Jeb Bush: Dems give Blacks Free Stuff

[Jimmy Higgins]

The problem is what he said. It isn't racist, it is ignorant. It implies he hasn't a clue about the working hours blacks actually have, when getting this "free stuff". It is once again a Republican saying 'We need to teach blacks that they can work.' I think Romney said something similar.

Black folk know we can work. Black folk know how to work. Black folk are working right now. Most of us are not getting paid enough for what we do, not getting respect for what we do from either clients or management, and not even being credited for working at all.

Which is the problem with Jeb's statement. It has been made before by Republicans. The whole, "If we can only teach the black man the value of a dollar..." A Republicans attempting to sound compassionate is often an uncomfortable experience.

 

[fromderinside]

Building a democratic party landslide.

Republicans repudiate Hispanics [check]

Republicans repudiate Blacks [check]

Republicans repudiate young [check]

Republicans repudiate women [check]

Republicans replace secular law with religious law [check]

Republicans prefer Authoritarianism to democracy [check]

Republicans book ships to Liberia ...... waiting

 

[maxparrish]

This is yet another example of why it is harmful to rely on government programs to supplement and to subsidize low wages. They can always be attacked as gifts to the poor. That the government is paying them because they aren't worth much. It is much better to push their wages up by reversing the policies that we used to push up profits and the incomes of the already rich.

You expect them to work? Outrageous.

 

[dismal]

This is yet another example of why it is harmful to rely on government programs to supplement and to subsidize low wages. They can always be attacked as gifts to the poor. That the government is paying them because they aren't worth much. It is much better to push their wages up by reversing the policies that we used to push up profits and the incomes of the already rich.

The cynic in me says that is why we have the programs with have with regards to the poor. So that people will hate poor people and ignore poverty.

I thought the Democrats were open and proud about wanting to give people free stuff.

 

[fromderinside]

I thought the Democrats were open and proud about wanting to give people free stuff.

... spoken like a true Tea Party member just after a toke.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Building a democratic party landslide.

Republicans repudiate Hispanics [check]

Republicans repudiate Blacks [check]

Republicans repudiate young [check]

Republicans repudiate women [check]

Republicans replace secular law with religious law [check]

Republicans prefer Authoritarianism to democracy [check]

Republicans book ships to Liberia ...... waiting

Like Republicans would even know what that meant.

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This is yet another example of why it is harmful to rely on government programs to supplement and to subsidize low wages. They can always be attacked as gifts to the poor. That the government is paying them because they aren't worth much. It is much better to push their wages up by reversing the policies that we used to push up profits and the incomes of the already rich.

You expect them to work? Outrageous.

Aren't they already working? Unemployment is higher among blacks. It isn't however, equal with the employment rate for whites.

 

[SimpleDon]

I often hear people say that racism isn't the problem in the United State, classism is. We should focus on fixing classism and racism will go away when classism does.

Well, in order to focus on classism, we first have to see it.

And quite frankly, we don't.

Classism hides itself under various cloaks of invisibility, such as racism, sexism, hetero-normalization, ableism, and all the other practiced supremacies inherent to the social, economic, and political systems of the country.

Attack and eradicate these systemic structures of supremacy and privilege, and the sin of class will be visible to all, and machinations of the privileged few will be seen for the evil that they are.

But first, we have to see.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." ~
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, 1960, remark to Bill Moyers, "What a Real President Was Like," Washington Post, 13 November 1988

This is what racism has always been, producing an underclass that everyone can look at and feel that they are superior to, even if there is no basis for it.

I don't know if it works with Derec and dismal for example. If they recognize that it isn't race that works against them or sexism, but class. That the rich have gotten much more in the past by virtue of conservatives' votes and the rich want even more from the government in the future that that only the votes of conservatives can allow them to have.

Every Republican presidential candidate except for Trump has promised a tax cut for the wealthy. Every Republican candidate for president have promised to reduce the regulations on Wall Street that were, for the most part, re-imposed after the disastrous deregulation delusion of 2008. Pretty much the same regulations that were imposed after the Reagan deregulation delusion that resulted in the savings and loan disaster of 1986. Regulations originally imposed on Wall Street after the Great Depression and the 1929 stock market crash and the runs on the banks that followed.

 

[laughing dog]

Playing on racist stereotypes is a form of racism. Which is exactly what Jeb was doing.

He doesn't really have choice. he is courting the GOP base and soundbites like this work with that base of voters.

Well, it demonstrates at least one character flaw in Jeb Bush. Either he believes what he said which makes him a racist or he lacks integrity if he feels he has to use racist dog whistles in order to pander.

 

[laughing dog]

No, there isn't. There is just bogus racial outrage like with "niggardly", "master/slave" or "black hole".

There is also nothing racist about pointing out the racial identity politics that Democrats have embraced.

The problem is what he said. It isn't racist, it is ignorant. It implies he hasn't a clue about the working hours blacks actually have, when getting this "free stuff". It is once again a Republican saying 'We need to teach blacks that they can work.' I think Romney said something similar.

What "free stuff" do you think Jeb was alluding to?

 

[Derec]

I don't know if it works with Derec and dismal for example. If they recognize that it isn't race that works against them or sexism, but class.

Nonsense. I believe there should be same rules for everybody, regardless of race or gender. Democrats have, for the last few decades, been champions of identity politics where membership to a favored group conveys certain privileges. You may not like to admit it, but there are a number of blacks who believe that they deserve free money because they are black. Just look at the video from the Bill Maher show I posted above.

 

[Derec]

What "free stuff" do you think Jeb was alluding to?

Well blacks are more likely to be on all kinds of public assistance. Also, there are Democrats like Congresman John Conyers and writer Te-Nahitsi Coats who support overt reparations.

 

[Derec]

Even allowing for Derec's "reverse racism" or also called the Democrats' racial identity policies, that is, the policies intended to make up at least a small part of the disadvantage that the current generation of minorities and women suffer from because of centuries of prejudice.

I.e. you are in favor of discrimination against whites and men. As do Many Democrats.
Support for so called "reverse racism" (and "reverse sexism"), by the way, is antithetical to the ideas of equality of opportunity that used to be a liberal principle. Alas, no more.

 

[Ford]

Even allowing for Derec's "reverse racism" or also called the Democrats' racial identity policies, that is, the policies intended to make up at least a small part of the disadvantage that the current generation of minorities and women suffer from because of centuries of prejudice.

I.e. you are in favor of discrimination against whites and men. That is antithetical to the ideas of equality of opportunity that used to be a liberal principle. Alas, no more.

I was wondering how long it would take you to play the false persecution complex card. Pity the white man, because there's a liberal conspiracy to keep him down.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

If it is such a privileged thing to be black in america, why aren't there more white people doing it?

 

[laughing dog]

What "free stuff" do you think Jeb was alluding to?

Well blacks are more likely to be on all kinds of public assistance.

Are you sure about that? Last time I looked that was not true.

Also, there are Democrats like Congresman John Conyers and writer Te-Nahitsi Coats who support overt reparations.

Don't get hurt with those contortions of logic.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

What "free stuff" do you think Jeb was alluding to?

Well blacks are more likely to be on all kinds of public assistance. Also, there are Democrats like Congresman John Conyers and writer Te-Nahitsi Coats who support overt reparations.

Exactly what reparations have Rep. Conyers and Ta-Nehisi Coates asked for?

 

[Ford]

Well blacks are more likely to be on all kinds of public assistance. Also, there are Democrats like Congresman John Conyers and writer Te-Nahitsi Coats who support overt reparations.

Exactly what reparations have Rep. Conyers and Ta-Nehisi Coates asked for?

You know...the overt ones! Much different than the covert reparations.

 

[Derec]

Well blacks are more likely to be on all kinds of public assistance.

Are you sure about that? Last time I looked that was not true.

Where have you been looking? Let's take a brief look at food stamps for starters:

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

If it is such a privileged thing to be black in america, why aren't there more white people doing it?

Actually, when I was in high school, it was kind of a thing in middle class predominantly white populations, mainly middle schoolers.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Are you sure about that? Last time I looked that was not true.

Where have you been looking? Let's take a brief look at food stamps for starters:

I'm curious, how in the heck does graph three and four mesh? Does graph three include Kim Davis Democrats?