Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum's Pathetic 'White Minority' Race Card

[Flaylo]

Ben Cohen: Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum's Pathetic 'White Minority' Race Card

President Obama spoke eloquently about the killing of Trayvon, saying 'If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon'. Obama continued; 'I think [Trayvon's parents] are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."

Sadly, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have decided to play the pathetic 'White male minority' card used by Republicans to appeal to their base. Gingrich stated that Obama's comments were "disgraceful" and that "Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified, no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that, if it had been a white who'd been shot, that would be OK, because it wouldn't look like him? That's just nonsense."

Santorum chimed in stating that Obama should "Not use these types of horrible and tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America."

Obama of course, was doing nothing of the sort. The president was simply articulating what the African American community often feels -- that people who look just like them seem to get shot all the time. This isn't prejudging a situation or implying that white people aren't killed unjustifiably -- Obama was only showing empathy to parents of a dead child killed in extremely suspicious circumstances.


Politicians like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum like to pretend that racism doesn't exist in America, that the playing field is level and African Americans are poor or shot by the police because they deserve it. While study after study after study confirm that poverty and racism are structural and cyclical, rich white men often cannot, or do not want to understand that their society produces these phenomenon. Why? Because their society also produces people like them -- rich and untouchable. Perhaps if Gingrich or Santorum were unable to hail taxis due to their skin color, or targeted by the police for no other reason than their ethnic background, they might show some understanding when it comes to unarmed black teenagers shot for no apparent reason.


Instead, both politicians have decided to cash in on another delicate moment in U.S. racial history, coming down on the side of the powerful instead of the victims. According to Gingrich and Santorum, expressing sympathy for minorities is akin to racism -- a mind boggling leap of logic only possible in today's Republican party.

They miserably failed too, dumb Repugs

 

[Flaylo]

Sadly, that is the story of GOP party politics; it is dominated by those who ignore reality and focus on a world that does not exist -- one where there is no racism and no inequality. Republicans cannot address the real problems facing the average Americans because by and large, they are not average Americans.

And that is why when it comes to the killing of Trayvon Martin, Obama was right to express how troubled he was, and again, the leading Republicans were completely wrong.

Truth!

 

[tinydancer]

But you're a minority....
What part of that don't you get? It's sad....up here we rock. We have fun with each other. We love each other.

We have the best of times. We are friends. We work with each other. I hug a man called Terence from Jamaica. We love each other.

What the hell is wrong with you blacks down south? You are nasty. I don't even know how to describe you.

 

[tinydancer]

Ben Cohen: Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum's Pathetic 'White Minority' Race Card

President Obama spoke eloquently about the killing of Trayvon, saying 'If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon'. Obama continued; 'I think [Trayvon's parents] are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."

Sadly, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have decided to play the pathetic 'White male minority' card used by Republicans to appeal to their base. Gingrich stated that Obama's comments were "disgraceful" and that "Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified, no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that, if it had been a white who'd been shot, that would be OK, because it wouldn't look like him? That's just nonsense."

Santorum chimed in stating that Obama should "Not use these types of horrible and tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America."

Obama of course, was doing nothing of the sort. The president was simply articulating what the African American community often feels -- that people who look just like them seem to get shot all the time. This isn't prejudging a situation or implying that white people aren't killed unjustifiably -- Obama was only showing empathy to parents of a dead child killed in extremely suspicious circumstances.


Politicians like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum like to pretend that racism doesn't exist in America, that the playing field is level and African Americans are poor or shot by the police because they deserve it. While study after study after study confirm that poverty and racism are structural and cyclical, rich white men often cannot, or do not want to understand that their society produces these phenomenon. Why? Because their society also produces people like them -- rich and untouchable. Perhaps if Gingrich or Santorum were unable to hail taxis due to their skin color, or targeted by the police for no other reason than their ethnic background, they might show some understanding when it comes to unarmed black teenagers shot for no apparent reason.


Instead, both politicians have decided to cash in on another delicate moment in U.S. racial history, coming down on the side of the powerful instead of the victims. According to Gingrich and Santorum, expressing sympathy for minorities is akin to racism -- a mind boggling leap of logic only possible in today's Republican party.

They miserably failed too, dumb Repugs

You have to be a yankee.....

 

[Stephanie]

Ben Cohen: Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum's Pathetic 'White Minority' Race Card

President Obama spoke eloquently about the killing of Trayvon, saying 'If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon'. Obama continued; 'I think [Trayvon's parents] are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."

Sadly, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have decided to play the pathetic 'White male minority' card used by Republicans to appeal to their base. Gingrich stated that Obama's comments were "disgraceful" and that "Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified, no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that, if it had been a white who'd been shot, that would be OK, because it wouldn't look like him? That's just nonsense."

Santorum chimed in stating that Obama should "Not use these types of horrible and tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America."

Obama of course, was doing nothing of the sort. The president was simply articulating what the African American community often feels -- that people who look just like them seem to get shot all the time. This isn't prejudging a situation or implying that white people aren't killed unjustifiably -- Obama was only showing empathy to parents of a dead child killed in extremely suspicious circumstances.


Politicians like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum like to pretend that racism doesn't exist in America, that the playing field is level and African Americans are poor or shot by the police because they deserve it. While study after study after study confirm that poverty and racism are structural and cyclical, rich white men often cannot, or do not want to understand that their society produces these phenomenon. Why? Because their society also produces people like them -- rich and untouchable. Perhaps if Gingrich or Santorum were unable to hail taxis due to their skin color, or targeted by the police for no other reason than their ethnic background, they might show some understanding when it comes to unarmed black teenagers shot for no apparent reason.


Instead, both politicians have decided to cash in on another delicate moment in U.S. racial history, coming down on the side of the powerful instead of the victims. According to Gingrich and Santorum, expressing sympathy for minorities is akin to racism -- a mind boggling leap of logic only possible in today's Republican party.

They miserably failed too, dumb Repugs

What's pathetic is you spamming the board with Hufferpuffer post than act like it is you thinking this shit..
do you EVER think for yourself?

 

[Stephanie]

Ben Cohen: Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum's Pathetic 'White Minority' Race Card

President Obama spoke eloquently about the killing of Trayvon, saying 'If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon'. Obama continued; 'I think [Trayvon's parents] are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."

Sadly, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have decided to play the pathetic 'White male minority' card used by Republicans to appeal to their base. Gingrich stated that Obama's comments were "disgraceful" and that "Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified, no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that, if it had been a white who'd been shot, that would be OK, because it wouldn't look like him? That's just nonsense."

Santorum chimed in stating that Obama should "Not use these types of horrible and tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America."

Obama of course, was doing nothing of the sort. The president was simply articulating what the African American community often feels -- that people who look just like them seem to get shot all the time. This isn't prejudging a situation or implying that white people aren't killed unjustifiably -- Obama was only showing empathy to parents of a dead child killed in extremely suspicious circumstances.


Politicians like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum like to pretend that racism doesn't exist in America, that the playing field is level and African Americans are poor or shot by the police because they deserve it. While study after study after study confirm that poverty and racism are structural and cyclical, rich white men often cannot, or do not want to understand that their society produces these phenomenon. Why? Because their society also produces people like them -- rich and untouchable. Perhaps if Gingrich or Santorum were unable to hail taxis due to their skin color, or targeted by the police for no other reason than their ethnic background, they might show some understanding when it comes to unarmed black teenagers shot for no apparent reason.


Instead, both politicians have decided to cash in on another delicate moment in U.S. racial history, coming down on the side of the powerful instead of the victims. According to Gingrich and Santorum, expressing sympathy for minorities is akin to racism -- a mind boggling leap of logic only possible in today's Republican party.

They miserably failed too, dumb Repugs

What's PATHETIC is you spamming this board with Hufferpuffer crap..
What a Pathetic article dear, you should be embarrassed posting it.

 

[Old Rocks]

The GOP, Geriatric Old Parasites, have decided how to win in November. Alienate women, Latinos, Blacks, and anyone with a scientific background. Damn, what a plan.

 

[Avatar4321]

So you aren't even going to bother attempting to establish that the title of the thread is at all accurate, are you?

 

[Full-Auto]

The GOP, Geriatric Old Parasites, have decided how to win in November. Alienate women, Latinos, Blacks, and anyone with a scientific background. Damn, what a plan.

Another pathetic response from a person incapable of thinking for himself.

 

[007]

So you aren't even going to bother attempting to establish that the title of the thread is at all accurate, are you?

His title is his whole point. He's a racist. Doesn't matter what he posts after that.

 

[Katzndogz]

In other words, as one other post pointed out. obama had a chance to be president and he chose to be black. I can't actually blame him for having racial loyalty. I expected him to have racial loyalty from day one, This means, though, that he could no more be a decent president of this country than David Duke could.

Were his poor widdle feelings hurt when the Court dismissed the charges against the Hutaree?

 

[Flaylo]

So you aren't even going to bother attempting to establish that the title of the thread is at all accurate, are you?

It is accurate, Gingrich's remarks were tailor made for whites not for all Americans.

 

[Flaylo]

In other words, as one other post pointed out. obama had a chance to be president and he chose to be black. I can't actually blame him for having racial loyalty. I expected him to have racial loyalty from day one, This means, though, that he could no more be a decent president of this country than David Duke could.

Were his poor widdle feelings hurt when the Court dismissed the charges against the Hutaree?

There was no racial loyalty, dumb ass.

 

[Claudette]

The death of this kid is a tragedy.

So what if he was black. Its still a tragedy.

People are killed everyday in this country and no one bats an eye. Just because this kid was black its a bigger tragedy than any other killing??

Not fucking hardly.

 

[Avatar4321]

So you aren't even going to bother attempting to establish that the title of the thread is at all accurate, are you?

It is accurate, Gingrich's remarks were tailor made for whites not for all Americans.

How exactly where Gingrich's remarks tailor made for anyone?

And how exactly is Santorum responsible for Gingrich's remarks?

 

[WillowTree]

The death of this kid is a tragedy.

So what if he was black. Its still a tragedy.

People are killed everyday in this country and no one bats an eye. Just because this kid was black its a bigger tragedy than any other killing??

Not fucking hardly.

You can bet your sweet bippy if another black kid had killed him we wouldn't have heard a damn thing about it. and obama wouldn't be butt hurt either.

 

[Polk]

It's really hard being white in America...

 

[WillowTree]

It's really hard being white in America...

poor thang!

 

[skookerasbil]

LMAO.....thats right.....Gingrich is out of his mind.....all this race baiting is universally loved by whites!!!!


HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.........the nutters on here have the political IQ of a small soap dish.

 

[Polk]

LMAO.....thats right.....Gingrich is out of his mind.....all this race baiting is universally loved by whites!!!!


HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.........the nutters on here have the political IQ of a small soap dish.

Universally? No. Racists love it though, because it makes them feel their racism is justified.