The GOP’s self-defeating image of minorities as ‘takers’
I’m seeing and hearing a lot of this kind of thing, on this blog and elsewhere, as Republicans attempt to come to grips with Tuesday’s election defeat and try to seek explanations for why they lost.
For those unable to watch video, here’s what O’Reilly had to say on Election Night, as it was becoming apparent that it would be a bad night for Republicans:
“The white establishment is now the minority. And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama’s way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?”
In one sense, you can understand why that kind of rationalization would be appealing. In effect, O’Reilly is telling his listeners that “We lost by being better than they are. It’s not our fault and there’s nothing we can or should change.” He applies the powerful salve of moral superiority to a open wound, and by doing so he makes people feel better. People like to feel better, so they’ll come back to Fox for more.
But O’Reilly’s wrong. He’s wrong as a matter of politics, he’s wrong as a matter of morality, and he’s wrong as a matter of history. His listeners are equally wrong to believe him. To the degree that they continue to do so, they are likely to experience more tough election nights in the years to come.
Think about it. While older white voters might find O’Reilly’s message reassuring, imagine that you’re black (93 percent for Obama), or Latino-American (71 percent for Obama), or Asian-American (73 percent for Obama). Imagine that you’re flipping through the news coverage on Election Night and you hear O’Reilly make those comments. How do they come across?
They come across as condescending and even racist, because they ARE condescending and racist. The comments equate the fading “white establishment” with all that is good and great in this country, while the rising minority tide is treated as “takers,” as leeches.
It’s not a complicated thing. Hearing that kind of argument, the natural reaction of almost any non-white listener will be to reject the political party from which such sentiments are emanating, regardless of what other affinities you might have with it. Because you and your parents and your cousins and your friends are being insulted.
But is O’Reilly’s formulation nonetheless accurate? Not even close.
To use his term, it was “the white establishment” that created Social Security, and it did so largely for white people, because that’s who dominated this country at the time. It was the white establishment that created Medicare, and it did so largely for white people, because again, that’s who dominated the country at that time. More recently, the white establishment, in the form of President George W. Bush and a Republican Congress, created Medicare Part D.
Who’s on Medicaid, the government-financed health care program that Romney/Ryan proposed to slash? Among the non-elderly, some 43 percent are white, 22 percent are black and 28 percent are Latino. And who’s on food stamps? According to the Census Bureau, 59 percent are white.
And if you really want to get down to it, we can do so.
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan campaigns at The Villages retirement community in Florida, promising to protect "free stuff" for senior citizens.
When Paul Ryan campaigned in the massive Villages retirement community in central Florida this year, promising to restore the $716 billion in “free stuff” that Obama had cut from Medicare, he wasn’t pitching those remarks to retired black school-bus drivers. He was pitching them to white Americans over 65, 61 percent of whom ended up voting for the Romney/Ryan ticket.
Because let’s be blunt. No demographic group in the country gets more “free stuff” from the government than its senior citizens. In fact, seniors make up roughly half of that infamous “47 percent” who pay no federal income taxes. And a lot of them sat there Tuesday night, watching on Fox and shaking their heads in agreement with O’Reilly.
One final point:
The 2012 exit polls offer further evidence to rebut the notion that Obama’s coalition is motivated largely by the demand for “free stuff.”
For example:
– The 65 percent of Americans who believe that illegal immigrants ought to be given a chance to become U.S. citizens voted for Obama by a 24-point margin. These are people drawn to this country by the opportunity to work to make things better for themselves and their children, and the Obama coalition respects them for it.
– The 49 percent of Americans who believe that gay marriage should be legal voted for Obama by a 48-point margin. (The 46 percent who believe it should be banned voted for Romney by a similar margin.) Younger Americans in particular define that as a basic civil right, and voters in four states confirmed that belief Tuesday.
– The 59 percent of Americans who believe that abortion ought to be legal — that such an issue is up to the individual, rather than government bureaucrats — voted for Obama by a 36-point margin.
That’s not “free stuff.” That’s freedom and opportunity, even if the definitions of freedom and opportunity might differ from those of earlier generations of Americans. That’s how it ought to be. Every generation in this country has re-interpreted the American dream in its own way, and nothing is going to stop that process.
– Jay Bookman
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Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:06 pm
J. Reb — “My biggest question is, what am I going to do with all these crying towels I had lined up for you guys?”
Give them to your ideological compatriots.
getalife
November 8th, 2012
2:08 pm
I watched fox turn on rove.
That was fun
gop civil war is highly entertaining.
Hope it is a long one and they disband.
moonbat betty
November 8th, 2012
2:09 pm
Bender said it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN64ta25VBA
Brosephus™
November 8th, 2012
2:10 pm
Stevie Ray
Gotcha. I’d say your beef is sorely misplaced, but you’re entitled to your beliefs, and I’m not gonna try to change them.
pete
November 8th, 2012
2:10 pm
Hey JohnnyReb-
Send them to all those folks who lost their jobs yesterday.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:11 pm
M. Betty — “Bender said it best:”
Yours is shiny and metal? Hope you’ve got a good dermatologist.
USMC
November 8th, 2012
2:12 pm
“I wonder how long USMC is gonna take to sober up and come back and post. Hell If I knew where he was on this bender I’d go join him. Drink a few, buy him a few, it don’t matter…………”–FRED
psst! psst!
Hey Fred, I’m over here still locked in the WOOD SHED!
Can you please slip the lock and let me outta here?
The moonshine has worn off, and I have a splitting headache!
T. Robert Black
November 8th, 2012
2:13 pm
Mrs. Ann Romney forced us all to subsidize her horse hobby, when she wrote off $72K as a medical deduction. And, Ryan and Romney proposed tax plan called for making virtually all of Romney’s income tax free, while limiting itemized tax deductions for the rest of us to a ridiculous $17K a year and continuing to tax 401K distributions as ordinary income. Talk about true wealth redistribution. No wonder the voters revolted!!! Those who shouted “Let them eat cake!” at the 47% can take the next 4 years to reflect on their ignorance, and why they underestimated the intelligence and education of the general public.
indigo
November 8th, 2012
2:13 pm
pete – “if this is the society you want, then you got it”
Delta is ready when you are.
Write when you get work.
Regnad Kcin
November 8th, 2012
2:14 pm
“My apologies, I missed the sarcasm. In defense it’s hard to tell when people are serious here or just plain crazy”
Completely understandable (though I’m not expicitly DENYING the “crazy” part…).
Brosephus™
November 8th, 2012
2:16 pm
can you imagine the material Romney would have provided? Both of us would be banging Kyle relentlessly…
I’d still be here. I post at Kyle’s infrequently, even though I read almost daily.
SteveA
November 8th, 2012
2:17 pm
You guy’s act like this was a landslide for Obama. Considering he won 10 states by less than 100,000 votes each it won’t take much to flip that the other way next time.
Brosephus™
November 8th, 2012
2:17 pm
USMC
If you think your week was bad this week, just wait until the SEC Championship week.
Regnad Kcin
November 8th, 2012
2:19 pm
” Considering he won 10 states by less than 100,000 votes each it won’t take much to flip that the other way next time.”
^^^true dat.
However, what are the republicans going to do differently NEXT time to flip all those votes?
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:20 pm
SteveA — “You guy’s act like this was a landslide for Obama. Considering he won 10 states by less than 100,000 votes each it won’t take much to flip that the other way next time.”
Careful what you wish for, Champ. Emphasis mine.
Americans Actually Voted for a Democratic House
Think Progress: “Although a small number of ballots remain to be counted, as of this writing, votes for a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives outweigh votes for Republican candidates… 53,952,240 votes were cast for a Democratic candidate for the House and only 53,402,643 were cast for a Republican — meaning that Democratic votes exceed Republican votes by more than half a million.”
moonbat betty
November 8th, 2012
2:20 pm
Go fix me turkey pot pie.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:21 pm
Woops. Linky for above quote.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/08/americans_actually_voted_for_a_democratic_house.html
USMC
November 8th, 2012
2:23 pm
“If you think your week was bad this week, just wait until the SEC Championship week.”–Brocephus
LOL!
I saw Bama’s weakness in the LSU game last weekend, and I think Bama might have their hands full this weekend with Texas A&M… We shall see.
I am still reeling enough from the election results to maintain the delirious notion of a completely UN-disciplined and NASTY Georgia Bulldog Defense/team UPSET the grand Bama Tide in the ATL for the SEC CG!
LSU has the right idea when playing Bama, they mix it up by playing loosely and throwing the STIFF Bama players off of their game. We shall see!
booger
November 8th, 2012
2:24 pm
regnad,
What you described was not a plan. Be happy with the status quo, and slowly maybe things will get better is the opposite of a plan. I spent my career in business, and I can just imagine coming to the table with a plan like that.
I do concede that times have changed. The age of high hopes and high expectations seems to be over for America. Instead we are progressing toward the European plans of the 1950’s and 60’s. The same plan which they are desperately trying to escape.
This is why I said it was sad.
Carlos
November 8th, 2012
2:24 pm
There is a reason why they are called the GOP. (Grand Old Party)
Krystal'sBalls
November 8th, 2012
2:24 pm
Limbaugh is pushing the idea that Republican party needs no outreach. Laughable. It will be a glorious day when this POS no longer has a platform.
JOE COOL........
November 8th, 2012
2:24 pm
SteveA
November 8th, 2012
2:17 pm
Still whining I see…. Romney got close to 3 million LESS votes than McCain
moonbat betty
November 8th, 2012
2:26 pm
USMC:
The libs here really missed you yesterday!
Although they talk really bad about some of the right leaning posters here, I think deep down they really do LOVE them.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:26 pm
Booger — “What you described was not a plan. Be happy with the status quo, and slowly maybe things will get better is the opposite of a plan. I spent my career in business, and I can just imagine coming to the table with a plan like that.”
Did you ever come to the table with a plan that had deeply flawed math that was easily recognizable as such, as Romney and Ryan did? If so, how was that received?
pete
November 8th, 2012
2:26 pm
indigo,
I am disabled, I can’t work.
moonbat betty
November 8th, 2012
2:27 pm
Gosh, why do the libs here constantly parrot their hero Bill Maher?
Have some originality once in a while, haters.
getalife
November 8th, 2012
2:28 pm
Who will play Alabama for the Championship?
I think they will repeat.
That hurt to type.
USMC
November 8th, 2012
2:29 pm
“The libs here really missed you yesterday!
Although they talk really bad about some of the right leaning posters here, I think deep down they really do LOVE them.”–Moonbat Betty
Bless your heart Betty! I felt the same way.
It’s tough to be locked in the WOODSHED all by myself.
(Mitt, flew outta there on his Lear Jet right after the election)
Regnad Kcin
November 8th, 2012
2:30 pm
booger – I understand that the “plan’ is not uber-inspiring, or even much of a plan, as you state. Perhaps this analogy will help:
America is walking a tightrope over the abyss (you’re with me so far, I bet
). Before we do anything else, we have to get off the tightrope, right?
Then we tackle the deficits – rainbows & kittens ensue. Simple, really
Okay, what’s YOUR plan?
pete
November 8th, 2012
2:30 pm
getalife,
I would like to see Alabama play Oregon.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:31 pm
USMC — “(Mitt, flew outta there on his Lear Jet right after the election)”
Also known as Hair Force One.
They BOTH suck
November 8th, 2012
2:31 pm
Krystal’sBalls
Actually Limbaugh should always have his platform and his flock free to follow. He is just the sheep herder, but it takes sheep willing to follow. The market has spoken and he has plenty in his flock waiting on their daily direction.
Same can be said for Shultz and other liberal leaning commentators leading their flock around.
moonbat betty
November 8th, 2012
2:31 pm
“Who will play Alabama for the Championship?”
I would love to see Alabama put a huge beat down on Notre Dame.
SteveA
November 8th, 2012
2:33 pm
JOE COOL……..
Not whining at all….Just pointing out how close it really was and that it won’t take much of an effort to swing it the other way.
They BOTH suck
November 8th, 2012
2:33 pm
“Mitt, flew outta there on his Lear Jet right after the election”
He was spotted at a road side diner outside of Des Moines yesterday. Overhead saying there was no better time and place to start his 2016 campaign.
“The continual quest continues: Romney 2016″
moonbat betty
November 8th, 2012
2:34 pm
USMC:
If you hurry down to Chik-Fil-A you can still get a free spicy crow sandwich!
They are really tasty!
USMC
November 8th, 2012
2:35 pm
“Also known as Hair Force One.”–Joe
Joe, you need to go ahead and call the Laugh Factory and get a gig, you’re funny, seriously.
I still like the one you threw down on some poor soul when they called you a tool and you replied with something about Home Depot…..
pete
November 8th, 2012
2:35 pm
No,no,no…not Notre Dame. I want to see Oregon. Oregon has the offense to match up with Alabama defense pretty good.
getalife
November 8th, 2012
2:35 pm
“I would like to see Alabama play Oregon.”
I would like to see Oregon play Kansas State in a playoff.
Notre Dame against another defeated team in a playoff
Get the best undefeated team to play Alabama.
JOE COOL........
November 8th, 2012
2:36 pm
SteveA
November 8th, 2012
2:33 pm
Understand this… the GOP is treading DOWNWARD every election, not UPWARD sport.
moonbat betty
November 8th, 2012
2:36 pm
SteveA, you’d be better off to kiss their behinds for a couple more days.
They don’t take to winning very easily.
Brosephus™
November 8th, 2012
2:36 pm
USMC
I had 911 dialed on my cellphone and almost had to hit the call button near the end of that game. We’ll be better prepared for Texas A&M this weekend.
USMC
November 8th, 2012
2:36 pm
“If you hurry down to Chik-Fil-A you can still get a free spicy crow sandwich!”–Betty
I am about to GROW wings from eating so much crow these last couple of days. But if Chik-fil-a is making it, I bets it’s pretty good!
St Simons - he-ne-ha
November 8th, 2012
2:38 pm
THE ONE HOUSE THEY COULDN’T BUY –
[picture of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave]
best damn ad EVAH
Doggone/GA
November 8th, 2012
2:38 pm
“Mrs. Ann Romney forced us all to subsidize her horse hobby, when she wrote off $72K as a medical deduction”
If I remember correctly…it didn’t work. It was rejected.
SwamiDave
November 8th, 2012
2:38 pm
Having seen the segment with O’Reilly, I disagreed with him in interpretation:
““
The white establishment isBased on the distribution of taxes paid, taxpayers (especially at the at higher ends) are now the minority. And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff.You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama’s way. People in growing numbers across racial & gender lines feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?””Focusing on the racial or gender aspects of the percentages ignore that the same attitudes exist among many in “White America”. It is easy to point to those demographics when the scale weighs 12-to-1 or 7-to-3, but it fails to resolve the question at the core of those percentages.
Why is it that growing numbers of Americans among those demographics are willing to settle for bureaucrats & politicians doing for them what they can do better for themselves? How is it that they are so divorced from the individual achievement that built the country that they do not see if for themselves or their children?
Specific to the segments that Jay highlighted from more social issues (abortion, gay marriage, etc), the percentages that you highlight only equate to a 2-to-1 advantage among a portion of the electorate. That presents a challenge, but one that a candidate can overcome. The danger (in my opinion) is the growing segment of the electorate who motivation is not issue-driven, but an outgrowth of the entitlement mentality.
The risk (which O’Reilly is correctly highlighting even if he incorrectly labelled it) being that the elections have and are becoming more about confiscating and redistribution to population segments as a means to gain or hold power. In this case, the issues and principles have little bearing to those who become “election mercenaries”. It truly leads to more cases of Americans whose “job” is voting.
-SD
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:38 pm
USMC — “when they called you a tool and you replied with something about Home Depot….. ”
That was either Fishy or RB who called me a tool. I said that if I was a tool, then they were an entire Home Depot, all by themselves.
USMC
November 8th, 2012
2:39 pm
“Who will play Alabama for the Championship?”
That’s over a year away. We still have to see who the Georgia Bulldogs are going to play THIS year after they KNOCK-off Alabama in the SEC CG!
(Okay I admit, I still a little punch-drunk from the Shellacking we took Tuesday night!)
pete
November 8th, 2012
2:41 pm
getalife,
I think the playoff starts next year. This would have been a good year for it. I like both Alabama and Oregon, not real sure about Kansas State, and we will see how good Notre Dame is when the play Southern Cal at the end of the year.
Doggone/GA
November 8th, 2012
2:41 pm
“He is just the sheep herder, but it takes sheep willing to follow”
Here’s an interesting fact for you to ponder: herders FOLLOW their flocks, they don’t lead them
Union
November 8th, 2012
2:42 pm
odd.. the whole campaign from obama was all about someone having more than someone else and how it was not fair.. so he was gonna make it right..
USMC
November 8th, 2012
2:42 pm
“I had 911 dialed on my cellphone and almost had to hit the call button near the end of that game. We’ll be better prepared for Texas A&M this weekend.”–Bro
I know. I was sitting in disbelief watching LSU winning the game. I hope the Tide wakes the F’ up and spanks A&M. Fred’s Talkmaster Idol went to A&M.
USMC
November 8th, 2012
2:43 pm
“That was either Fishy or RB who called me a tool. I said that if I was a tool, then they were an entire Home Depot, all by themselves.’–joe
Yeah Joe, that’s the one! I think it’s your delivery!
(as though we can hear you deliver the joke!)
AmericaShrugged
November 8th, 2012
2:45 pm
“Among the non-elderly, some 43 percent are white, 22 percent are black and 28 percent are Latino. And who’s on food stamps? According to the Census Bureau, 59 percent are white.”
Shame on you Jay. At a minimum this is intellectually dishonest. A more accurate statement would be non-whites participate in Medicaid and food stamp programs at significantly higher percentages than whites. Then you couild go on to explain how LBJ and his Democratic congress in 1965 destroyed the nuclear black family with the creation of Medicaid and Medicare and the expansion of AFDC while cleverly winning their loyalty at the polls.
Krystal'sBalls
November 8th, 2012
2:45 pm
Seriously…countdown to Limbaugh kicking the bucket. All of this cannot be healthy for such an obese guy with his temperament.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:47 pm
S. Dave — “Why is it that growing numbers of Americans among those demographics are willing to settle for bureaucrats & politicians doing for them what they can do better for themselves? How is it that they are so divorced from the individual achievement that built the country that they do not see if for themselves or their children?”
I think you’re deluding yourself if you think that people like Sheldon Adelson didn’t contribute huge amounts towards Romney’s election without an expectation of ‘getting something.’
Thogwummpy
November 8th, 2012
2:49 pm
Gee, the drop out rates and unwed pregnancy stats are astronomical amongst minorities. How T.F. does this translate in Bookman’s mind as a community that is career oriented? Sorry, behavior counts; and until we as a nation have an HONEST discussion about attitudes that saturate these minority cultures (where work ethic is mocked and denounced)…those sectors will continue to put tragically huge swaths upon dependency program roles. It’s just an inescapable fact with the demographic skews. And generationally, as America veers into the culvert of socialism, it’s growing worse instead of better.
They BOTH suck
November 8th, 2012
2:49 pm
Doggone
My analogy was incorrect (thanks for the info), but my point is that Rush and others are willingly followed. Selling their followers what they want to hear.
I think he knows he is selling crap the vast majority of time, people follow and the advertisers pay. I’ve mentioned several times that I listen to some right wing talk radio. Some of it is actually funny, especially knowing that much of their core audience thinks they are getting the “news” as opposed to “opinion” package as the “news”.
I do not agree with 90% plus of what they are saying, but they should have that platform unlike the KBs indicated.
They are great salesmen. Same talking points just packaged in a new wrapping each day and it keeps flying off the shelf.
Thanks again for the sheep herder info. Will have to come up with a better analogy.
Brosephus™
November 8th, 2012
2:52 pm
““
The white establishment isBased on the distribution of taxes paid, taxpayers (especially at the at higher ends) are now the minority. And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff.**NSFW graphic
That is probably the funniest steaming pile of bullsh*t that has been posted here today. When you look at the distribution of taxes paid, the average taxes paid from income averages between 20% – and 30% of income across all income brackets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/09/total-tax-bill-income.jpg
Only those who believe the baloney about fed income taxes would believe that crap that was posted there. Anybody who has the common sense to educate themselves on tax amounts paid will see through that BS.
catlady
November 8th, 2012
2:52 pm
And, to quote Monty Python,”If you tell other people that…they won’t believe you!” as the Scottish industrialists sat around and one-upped each other about how poor and pitiful they were growing up.
Krystal'sBalls
November 8th, 2012
2:54 pm
@They Both
I can agree with you on principle, as I am no fan of a hard left loud mouth personality like Ed Schultz either. Here is the DISTINCT difference between the two though…
Ed Schultz reserve their vitriol primarily for the ESTABLISHMENT, that is the politicians, party leaders, power entities,and similar types to promote their cause.
Rush Limbaugh (also Neal Boortz by the way) primarily direct their vitriol at GROUPS OF PEOPLE, of course on the receiving end most often are Blacks, Mexicans, women, etc. That is what I find particularly repulsive.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
2:57 pm
Thogwummpy — “Sorry, behavior counts; and until we as a nation have an HONEST discussion about attitudes that saturate these minority cultures (where work ethic is mocked and denounced)…those sectors will continue to put tragically huge swaths upon dependency program roles.”
Unless and until you recognize that such behavior is less about race and more about a variety of social issues, all the lectures you’re salivating about giving out will be for naught.
Oh, and stop being so tight-butted about sex education and condom distribution in schools. If you want to fight teen pregnancy, then stop disarming teens.
Brosephus™
November 8th, 2012
2:57 pm
USMC
I didn’t lose faith, but I had almost given in to the idea that we would be a one loss team this year. It’s an almost improbable task to repeat back-to-back on it’s own. To do that by running the table in the SEC is probably almost statistically impossible.
————————–
At a minimum this is intellectually dishonest. A more accurate statement would be non-whites participate in Medicaid and food stamp programs at significantly higher percentages than whites.
And that is completely intellectually and fiscally dishonest there. Percentages don’t mean jack sh*t when it comes to the dollar amount of the budgets. Fed dollars for those programs are not budgeted out based on percentages of demographic groups. When you attempt to focus on percentages versus total numbers, you’ve already acknowledged defeat because the more fed money is spent on the larger numbered group, not the larger percentaged group.
Jefferson
November 8th, 2012
2:57 pm
Get someone to feel abused and you can talk them into anything, the FAUX News mo. Limbaugh is a pip.
Union
November 8th, 2012
3:00 pm
soo.. just curious.. it there going to be another 4 years of this cr@p or is obama going to kick out a plan so we can actually move forward and dont end up like greece?
know a plan is not important to most.. as noted by the way the election turned out..
SteveA
November 8th, 2012
3:00 pm
moonbat betty: Obviously Joe Cool…. has a bit of a problem with the little numbers I pointed out. Not much of a SPORT is he. Or is he always that condescending?
Obama won, now what?
November 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
You guys worry about the middle class! Making good financial decisions in life gives you the opportunity to make what you want plus running your own biz makes a difference. You won’t get ahead working in a cubical for some one. Take chances, get ahead!
They BOTH suck
November 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
KB
Thanks for the reply.
JOE COOL........
November 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
AmericaShrugged
November 8th, 2012
2:45 pm
Break your post down in numbers as far as monies, not percentages and get back to us.
Tundra Dude
November 8th, 2012
3:03 pm
Megyn asking Rove strait up if he was pulling figures out of his arse was a shining moment – one of many!
Darn, I missed that….too late now, I’d guess ??
willie lynch
November 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
White males don’t want to except the reality of white male privilege. This privilege is a consequence of numbers and not talent. White males believe since they were the founders of America that they have a special place in the pecking order of who, what, and where things are to be distributed throughout this country and even the world. Unfortunately things are changing and the shock of this reality has the white male running scared. It’s sad but this white male privilege will come to an end with this group trying to establish some apartheid type set up to keep power from the growing minority/majority thereby deepening the already strong divide between white males and the males of other minority groups. This end of white rule doesn’t mean the end of America it only means the end of white rule. If they were smart they would take a look at themselves and study their own psyche to find what it is that drives them seek dominance at the expense of others. Who knows maybe they’ve already done that and have come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter why only that it is.
The idea that the problems of America can be laid at the lap of minorities is further indication of the psychological analysis needed by a group that makes all the rules and then say’s the problems are the fault of those whom they rule.
The problems facing Black people in America are by design but it is no longer something that can be blamed on white America. It is what is. America can benefit a great deal from a full contribution of all races and that means equal opportunity for all which means an end to white male privilege. I just don’t think they can accept that.
JOE COOL........
November 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
SteveA
November 8th, 2012
3:00 pm
Again, the GOP base is treading DOWNWARD. Do you comprehend that?
Regnad Kcin
November 8th, 2012
3:05 pm
” You won’t get ahead working in a cubical for some one”
=================
You need to BLESS those people! Where would YOU be without the cubicle farm inhabitants?
Different people have different temperments, situations, lives. It doesn’t mean you are “better” than them, right?
Union
November 8th, 2012
3:06 pm
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/just-explain-it/why-social-security-running-money-just-explain-133731426.html
our president… ” Obama said. “Social Security is structurally sound. It’s going to have to be tweaked the way it was by Ronald Reagan and Speaker — Democratic Speaker Tip O’Neill. But it is — the basic structure is sound.”
tweaked.. got it..
JOE COOL........
November 8th, 2012
3:06 pm
Jeb Bush: GOP Can’t Be the ‘Old, White-Guy Party’
TOO LATE
Tundra Dude
November 8th, 2012
3:07 pm
“My biggest question is, what am I going to do with all these crying towels I had lined up for you guys?”
Save them for the Falcons playoff game,
after my Packers come down there and beat them again.
Jack
November 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Just a reminder to a previous blogger, the KKK membership consisted of Democrats. And the segregationists were all Democrats.
Obama won, now what?
November 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Willie Lynch?
You can’t be serious with that post! Those comments are disgraceful and racist! What does color ever need to be a point of reference. Please move past this reckless verbiage for the good of all!
emz
November 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
Good article. I overheard a white woman (college-educated and works in a rural, northeast Georgia school system) say that Obama won because people were given cell phones. (I’m also white and college-educated.) Don’t know what world these people are living in these days.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
He’s got 99 problems, but Mitt ain’t one.
http://thegrio.com/2012/07/11/obama-parody-ive-got-99-problems-but-mitt-aint-one/
Obama won, now what?
November 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
Regnad Kcin
November 8th, 2012
3:05 pm
Not better by a long shot, just wanted more for my family without dependence on anyone.
JOE COOL........
November 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
Jack
November 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Whats your point?
Mick
November 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
I listened to rush yeasterday and today a bit, he is off his rocker as usual but he knows how to chum the waters, so on and on he will go. He is mostly irrelevent and borderline comic but he definitely knows how to milk his ilk…
newkid
November 8th, 2012
3:13 pm
In the almost 40 hours since CNN forecasted an Obama victory the US air waves have been filled with all sorts of analyses of what Republicans did wrong and what the Republicans need to do in future to ensure the party does not become a relic in the face of 21st century national demographics. WHY? WHY? WHY?
Why should so much time so soon be spent by so many seeking to give advice to party faithful on how to preserve a political party so imbued with 19th century perspectives?
The nation of tomorrow will not be the nation of yesterday. We know not what it will become, but we do know that it is rapidly changing, will continue to change, and perhaps change significantly. Why not concern ourselves FAR, FAR more with how we change and what we become, and concern ourselves FAR, FAR less with prescriptions intended to bring those in the nation who are given to 19th century modes of thought into a 21st century reality? As the nation continues to evolve into its 21st century reality, the 19th century thinkers will either adapt or be lost. Let’s hope they adapt, but let’s not needlessly spend precious time and energy on the subject. The nation does not have that luxury of expending enormous time and energy attempting to pull 19th century operatives into the 21st century. Our children and grandchildren can’t affort us spending our time so foolishly. Enough already. Let’s move on.
The nation faces enormous challenges given how stagnant (relatively) it has been over the past almost 15 years, and given how rapidly some other nations on the planet have pushed forward in that same span of time. We must respect where we’ve been, but we cannot afford to coninuously ‘yearn for yesterday’ as the Beatles did in song. Yesterday is gone; it’s time to build tomorrow. If the Republican Party and others of 19th century persuasion are willing to pick up a shovel, welcome; if not, see ya.
Regnad Kcin
November 8th, 2012
3:14 pm
“Not better by a long shot, just wanted more for my family without dependence on anyone”
I don’t disagree…as the man said, it takes all kinds, and it sounds you’ve chosen the right one for you and yours – props for that.
USMC
November 8th, 2012
3:18 pm
“I listened to rush yeasterday and today a bit, he is off his rocker as usual but he knows how to chum the waters, so on and on he will go. He is mostly irrelevent and borderline comic but he definitely knows how to milk his ilk…”–MICK
I KNEW IT!
Mick, listens to RUSH LIMBAUGH…. There’s your sign…
Tundra Dude
November 8th, 2012
3:18 pm
Here’s an interesting fact for you to ponder: herders FOLLOW their flocks, they don’t lead them
Then what do the sheepdogs do…?
willie lynch
November 8th, 2012
3:18 pm
Obama won, now what?
November 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
Reckless verbiage? Reckless behaviors are what need to be addressed.
USMC
November 8th, 2012
3:22 pm
“Obama won, now what?”
Now we are all in for a ride on the USS Obama over the Fiscal cliff!
getalife
November 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
Milk his ilk indeed.
Make him pee in a cup daily.
Realist
November 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
Hey Mr. Black, please tell me how “we” subsidized the horse write-off? All that meant was that the Romneys gave less of their own money for redistributive purposes that particular year. So, assuming a 15% tax rate on a $76K write-off, the Romneys paid $11K less in taxes that year than they otherwise would have. In other words, instead of paying $1,951,000.00 in taxes in 2011, they “only” paid $1,940,000.00.
Indeed, that write-off didn’t cost “us” one cent BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER “OUR” MONEY TO BEGIN WITH. Libs like you think that all things–including money–are originally created and owned by the government. The truth is that the government doesn’t have one dime until it takes it away from someoen who earned it.
We have a system where some citizens contribue millions each year in taxes while others contribute $0, yet the Democrats still assert that the former aren’t paying their “fair share.” In what universe does such an asinine notion even pass the smell test? One in which the takers out-vote the producers, i.e., the current USA.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 8th, 2012
3:27 pm
Realist — “Libs like you think that all things–including money–are originally created and owned by the government.”
Okay, hotshot. Let’s see you print your own money and use some of it down at the Wal-Mart. And I want to be there, laughing and pointing, when the cops haul you away.
harvey
November 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
Fine, all the boats will sink together. We can all be grifters and then wonder where the golden goose went.
AmericaShrugged
November 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
Loks like us taxpayers are about to take a $26B hit for buying Michigan and Ohio for Obama’s re-election. I prefer to make campaign contributions vountarily rather than have them ripped from my pocket!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2012/11/08/obama-general-motors-shares-bailout/1692217/
Peadawg
November 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
“Now we are all in for a ride on the USS Obama over the Fiscal cliff!”
Hopefully Republicans and Democrats can work together in the House and Senate. With no bill to sign, what can Obama do?
Doggone/GA
November 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
“Now we are all in for a ride on the USS Obama over the Fiscal cliff”
Yep, thanks to those clowns in Congress who were unable to get on the compromise roller coaster
Oscar
November 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
Now we are all in for a ride on the USS Obama over the Fiscal cliff”
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Only if that’s where the majority of congress – read house – wants to go.
middle of the road
November 8th, 2012
3:30 pm
“P. J. O’Rourke pointed out once that Cubans will ride a leaky raft — made out of a door and milk jugs — 90 miles through shark-infested waters just to have a chance at getting a job making meals or turning down the bedclothes of wealthy Yanquis”
Of course, as soon as a Cuban steps foot on American soil, he/she is automatically legal. Mexicans are not. The difference lies (I guess) whether your poor economic conditions are due to Communism, or just to other reasons.
Oscar
November 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
Alabama won’t play anyone for the national championship. They will lose to the Bulldogs in the SEC play off game.
JOE COOL........
November 8th, 2012
3:31 pm
AmericaShrugged
November 8th, 2012
3:28 pm
Still waiting on you to break down your percentages in money.