The GOP's Racial Politics

From the subtle to the sickening, this Republican primary season has seen a normalizing of racist and racially-coded language. It was not so long ago that the chairman of the Republican National Committee apologized for his party's history of "trying to benefit politically from racial polarization," and told the NAACP, "I am here today as the Republican Chairman to tell you we were wrong." Such leadership cannot be found now.

Newt Gingrich may be the new master of race politics with his efforts to label Barack Obama the "food-stamp president" and his generous offer to lecture African-Americans at the NAACP on why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. We know that Mr. Gingrich's claims of being a "historian" for Freddie and Fannie are a strain, but would it be that hard for him to check the history of NAACP's leadership on developing and demanding groundbreaking job creation policies? (Or to note that more food stamp recipients are white than any other race or ethnicity?) But why would a historian let facts get in the way of historical racial prejudice?

ThinkProgress' Jeff Spross has compiled a recent history of the GOP's dehumanizing and divisive language that threatens to plague the primary process for weeks to come.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/201...

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[TheLonelyImmortal]

Racist Republicans have finally gotten the balls to come out and show their complete stupidity, trying to get the votes of the lowest scum in the United States.

[MichaelPAUSA]

The GOP are great at convincing Americans to vote against their own intrests. I give them credit for that much. Herman Gerbals would have loved Fox News, Conservative Radio & Rush Limbaugh (laughs). Convincing the poor White Trash they too might someday be RICH so they should vote against their own best intrests now & keep the false dream alive. F idiots lol. The top 1% love you MORONS like theirs no tommorow. "Stupid is as Stupid does" & "Life is like a Box of Chocolates" Typical Repub loon.

[Thugpoet711]

@0:42 Lmfao. How do you even conceive getting away with this lie? Smh.

[jjacksonjr31]

Republicans are not fit to run this country! fuckin disgusting and appalling!

[Glenny Co]

Pay for votes with food stamps! The Democratic way...

[Scotish223332]

I love how silly you folks are, especially your ignorance of the Democrat Party and race politics used commonly to herd in minority votes for democrats.

History my dear folks.

[Glenny Co]

The great racial uniter with a black girlfriend!

[Glenny Co]

Obama won the election by voter fraud and buying the poor vote with welfare and food stamps!

[TheGuerillapatriot]

did you even watch the video?

[TheGuerillapatriot]

Obama kept all of the security advisors that gave the Democrats and Bush the same info. The Democrats supported Bush on the "bulshit war" when show the evidence, Obama as a State Senator supported the wars. Obama kept the same people that Bush uses. Personal attacks aside why does Obama keep doing the same things Bush had?

[dashawnthl]

Bush caused thousands of ppl to die and lose their lives over a bullshit war while Obama's trying to clean up his sloppy shit. Don't take this personal, but you sir are a 100% fucking idiot!!

[TheGuerillapatriot]

Obama worse war criminal than Bush: /watch?v=tovOOJIj0kU