Jan 17 2012
GOP’s 2012 Election Season Rife With Racism
Three years into the first term of America’s first black President, racism is not only nowhere near over, it is a major feature of this year’s election. GOP candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are becoming increasingly caustic toward one another, but most have managed to make a common enemy of people of color. This year, so far at least, America’s greatest ills are not being blamed so much on immigrants or Muslims as on an imagined population of poor black Americans living comfortably on taxpayer dollars. At a town hall event days before the New Hampshire primary, Newt Gingrich told a group, “I’ll go to [the NAACP] convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.” During campaigning for the Iowa Caucus Rick Santorum infamously told a group of journalists and voters, “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” Shani O Hilton at Colorlines.com earlier this month highlighted findings from Capitol Words on the most uttered racial euphemisms in Washington. Far more Democrats than Republicans use the coded term “urban” to describe city areas with a significant population of people of color. Republicans, for their part, favor the term “racial preference” as a stand-in for affirmative action when opposing laws and policies that promote equality. The word Hilton dubbed the “dirtiest of words” in Washington, however, is the word “racism” itself, said by members of congress only 46 times last year. Meanwhile, the issue has become a hot topic of debate within left-leaning and progressive circles. The welcome mat some prominent progressives have put out for Ron Paul is forcing a debate on what racist expression looks like, and where fighting racial inequality sits on the totem pole of progressive politics.
GUEST: Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and the publisher of Colorlines.com.
3 Responses to “GOP’s 2012 Election Season Rife With Racism”
White people can never disprove they are “racist”,their very existence is seen as a? form? of “racism” by the so-called “anti-racists”.
They say all things White must become “diverse” or it is “racism”.
They say there should be no White? countries,no White communities,no White schools,no White sports,no White social gatherings etc,etc.
The anti-Whites give us Whites two choices:Accept White geNOcide or you are a “racist”.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.
No one says a country that is 100% Black needs more diversity. No one says a country that is 100% Asian needs more diversity. No one says a country that is 100% Oriental needs more diversity.
They are already 100% diverse.
All White countries and only White countries need to be more diverse. White countries only stop needing to be more diverse, when there are no White people left in them. It is GeNOcide
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.
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