Georgia’s grand-wizard and Republican presidential hopeful, Newton Leroy Gingrich on Friday called Obama A “food stamp” president.
Addressing the Georgia Republican Party’s convention, Gingrich said the nation is at a crossroads and that the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama would lead to four more years of “radical left-wing values” that would drive the nation to ruin. The cockamamie shyster then labeled Obama “the most successful food stamp president in modern American history.” [READ MORE ]
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As Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 1990′s, Gingrich used government cash to enrich his district and lift it up to being one of the wealthiest in the country.
Gingrich represented large portions of Cobb County, Georgia, a mostly-white district and largely suburban — completely different from the crude stereotypes Gingrich and others used to blast the welfare state, which were generally portrayed as minority-heavy urban environments. [ READ MORE ]
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Leroy’s “Food Stamp” statement is a racist slur. “Red meat” tossed at the intolerant, racist Republican base.
Leroy conveniently chose to ignore the fact that the sharp rise in food-stamp reliance is a direct result of the economic mismanagement of the country by a white president — George Bush!
Joan Walsh of Salon examines the coded racism in Leroy’s statement on Obama.
Essentially, Gingrich is lamenting the decline of exclusive “white privilege.” — where whites can do anything including the ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, and most important to “deny” people of color, even when they are suffering (black unemployment rates are as high as 20% in certain parts of the country) as is the case at present.
To racist whites blacks are inferior (as in slavery) and are not equal citizens. They should shut up and make do with the little they have.
White people!…Be afraid!…Be very afraid of Black People!…Led by Obama, they are coming to take what’s rightfully yours!!
Gingrich is employing the Southern Strategy — a tactic Republicans have used since the sixties in which they cause irrational fear, smothered in a swamp of racism, hypocrisy and hyperbole in order to win rural white votes, especially the older, unsophisticated and often illiterate southerners.
The irony is that there are a lot more whites on welfare than blacks.
Writing for Time Magazine in 1991, Barbara Ehrenreich commented:
…..61% of the population receiving welfare, listed as “means-tested cash assistance” by the Census Bureau, is identified as white, while only 33% is identified as black. These numbers notwithstanding, the Republican version of “political correctness” has given us “welfare cheat” as a new term for African American since the early days of Ronald Reagan. Yet if the Lakers were 61% white and on a winning streak, would we be calling them a “black team”?
Gingrich calling Obama (a black president) a “Food Stamp” president is an attempt to cast whites as “deserving” — and are legitimately unable to pay their own way through no fault of their own, while blacks are labeled “undeserving” and are looking for government handouts to subsidize their “laziness.” [ READ MORE ]
Republicans have used and re-used this racist tactic in the last 50 years with much effectiveness — and con artist Gingrich is a master at using it to rouse the gullible racist gunk who inhabit the Republican party.
| In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the late-20th century Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism among Southern white voters and appealing to states’ rights. Though the “Solid South” had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold in the century following the American Civil War, many Southern Democrats were alienated from the party following the African American Civil Rights Movement, the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, and desegregation. READ MORE:
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