“The notion that Gingrich is somehow unaware of that “food stamp president” has racial connotations, that he is being on the level when he says the black community should not be satisfied with food stamps, requires an extension of supernatural generosity.”
This is pure BS. This follows the line of “thinking” that a guy who learned “eenie-meenie-minie-moe” with “tiger” as the operative term instead of the “n-word” is somehow naive of the “racial connotations”.
It is the same line of “thinking” that the statement “reneged on the deal” has racial connotations.
In fact, the argument is specious and very weak at best. In reality, it’s a non-valid point. Newt most likely DOES know that there are more white people on welfare than black. His point was never intended as a racial slight and only the left wants to take it that way, to use as such and to try to bend the argument that “See? Republicans hate black people!”
I have worked with blacks all my life and there are those who will find racism in everything, every sentence, everything a white person does. Then there are those who just don’t have time for it. They are mature, thinking people who know what it used to be like and that it’s no longer that way and some of them have actually confronted the ones who spend their time looking for it that they are a problem.
When a person is perpetually angry, which is a very powerful emotion, they will find ways to justify that anger. Because it is a very personal and core emotion, it takes control if the owner of said anger lets it. Few are able to actually rise above it and respond rationally. It used to be a trait revered by men but in more recent years, the petulant child-like behavior gets more media attention, especially if it’s a conservative who’s just plain had it. But it’s a given for liberals and national socialists who, like the brownshirts of 1930′s Germany, feel their anger is more justified than anyone else’s. Since the media and the national socialists are one and the same, they get a pass for bad behavior.
