong, and it’s pathetic, and Jeb should quite the race now.


39 posted on 09/30/2015 1:16:54 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude

“Jeb should quite the race now”
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Yes, he should! I can’t wait until that day comes.


40 posted on 09/30/2015 1:21:12 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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