This sort of inference doesn’t seem to work the same way for other types of comparisons, though. For instance, blacks and Hispanics have higher obesity rates than whites, but media narratives about obesity don’t present their subjects as overwhelmingly black or Hispanic.
For whatever reason, blacks are disproportionately associated in the media with welfare and crime much more than with certain other social phenomena that also disproportionately affect blacks.
Well they may be onto something with rap music, hip hop on the other hand seems to be more constructive.
Again, how is this a racist construct if the majority of welfare recipients are white? President Clinton signed the welfare reform act into law. He did this with public support. How is it a racist construct for Reagan to suggest it and not so for a Democratic President to enact it?
Why do we look at videos of carjacking and say “yep those black guys are cirminals” and then we look at guys like Bernie madoff and Frank mozillo, we don’t say “yep those rich white guys are criminals”? Bernie madoff and Frank mozillo might be particularly extreme examples but street crime seems to be more correlated to poverty than to race.
Sure it is. I’m not a fan of country music but country music doesn’t glorify violence or denigrate women nearly as much as rap.
Witness the almost routine “Here’s your religion of peace!”-type posts. How often does a crime by a person of Christian background result in a “There go those Christians again!” reaction from mainstream society?
Its not that they didn’t exist, its that they were about as relatively common among welfare recipients as folks who lost the family farm because of the estate tax among estate tax payers.
I don’t know if being a woman on welfare makes you a welfare queen.
The “religion of peace” posts are directed at violence that was specifically committed in the name of Allah which is a distinction to crimes committed by Muslims NOT done in the the name of Allah. The Christian equivalent would be someone killing an abortion doctor because of their beliefs. If there are more posts regarding Islamic acts of violence it’s because there are more Islamic acts of violence.
Tehre is definitely generational dependency on welfare and the majority of those are not black (they might be disproportionately black) but that was not the pitcure taht was painted.
oddly enough a lot of those folks don’t consider themselves parasties but the single black mom on welfare… she’s a parasite
Well not all republicans are racists but they are the ones that leave the light on for the racists.
I was suggesting why hispanics seem to vote republican despite the republican stance towards people with brown skin.
Being anti illegal immigrant is not racist.
It’s interesting that Democrats would continue to stereotype Republicans in this manner. The last time a Klan member tried to run in the GOP he was chased down the street with pitchforks and torches. That is in contrast to a still sitting Democrat who was a high ranking member in the Klan. I don’t know how much more “code” you can get running for office in the state of Virginia than someone who went over 14 hrs straight filibustering the civil rights act of 1964. When you look at the voting record for that vote it was overwhelmingly Republicans who voted it into law with an 82% Senate vote and 82% House vote versus a Democratic vote of 69% in the Senate and 63% in the house.
Why would you think they do? Some data fer ya. Over 2-1 for Obama in 2008.
Are you referring to David Duke? He was elected to the House, got over 43% of the vote in his Senate race, and 32% for Governor. Where do you see pitchforks?
Or do you mean Pat Buchanan, who’s won multiple primaries while preaching nativism along with isolationism?
Are you referring to Robert Byrd? A low-ranking member, who repudiated it and apologized long ago, like many young-idiot members who grew up. But you knew that, of course … right?
Just like you knew about GOP Senate Leader Trent Lott and the “Council of Conservative Citizens”, aka the Klan today. Or Strom Thurmond, for years the GOP’s Senate President Pro-Tem who carried several states running for President on a segregation platform. You knew about him, too, right? The list is long, need you be reminded?
Well, looks like you don’t even know the difference between Virginia and West Virginia, Nor are you aware of the great shift in attitudes, and party alignments, caused by that very act and by the GOP’s retaliatory Southern Strategy, as seen here:
You claim to be “interested”, but not interested enough to acquaint yourself with the relevant basic facts.
The Republican exploitation of the issue is patently racist, and is the 21st Century version of the Southern Strategy. “Illegal immigration” is code for Hispanics in general. It is not use by demagogues to refer to Canadians.
What? You haven’t even heard of any of the rallies demanding a militarized wall along the 49th parallel to keep out the damn snowbacks?
In 1964, the “left/right” identifications of the parties were the reverse of what they are now. Conservatives opposed the Civil Rights Act.