OP-ED COLUMNIST
The G.O.P.’s ‘Black People’ Platform
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: January 6, 2012
That didn’t take long.
Damon Winter/The New York Times
Charles M. Blow
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As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage.
You just have to love (and despise) this kind of predictability.
On Sunday, Rick “The Rooster” Santorum, campaigning in Iowa, said what sounded like “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.” At first, he offered a nondenial that suggested that the comment might have been out of context. Now he’s saying that he didn’t say “black people” at all but that he “started to say a word” and then “sort of mumbled it and changed my thought.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/opinion/blow-the-gops-black-people-platform.html
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