Oh boy! Newt Gingrich causes controversy once again on the campaign trail with some controversial comments about food stamps after saying President Obama is the “greatest food stamp president” in history. Read the response from the NAACP and Newt’s reaction to their reaction after the jump.
“It is a shame that the former speaker feels that these types of inaccurate, divisive statements are in any way helpful to our country. The majority of people using food stamps are not African-American, and most people using food stamps have a job.” – NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous
“I think you would have to be nuts to read those two paragraphs to conclude anything except that I was saying that every young American deserves the right to pursue happiness, every young American deserves the right to get a job.” – Newt Gingrich
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When you don’t actually matter you can say what ever you want. To Newt, I’ll always be black, but you’ll never be president.
Classic.
swish.
Props to Fuckyocouch
Fuck Newt!!! Muthafuckas act like president Obama invented food stamps himself. He is the President not God nor amiracle worker. I hate how people blame everything on him or expect him to fix everything…how come no one ever held dumb ass george bush to those standards?!?!?
Republican Playbook
1. Profess you’re born again Christian
2. Profess you’re against Abortion
3. Backhand Blacks, then get the House N****s to come to your defense
4. Profess your love for the “efficient and rationale” market
5. Profess your love for tax cuts for the wealthy
Santorum + Newt = open season on shitting on black people.
Don’t forget the biggest one. Profess your love of Reagan as if he was the greatest president we’ve seen.
niggas…smh.. cant you guys read what he said?
he isn’t being racist in anyway.
our over sensitivity has made us blind
How is what he said not racist? His efforts to try and be helpful about the economic down turn of this country and the lack luster future of young people in this country keep stemming and circling back to negative stereotypes about black people.
Black people being hooked on welfare is an ugly untrue stereotype this he and others like to hearken to as the root of so may problems. As the NAACP said, we aren’t even the majority of people on food stamps but he mentions us. He says that our black president and being some welfare king.
He rests on a stereotype that I truly think he believes. That is what is racist. You don’t have to have hate to hold racist ideals.
Kev,
play stupid, stay stupid, stay in the blind
this was a shot, doesnt take a Perry-Harris Princeton Professor to dissect this.
You’re able to read! Congrats!!, but did u actually watch the video dumbass!!?!???
You typically read what is written and listen to what is said.
I can see what he’s saying but I don’t think it’s food stamps that we need to be focused on paychecks only come from jobs. That’s like saying we need to eat but there’s no more animals. Another thing is I commend him for being so bold even tho I don’t think he should be using Obama as a escape goat when this country owes blacks so much and a few stamps for a presidency term is nothing when they spend billions on other countries raping them of there wealth and independence. If your gonna be bold be real. But on the real we need entrepreneurs not employees filing papers and taking a million smoke brakes in this country.
Everybody is dependant on a check from Uncle Sam and they know that’s the problem make your on check Buy and Sale is the secret of the wealthy or Rather all the big colleges who’s parents put up equity loans together and have the smartest kids on campus invest the schools families money to create wealth. That’s the republicans hustle. Money orgies
now i didnt read the bull this dude said but there is a point in the statement from the headline……there are too many of us that would rather be dumbfounded and live off the government than actually go out and strive for a better life for our people…like chicks getting pregnant to stay on at ish…..smh w/e else he said fuck em
Hi everyone, Jewish guy here, with a few words about this.
When it’s so easy to get offended by a politician because he happened to single out black people as an example, one probably should take a step back and ask him or herself why they let this person have so much control? If you will react so predictably to mere words, you can be controlled very easily. It’s time for Americans, and black people especially, to free themselves from this kind of slavery.
Did Newt Gingrich utter a racist remark or not? Let’s be honest. Yes he did. The problem is that in his example he used a stereotype that whites have about blacks: they’re poor and on welfare. We all know this is ignorant thinking and stupid for a politician in the middle of a campaign to say.
Now, I imagine if he would have used my people as an example and said, “I don’t want Jews to have to be stingy with their money, I want them to make enough so they don’t have to be” I wouldn’t really be too upset. This man has no control over my thinking.
What black people ought to do is exactly what poster “Biz” stated. BTW, this isn’t a problem for just black people, it effects anyone who’s poor or middle class. We need people with good ideas to put them to work. Don’t get a business loan from a bank, communities could work together and pool money to create there own businesses or seek a grant. “We the people” have the power to change our own lives and we don’t need any politicians giving us permission. You already have the power to make yourself great. The opportunity isn’t there? You can create it.
Do you really want to get a job working for someone else’s prosperity? Black people need to start running businesses that they create, not just climbing white corporate ladders, paying white-run colleges for degrees, or working at low paying jobs. I know I’ve said alot that might upset black people and if I’ve offended you, I apologize but you need to grow up and look at reality. Those in power want you to stay in a position of weakness and that isn’t right. Shalom.
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