Newt Gingrich’s cynical play to racial prejudice | Tamara Winfrey Harris
Never mind most foodstamp recipients are poor whites, insulting myths about African Americans and welfare win GOP cheersIt is curious that in a climate when nearly 45 million Americans are in need of food stamps, unemployment stands at 8.5%, nearly 50 million people have no health insurance and tough economic times touch nearly all of the 99%, including an increasingly fragile middle class, the GOP would pin its 2012 electoral hopes on demonizing teachers and public workers and demeaning the economically strapped as lazy and shiftless. It is curioser still that the Republican base eats this rhetoric up with a spoon.
published date:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:01:00 GMT
Newt Gingrich’s cynical play to racial prejudice | Tamara Winfrey Harris
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Newt Gingrich’s cynical play to racial prejudice | Tamara Winfrey Harris
Never mind most foodstamp recipients are poor whites, insulting myths about African Americans and welfare win GOP cheersIt is curious that in a climate when nearly 45 million Americans are in need of food stamps, unemployment stands at 8.5%, nearly 50 million people have no health insurance and tough economic times touch nearly all of the 99%, including an increasingly fragile middle class, the GOP would pin its 2012 electoral hopes on demonizing teachers and public workers and demeaning the economically strapped as lazy and shiftless. It is curioser still that the Republican base eats this rhetoric up with a spoon.