GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum “singled out blacks” who rely on federal assistance during campaign speech in Iowa, saying I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.”
Rick Santorum "Singled Out Blacks" who Rely on Federal Assistance During Speech in Iowa in Veiled Racist Attack (Wikipedia)
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told an audience in Sioux City, Ia., over the holiday weekend, “Diversity creates conflict. If we celebrate diversity, we create conflict.” Um, really? Why am I not surprised that the same person who said Africa was a country, would make a veiled racist dig at blacks and Latinos? That’s a pretty odd and bold thing to say, especially when you are really nobody’s favorite except the social evangelicals. He said it in Iowa and it basically fell on deaf ears to all the Iowans who heard it. Yeah, doesn’t come as a surprise, since 2.9% of the population in Iowa is black and 5% Hispanic. In other words, the voters don’t care what he says about other races.
My late maternal grandmother always said, “as a man thinketh, so is he.” Yep, Rick Santorum’s comments gives us some insight into how he thinks and why he’s dangerous for most Americans:
“Having that strong foundation of the faith and family allows America to be in a position where we can be more free,” Santorum says. “We can be free because we are good decent moral people.”
For Santorum that means cutting government regulation. Making Americans less dependent on government aid. Fewer people getting food stamps, Medicaid and other forms of federal assistance — especially one group.
“I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money,” Santorum begins. “I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families.”
Santorum did not elaborate on why he singled out blacks who rely on federal assistance. The voters here didn’t seem to care. Source: NPR
Um, newsflash Rick Santorum, not every black American is on welfare and not gainfully employed. Here’s another news bulletin — the majority of the people in Iowa who are on welfare are white. I am black and no, I have never been on government assistance. In fact, I grew up in a home where my parents worked hard for everything penny they earned and all the great things they achieved came from that hard work. Not from the government. The problem is that Rick Santorum doesn’t really care about the poor as he claims. Well, I guess he cares less about blacks who are poor. He’s willing to throw them under a bus. I have long maintained that you don’t give a man a fish, but you teach him how to fish but at the same time, everyone should be viewed through the same lens. Not just blacks as he mentioned. There are lots of white people on welfare. Most people don’t want a government handout, they want to be gainfully employed to put food on the table. That’s not just white people, that includes many blacks and Latinos as well. It’s a sad commentary that Newt Gingrich and now Rick Santorum seem to equate federal assistance with black.
So, I am guessing it’s okay in Ron Paul’s view that private property rules the day and that the government laws that were put in place to fight Jim Crow and end segregation were a joke, right? Ron Paul said he wouldn’t sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Mitt Romney says he will veto the Dream Act and send home all illegal immigrants, even those who have been in this country for decades, paying taxes and have not broken the law. I have one thing to tell my readers, please take a good look at the candidates vying for the Republican nomination. The only candidate that has not said anything derogatory to blacks and being divisive is Jon Huntsman, but he is the one that can’t manage to to rise from a third tier candidate. Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are dangerous for America and certainly dangerous for diversity as we know it. Mitt Romney flip-flops far too much for us to even take a position on where he really stands on the issues. Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich are divisive and are literally driving the Hispanics into the arms of the Democratic Party.
H/T: Washington Monthly
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