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In America it seems there is a significant number of white voters who are comfortable with and even applaud and cheer politicians who express racist views whether in coded language or just blutnly as in Gingrich calling President Obama The Food Stamp president and erroneously arguing that black folk do not have a work ethic or that undocumented citizens are lazy or commit more crimes than other US citizens.
Democracy Now discusses issues of racism in the Republican Presidential Candidates debates and campaigns.
Leading up to the South Carolina primary, several Republican presidential candidates have been criticized for comments made over issues of race. This week Newt Gingrich defended his description of President Obama as "the food stamp president," while offering praise for President Andrew Jackson, the architect of the Indian Removal Act. We speak to South Carolina civil rights activist Kevin Alexander Gray and longtime political reporter Wayne Slater about how Republicans have adopted the long-held "Southern strategy" of race baiting in order to win over bigoted white voters. "Democrats come here to get their black ticket punched. Republicans come here to punch black people," Gray says

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  • This time in our history is scary, the GOP has become the KLAN, you never see Black people at the events the candidates are at, noone denounced the VDARE guy at CPAC, these candidates say blatant racist//anti-gay things, and suffer no consequences, but Obama attended a church where the Pastor was going off about racism in America, and had to come out publicly to denounce the guy, wtf?

  • They take newt serious since the party he comes from has used racism as a tool for close to fifty years.

  • do people seriously listen to this bigot?

  • @breakurleglikekurt so true, it's all a joke. Too bad the joke is on us, the American people.

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