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GOP candidate tells story about confronting Black family at restaurant -- and prefaces it by saying 'my wife is Mexican'

PeacefulWarrior said:
For example, in the recent legislation for American Rescue Plan, here is relief provided for back farmers....but none for White farmers. Why?
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Reparations. Un-apologetically, reparations.
 

Do you have any evidence that Native Americans were favored in the one academic position she ticked the box for?
 
Antiwar said:
Do you have any ideas for why that might be the case, if accurate?
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Sure. They engage in irresponsible sexual activities without thinking and planning for birth control.
How on earth do you THINK it happens?
 

What? You said they say racist stuff.
 
Ug make hammer said:
Do you have any evidence that Native Americans were favored in the one academic position she ticked the box for?
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Harvard will never admit to it. So it’s hard to tell.
 
Antiwar said:
What? You said they say racist stuff.
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You dont think thats "racist"? They wrote the laws.
Do you think a White Congressional Caucus is a good idea? I do.

I'd go further...a European White Male Congressional Caucus. Yes or no?
 
PeacefulWarrior said:
Sure. They engage in irresponsible sexual activities without thinking and planning for birth control.
How on earth do you THINK it happens?
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Is there any historical context to consider when pointing at Black people for not having "correct" families?
 
Antiwar said:
Is there any historical context to consider when pointing at Black people for not having "correct" families?
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HUH? Is this about to get REALLY freaking stupid? It is...isnt it?
 
PeacefulWarrior said:
You dont think thats "racist"? They wrote the laws.
Do you think a White Congressional Caucus is a good idea? I do.

I'd go further...a European White Male Congressional Caucus. Yes or no?
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Post some of what you were talking about.
 
Antiwar said:
Is there any historical context to consider when pointing at Black people for not having "correct" families?
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Yes, The massive expansion of welfare under Lyndon Johnson’s great Society which disincentives marriage at lower income brackets.
 
PeacefulWarrior said:
You dont think thats "racist"? They wrote the laws.
Do you think a White Congressional Caucus is a good idea? I do.

I'd go further...a European White Male Congressional Caucus. Yes or no?
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Logically I have no problem with it. But politically it would be very stupid.

You should suggest it to the Republicans. Enough of them are set on doing what will most annoy Democrats, that they won't think twice about how it will annoy voters.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Yes, The massive expansion of welfare under Lyndon Johnson’s great Society which disincentives marriage at lower income brackets.
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So it's not only Black families that don't have "correct" families.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Yes, The massive expansion of welfare under Lyndon Johnson’s great Society which disincentives marriage at lower income brackets.
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So it's all lower income brackets, not just black people, who have this "problem" with single parent families?

Unfortunately, there's no way to distinguish "before" families where the woman did whatever was necessary to keep a breadwinner in the home, from "after" families with high rates of female head-of-household. I expect they're BOTH bad for children, and probably the reason we never noticed is that the former is mainly bad for girls, while the latter is mainly bad for boys. And back then, we didn't care much about girls.
 
VySky said:
Would you have done the same for Press SEC Sarah Sanders when her family was harassed and run out of a Mexican eatery? Just as the racist Maxine Waters instructed?
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While I don't agree with such harrassment, she should've known her constant nonsense and lying to the people would upset a few. Maybe don't do that in position of trust and things will be better?
 
Ug make hammer said:
So it's all lower income brackets, not just black people, who have this "problem" with single parent families?
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In many ways yes. White working class people having trouble staying married to it seems.
Ug make hammer said:
Unfortunately, there's no way to distinguish "before" families where the woman did whatever was necessary to keep a breadwinner in the home, from "after" families with high rates of female head-of-household. I expect they're BOTH bad for children,
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In terms of life outcomes, that is certainly not true. Children are far better off living with both of their parents even if their parents are in a bad relationship, then just one of them.
Ug make hammer said:
and probably the reason we never noticed is that the former is mainly bad for girls,
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I don’t think so at all.
Ug make hammer said:
while the latter is mainly bad for boys. And back then, we didn't care much about girls.
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This is left-wing political history, which is simply not true. When you say we didn’t care about girls, what you really mean is you believe that women should be viewed in a manner equal with men in all ways. A philosophy which is led to women continuously getting less happy as the decades have gone by since the invention of the pill. We actually have sociological data that shows women are less happy now than in the 1970s American malaise.
 
Antiwar said:
So it's not only Black families that don't have "correct" families.
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Of course not, however, it is most prevalent among black Americans. Nearly all of the current pathologies affecting the black community, would disappear if the marriage rate was like 75%.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Of course not, however, it is most prevalent among black Americans. Nearly all of the current pathologies affecting the black community, would disappear if the marriage rate was like 75%.
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What's the root cause of "incorrect" Black families?
 
slavablueberryjam said:
Honestly, how did the GOP openly embrace racism? It is such idiocy. But then again, they are the 'master' race with their beer bellies and incest. This nation needs a cull.
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After 1968, when a Republican won the White House by being less liberal than Humphrey, and less obviously racist than Wallace, they knew that dog whistles were the key.

Ronald Reagan’s 1976 campaign was not race based. It had its core in the rising evangelical movement, and the televangelists political emphasis.

But race baiting began to be whispered in 1980, when Reagan launched his campaign in Philadelphia Miss, the site of the brutal murder of Medgar Evers. It was a straight dog whistle to white supremacists. Reagan would go on to promote the welfare queen myth, a cherished racist trope.

By then, it was becoming more and more obvious that the GOP could not win national elections without racism. It was alway s core theme of right wing talk radio, and Fox.

Donald Trump brought it right out in the open, and the far right and the nation’s angry white mob loved him for it.

Just as they cheered at the top of their lungs when Ron DiSantis stole trump’s lowbrow crown two weeks ago.

The GOP is still dominated by banking, big oil, big pharma, and gun intersets that finance it, and the rat’s nest of right wing “think tanks”, policy shops, lobbyists and advocacy groups. They are the “men behind the curtain”./

And from behind that curtain they can wave their classic collection of bogey men; welfare moms, ANTIFA, mexicans (even if they aren’t from Mexico), the Chinese, George Soros (the current embodiment of the International Jew stereotype), and all the other stock characters. And don’t forget replacement theory.

This time last year, the GOP was putting together another tea party like fake “grass roots” campaign to flood school board meetings and get on TV, scaring the white people over critical race theory.
 
Cork said:
I'm not sure he's racist by those comments...

But I knows he's an idiot by bothering people with mask on if his story was true which I doubt.
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If you have to preface your remarks with proof of how not racist you are guess what?
 
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