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Three years into the first term of America\u2019s first black President, racism is not only nowhere near over, it is a major feature of this year\u2019s 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\u2019s 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, \u201cI\u2019ll go to [the NAACP] convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.\u201d During campaigning for the Iowa Caucus Rick Santorum infamously told a group of journalists and voters, \u201cI don\u2019t want to make black people\u2019s lives better by giving them somebody else\u2019s money.\u201d 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 \u201curban\u201d to describe city areas with a significant population of people of color. Republicans, for their part, favor the term \u201cracial preference\u201d as a stand-in for affirmative action when opposing laws and policies that promote equality. The word Hilton dubbed the \u201cdirtiest of words\u201d in Washington, however, is the word \u201cracism\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
GUEST: Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and the publisher of Colorlines.com. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three years into the first term of America\u2019s first black President, racism is not only nowhere near over, it is a major feature of this year\u2019s 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}