Paul Ryan insists his ‘inarticulate’ comments about ‘inner city’ men were not about race
Paul Ryan insists his ?inarticulate? comments about ?inner city? men were not about race | The Raw Story
Paul Ryan attempted to walk back Wednesday’s comment in which described a “culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working, and just generations of men not even thinking about working and learning the value and culture of work.”
In a statement issued to ThinkProgress, Ryan insisted that his comment wasn’t “a thinly veiled racial attack,” as Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, characterized it.
“It is clear that I was inarticulate about the point I was trying to make,” Ryan said in the statement. “I was not implicating the culture of one community—but of society as a whole. We have allowed our society to isolate or quarantine the poor rather than integrate people into our communities. The predictable result has been multi-generational poverty and little opportunity. I also believe the government’s response has inadvertently created a poverty trap that builds barriers to work.”
Ryan told a blogger from Crew of 42 that his initial comments had “nothing to do whatsoever with race.”
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When Paul talks about the "culture" of the citizens in the "inner city" he didnt mean "culture" or "inner city". What he really meant was
everyone everywhere and just failed to "articulate" it correctly.
Good job GOP...Maybe you can win an election without blacks. Just stop defending shit like this and asking why you aren't an attractive option for blacks.
Typically when you talk down to people....studies have shown they don't really appreciate it