Tommy can you read the chart??? 
African Americans: 22% participation | 12.2% of US population
If i read it correctly that means slightly more then 1 out of 5 people on food stamps is African American.  While slightly more then 1 out of 3 Whites are on food stamps. 
Whites: 35% participation | 63.7% of US population

However whites make about 2/3 of the population while African Americans almost 1/10.

Food Stamp Use By Race* (as of the 2010 FY)

Whites: 35% participation | 63.7% of US population

African Americans: 22% participation | 12.2% of US population

Hispanic: 10% participation | 16.3% of US population

Asian: 2% participation | 4.7% of US population

American Indian: 4% participation | 0.7% of US population

Unknown race: 19% participation | 0.2% of US population

*Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Census

This is one reason I don’t like the new commenting guidelines. 

It was very amusing to see one portion of our conservative friends vehemently denying the racism in their movement, while the other portion was making explicitly racist statements.

according to the stats if liberals were honest they would say African Americans on food stamps should be half of the current number.  However due to political blinders they refuse to acknowledge it. 

Why are conservatives always playing the race card?

all i did was click on the link that Tommy gave in his piece.  You somehow accuse people of playing the race card of using Tommys own statistics against him.  http://loop21.com/white-myth-black-people-love-food-stamps 

“However due to political blinders they refuse to acknowledge it.”

I prefer to think of it as an understanding of the history and effects of racial prejudice and institutional racism.

You are right super. White people are superior to blacks. Newt Gingrich is a hero for saying black people need to demand paychecks not food stamps. All black people do is smoke weed and do drugs and demand welfare checks while white people do all the work. It’s almost like, reverse slavery man. The blacks have enslaved white America! White Power!

Tommy, if you can’t figure it out and think these are facts then there is probably not much hope for you as a journalist.  Maybe you should go work for FoxNews.

Refusing to acknowledge factual truths that show a disproportionate impact on a portion of the population have everything to do with racial prejudice and institutional racism.

Well now that you understand it, what do you propose we do about it? More affirmative action?

http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/01/18/exclusive-document-private-1980-gingrich-memo-to-ronald-reagans-campaign-manager-reveals-former-speakers-racial-attitudes/
“With members of the mainstream media now hurling charges of using racially coded language against GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, Big Government has uncovered a private memorandum written over three decades ago that offers a unique glimpse into Mr. Gingrich’s longstanding attitudes about race.”"The private memo, dated July 1, 1980, was written by Mr. Gingrich on his official House of Representatives stationery and was sent to then-candidate Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager, Bill Casey, who would later become President Reagan’s CIA Director.”"In the memo, Mr. Gingrich urges Governor Reagan’s campaign to reconsider its decision not to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP) Convention.”“This is a great opportunity to prove that a conservative Republican can speak to the hearts and pocketbooks of Black Americans,” Gingrich urged in the memo.

“Conservative” guilt? Nah, they’re just a bunch of scum bags. That is all, thank you.

not in the 21st century.  Its due to bad schools.  Maybe you should see a documentary called waiting for superman. 

Well I can think of one thing that doesn’t help…right wing politicians exploiting prejudice for political gain.

So what is your point?  Are you all for Affirmative Action now because these statistics show that African Americans are falling behind in attaining the American Dream or are African Americans lazy and don’t want to work.  Which is it?  Are they lazier than White Americans?  Are they stupider?  What explains the discrepancy in the numbers?

Super
just acknowledge that you think Blacks are lazy and whites are superior. I
really wish people would just say what they think. I mean if you list those
statistics there is really only two explanations for it. 1). A history of institutional
racism that has directly and indirectly caused generational poverty and
demoralization. Or 2) Blacks just don’t have it. You are either one or the
other and many on the right come down to believing the latter.

After reading this, I get the impression that you know the welfare system does not work, and has never worked in 50 years of trying.  Yet you don’t want anyone to talk about ideas for changing it.  Why is that?

So your in favor of preferential treatment and hiring practices based exclusively on skin color? 

But the right wing is exploiting racial prejudice though….. 

if newt is our candidate hes going to actually campaign in African American neighborhoods.  Continue on the current liberal path where they want you dependent on the government.  That way you keep voting for the Liberals or you can choose a different path.  Paychecks vs Food stamps. 
Liberals will try to play the race card this election.  They did it 4 years ago against Bill Clinton and Obamas minions will do it again.  It doesn’t matter who the Republicans pick as their candidate the democrats will use the race card against them. 

So! This proves that Newt has been working on his Southern Strategy™ for over 30 years!
That is so racist of him!

am i white? 
;)
the answer might be a bit shocking to ya :b
If you want to solve the problem maybe you should see a documentary called waiting for superman.  It address many of the root causes. 
However it requires to take on powerful groups within the Democrat party. 

Actually, I’m in favor of finding ways to reverse preferential treatment of white people, but I understand that freaks out some white people who are secretly afraid that they might not be able to compete without white privilege on their side.

I think it’s important to make a distinction between the “jobs program” comment and the food-stamp comment. Also, there is so much racism in South Carolina that going after Gingrich for racially based but not necessarily racist views is just a waste of time in my opinion  

50 years of voting overwhelmingly Democratic has left black Americans with a generational cycle of dependency, and 72% FATHERLESS HOUSEHOLDS!
- All other problems stem from there!

The best social program is a strong economy.

Obama is opposed to a strong economy (how else to explain his policies and actions?).

Took me a couple of paragraphs in…

Funny I get similarly serious responses and thumbs-ups over satirical comments that only in fantasy world would anyone in their “right” mind make

The angry comments here show again why I tend to Mediaite avoid posts about racial issues. No one has clean hands. Liberals have played the race card, conservatives have played the race card. And very often racial attacks are heard where none exist.

As for Newt, I believe these three things:

1. He really does sincerely think that he has a program for people to get out of poverty.

2. He also believes that his path is better in part because it annoys liberals and fires up the base that ALSO likes that.

3. I think he’s wrong about the first and he’s clearly right about the second.

Tommy, thanks for the RNC daily talking points memo. You’re full of sh*t and I highly doubt you ever had a liberal thought in your head.

Creating racial animosity for clicks is Mediaite’s bread and butter.

What’s Juan doing , trying to get back into the good graces of NPR ? I never thought of him as a racist but man he sure showed his stripes. His own back yard is where the racist are, not with the gop candidates. Another good bro guy gone to waste..

What’s Juan doing , trying to get back into the good graces of NPR ? I never thought of him as a racist but man he sure showed his stripes. His own back yard is where the racist are, not with the gop candidates. Another good bro guy gone to waste..

Just like Rush Limbaugh ,NEWT cant even keep a wife..take advice from these guys..you gotta be kidding.

It was sarcasm Christopher.

Hey Tommy, you’re going way over your liberal buddies’ heads. Try to dumb it down a little next time.

If you really believe that’s what Newt was trying to do, then you’re too far gone into partisan la-la land to have a rational discussion with. Thanks anyway.

I’m so glad that I took the time to read the brilliance of Tommy Christopher in action. Because of Tommy, I’ve just now realized what a bunch of racist pr*cks Republicans are. These GOP candidates are deliberately saying things that Tommy, M-BS-NBC, NBC, ABC, CNN, CBS and Comedy Central can take out of context and smear them as racists with, because we all know that being called a racist gives a candidate a huge electoral advantage when running against Barack Obama. It worked out so well for Hillary Clinton and her husband.

Tommy, like Jimmy Carter, sees racism if someone says ‘good morning’.   Everyone knows poverty exists for all colors (well maybe not blue).  Believe it or not it is possible to address the problems of poverty without singling out a specific sub-group, which by the way Tommy, would exclude all other groups – are you being racist against non-blacks who happen to also be non-white?   

I think this column would be better if it were written in a straight forward fashion instead of with sarcasm. It IS sarcasm, right?

Again with the Newt Nazi arm pic???

Tommy,

This article is in very poor taste.   You have over reached in your snark/sarcasm/irony; whatever you call it.

In these bad economic times, we need a leader who will create an environment in the US for businesses to grow and create jobs.  Politicians shouldn’t be selling their grandiose theories for the people if there aren’t jobs for these people to begin with.  Yes, a job is better than a welfare check unless there are no jobs to be had.  That is where Obama has failed this country and its people most.  His hostility to business and capitalism is mind boggling – unless of course they’re paying $35,000 a ticket to a Obama campaign event.

Obama wants us equal – equally poor. 

Newt’s first wife was his high school teacher.  He was never the same after her.

It’s Norbit.

I’d recognize that over-the-top, hysterical posturing and total lack of logic anywhere.

This article was a waste.  You complain about racism, but y’all won’t even call it on your own side.  Last I checked, Charles Payne didn’t become successful by complaining about the injustices of previous generations or trying to become a rapper, he worked his ass off.  Same would go for Chris Gardner, or a plethora of other prosperous black people.

Instead, the token poverty pimps Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and whoever else are trotted out to complain about the Jews or the White interlopers as they are purely responsible for the failures of the community.  Never mind the public schools, never mind the victim mentality drilled into the minds of the youth, telling them they can’t do better without the government instituting quotas, no, it’s people like Newt Gingrich pointing out the modern day causes and failures that are the real racists.

You liberals, you must live in a wonderous, hate-filled, ignorance-driven world.

Why is newt talking to us “black folks” AFTER dragging the whole middle class to the “urban blight” level?
It’s called DIVIDE and CONQUER….look it up!

Golden Tommy!  Sharing straight to my Facebook wall.

This is all b.s.  Means nothing.  I’ve known some yuppies out of work who got on unemployment even though they could have done without it.  You can’t generalize about people like that.  Poverty is rarely a decision.

I’m convinced that white people have no real understanding of the plight of most African Americans in America. This article is nothing short of condescending bullshit aimed at raising the low balls of white conservatives. Seems to me that racial issues are at the top the priority issues. Right, lets discuss how blacks don’t know “how” to work…I’m sure those years of slavery were just a well planned vacation. If these GOP candidates have it their way we’ll be back in slavery before you know it.

Do you ever have a thought that does not involve calling someone a “scum bag”?  Try calling them slapdicks for a while just to give the rest of us a change of pace.

If everyone is equally poor, then who will be equally rich?

Looks like Newt is calling for one of those old Roosevelt programs, like the WPA or the CCC.  You can’t just tell people on relief to go get a job. 

You schlong-sucker.

Ex, the only Norbit that comes to most people’s mind’s is Eddie Murphy’s character.

But, it’s gonna be one helleva’ year on the political front, eh?

And I say “eh” in tribute to my Canadian brothers and sisters who are trying to get this JOB CREATING pipeline built – despite the virulent political opposition by the President and DEMOCRATS…whose policies will leave us with less jobs and more dependency on tenuous sources of foreign oil!

How about ass_monkeys, ass_monkeys is good too?

The truly sad thing is your statement would be closer to truth if you said Democrats instead of GOP.

Do look up what LBJ is purported to have said about the African-American community if Congress would pass his Civil Rights Act. Given what I know about LBJ, the supposed comment rings true.

Yikes.

I want to write that although I found great humor reading this piece, I was going to point out to Tommy that Conservatives do not get sarcasm.

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You make a good point.  It is not easy getting out of poverty without the added burden of discrimination.  I’ve met several talented, dynamic people who overcame poverty and discrimination in one generation, but that is rare and it would be unfair to try to hold everyone to their standards.  I think the main problem has been poverty more than racism. 

 Ass hat.  I like that one, too.  Thanks for pitching in, guys.

Obama is opposed to a strong economy

Dumbest comment yet.

I do believe they capitalize on it.

but Create?

I kinda like it.

Plus think about it.

Heil Gingrich!
Heil Gingrich!
Heil Gingrich!
Heil Gingrich!

HELLO!

It ALL comes down to responsible childbirth & rearing vs. irresponsible childbirth and rearing.

That’s at the foundation of all that happens after that.

If you have women who don’t have the wherewithal or support system to care for themselves – financially, emotionally, etc. – they SHOULD NOT be having babies where they don’t have the wherewithal to care for them either!
Bringing innocent babies into untenable life situations to satisfy YOUR emotional or financial needs is CHILD ABUSE!
- and that’s what Democrat Welfare Policies (however well-intended) have spawned!

11-06-12 — STOP the Democratic Party Welfare State!

Great piece Tommy.

I had a friend in Austin whose dad knew LBJ and bought his old Lincoln, then passed it down to my buddy.  We used to ride around town in it at lunchtime.  It’s the one depicted in the movie The Right Stuff.  Anyway, I always thought LBJ was a racist out loud to his entourage, but knew in his heart that was all bunk.  Lady Bird was truly his better half.  Both my mom and my wife got to hang with her, about 30 years apart.

Even if Newt had a plan  to help the poor which he does not , it would be hard to hear over the dog whistles.

LBJ was, above all, a man who would do ANYTHING to win political office and thus, power and money. Deep in his heart, he was nothing more than a politician.

I agree that Lady Bird was his better half.

Excellent grab.  That is Norbit, I’ll bet.  Norbit, did you get banned ?  It’s a badge of honor around here.  Ask the King.

Wow, your lack of perception is breathtaking.

“White people”, “African Americans” – did those 2-day old infants really know who they were BEFORE YOU & YOURS TOLD THEM?

There’s no innate group identities or divisions, just the one’s YOU’RE TEACHING!

Ha! Like your avatar, you must think that I was born yesterday. In fact, it was that picture that gave you away: it just happens to match the avatar of your Facebook profile, which was featured in a sidebar ad.

Once I saw the name and the picture and the crazy rants about Democrats and the cap letters and the exclamation points, it was all quite clear.

I knew you couldn’t stay away.

While I am in favor of affirmative action. . .

Don’t think there isn’t a good deal of reverse discrimination going on in our society.  What would you expect?

Poverty and racism aren’t separate issues. 

Poverty and lack of education among whites leads to white resentment, which leads directly to racial prejudice. 

Institutional racism against black and brown people is a primary cause of poverty in these communities. 

And he has made some REALLY dumb comments, too.

The only bIacks who leave the DNC are the upwardly mobile ones.

This is why the DNC is obsessed with fixing only the symptoms of what is wrong in the bIack community rather than focusing on solving any problems … it keeps them poor, dependent and voting straight ticket for life … racism of the highest order!

They even play the race card on Bill Cosby for trying to help.

In other words, the chronically racist DNC is saying “Back off … we don’t care who you are … if you even hint at the idea of promoting self responsibility in the bIack community … we will take you down to China Town! … kapeesh?  We are the social engineers of the bIack community and 9 out of 10 vote straight ticket, that’s ALL THAT MATTERS!!!  BACK THE FVCK OFF!!!!  So what if it’s a CESSPOOL … IT’S WORKING FOR US!!!!!!!!”

his high school teacher???? you cant write this stuff

“let me put a shine on those shoes Mista Newt suh”

there are no conservatives on welfare?????? reallly?????

”
Believe it or not it is possible to address the problems of poverty without singling out a specific sub-group”

Then why did Newt do that? Besides “because he loves and wants to help black people so much,” I mean.

Drove a school bus one year in college.  Picked up 30 black kids and took them to a racially-mixed high school.  Real fun times.  I was very lenient in comparison to the last driver, who would not let them chew gum.  Basically, the kids could do anything they wanted, provided they didn’t hurt anyone or break anything.  I learned a lot about their lives.  Ended up smoking Kools.

You lie…..

Sarcasm, obviously. I’m surprised so few seem to recognize it. I fear I may be in the company of the less-aware audience.

 See also: “A Modest Proposal…” by Jonathan Swift. 
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/modest.html

It’s true so I can write it.

Maybe because the Democratic Party and their cohorts in the media have created the perception that the ONLY ways in which Black Americans can be lifted out of poverty is through liberal policies and government dependence?

The ‘GOP is racist & evil’ meme is perpetuated daily and blacks who dare voice Republican ideals are called names and shunned by the left. 
Tommy, do you think that 50% of African-American single-parent households and staggeringly high abortion rates among African-American women are factors leading to high poverty in black communities? 
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I agree, Tommy’s snark in this post is hella annoying. 

You are truly living in a delusional state.

No one wants to enslave African-Americans… Quit playing the victim card – I know you can’t believe your own BS. 

Good point. I think the way they capitalize on it though creates racial tension in the comments, like the time some dude said he wanted to break my jaw.

Nice piece Tommy. It’s a beautiful deconstruction of Gingrich who is without a doubt today’s most successful racist. He’s very good at linguistics and the use of language. However I   think race is morphing into class and the dumbing down of America. There is slightly less overt racism but a lot of scapegoating. Poor black people are more despised than even poor whites because of the pandering of creeps like Gingrich.  Also, let’s get real, having a black President doens’t sit well with a lot of people. If Obama does a good job, it’s an insult that they couldn’t find a white man to do the job, and that the white Republicans, especially Bush II and the current crop of frightening and funny presidential candidates are much worse than Obama. I don’t know, I still have a hard time understanding how people can be bigoted, whereas class explains racism more realistically.

Sarcastic humor brings out many inner beliefs of the so called comedienne.

Between him and Pelosi, we have seen an increase in taxes, an increase in regulatory burdens on businesses, increased spending and expansion by the government, strengthened welfare dependency, and more.  Employment remains high, and while there is talk of a recovery, I have yet to see evidence of it.  If he wants to improve the economy, he needs to look at what he has done, see how that has failed, and then do the opposite.  Of course that would put him into the Tea Party, and I he has too much socialist indoctrination and not enough common sense for that.

I was being a little sarcastic when I said he was opposed to a strong economy, of course.  But we are seeing that Keynsian policies do not work, yet he continues to cling to them.  

I would rather he was Kenyan than Keynsian.

Which,
at the end of the day still is a institution vs inferiority argument. This one
is just the favorite of conservatives. Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh are basically
saying that for some strange unknown reason, blacks are more likely to use
government assistance and to let Government programs like welfare make them
dependant and irresponsible. That is both an institution AND inferiority argument.
You are openly saying that govt programs are holding blacks back and causing dependency.
While this argument also inadvertently states that blacks can’t resist taking
advantage of these social programs like welfare. Example: Rush Limbaugh often
says that welfare destroyed the black family because it took the place of the
father, as if black fathers just said “well, the government provides so
I’ll just take off” or “the woman said I don’t need you, I have a
check coming without you”. So why didn’t its creation and implementation
destroy white families? Inferiority? Many would answer well, there is just
something “different” about blacks. Now, I’m not saying that you
think this personally although many on the right do, I’m stating that this is
the sum of all the debates and disagreement. I just wonder why people like
Limbaugh, Beck, and Hannity are so willing to acknowledge the institution of
governments role in creating a generational dependency disaster for African
Americans, won’t acknowledge that government supported institutional racism,
that existed from Americas birth to 1968, could possibly still have lingering
effects on that section of the population.

What tax increases has Obama signed into law?  Be real specific.

For someone who claims to dislike the use of racial politics, Tommy consistently accuses people he finds politically disagreeable of the ill-defined thought crime known as racist dog-whistling (cf. Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich), went all in on the bullshit Tea Party/N Word/John Lewis story, and just yesterday insinuated nasty motives to Glenn Reynolds. It’s been my experience that when a white guy seems unusually obsessed with a topic like race, they’re over-compensating for significant racial anxieties of their own. People who are truly comfortable in diverse settings don’t constantly accuse others of racism. I’m not saying Tommy’s a secret racist or anything, only that I might hear dog whistling in a different register.  

A higher percentage of African Americans are born into poverty.

A higher percentage of African Americans are sent to prison by white juries.

I could go on but all the racists have fingers in their ears.

if you want to talk about saving money and reducing taxes by ending poverty and food stamp programs, then you can’t ignore the raw numbers. More tax money goes to helping White people than Black people in this country, and more money goes to prosecuting and imprisoning Black people than white people for the same crimes.High raw numbers equals more money. Percentages merely demonstrate which socioeconomic groups are in more trouble and need more help or a change in our criminal justice policies and procedures.

And lets not forget. There is more poverty and lack of education in states ruled by rightwing REPUBLICANS than anywhere else. So they are definitely doing something wrong.

And since more businesses by percentage and number are controlled by white people, they get to choose which race of people to hire and how much to pay them. So let’s stop playing rhetorical games.

The article is a sarcasm mocking the right wing nut job called Newt and his ignorant supporters. 

And lets not forget. There is more poverty and lack of education in states ruled by rightwing REPUBLICANS than anywhere else. So they are definitely doing something wrong.

And since more businesses by percentage and number are controlled by white people, they get to choose which race of people to hire and how much to pay them. So let’s stop playing rhetorical games.
 
A higher percentage of African Americans are born into poverty.A higher percentage of African Americans are sent to prison by white juries. I could go on.

If you want to talk about saving money and reducing taxes by ending poverty and food stamp programs, then you can’t ignore the raw numbers. More tax money goes to helping White people than Black people in this country, and more money goes to prosecuting and imprisoning Black people than white people for the same crimes. And more money is spent on educating and training white people.

High raw numbers equals more money. Percentages merely demonstrate which socioeconomic groups are in more trouble and need more help or a change in our criminal justice policies and procedures.

LOL to think that anyone who labels themselves “conservative” could offer an real sense of freedom or liberty is laughable, in fact, roll-on-the-floor-laughable. Truth be told each side is deeply flawed, be honest with yourself, and you’ll see that too.

So in your twisted logic. 22% out of 12% is more than 35% out of 63%? 

What’s truly sad about this whole affair is to see so many individuals bow down in praise and admiration of a circus clown.Proves to me the entire Republican Party would be better served if served as soyent green.Unfortunately,this would also probably return as unpalatable.

White women and therefore white men ( high marriage rate among whites) have gained the most from affirmative action when compared to racial minorities.

BTW did you know that white men are given preference in college admissions now because their college attendance rates have been falling and is below that of white women?

I guess that’s a type of affirmative action you would like.

Newt should fit right in with ‘the blacks’ after all his middle name IS Leroy. *sarcasm off*

Stand by for a racist question…. Name one Black leader that improved the living standards for Black’s that made it safe for a white man to walk in the Hood after dark in any large city.
So as long as Black’s have an excuse …………

Not twisted logic, but rather straightforward math…

Take 100 food stamp participants.  35 would be white, 22 would be african american, 10 would be hispanic.

Take 100 americans at random, 63 would be white, 12 would be african american, 16 would be hispanic.

Thus, the odds that a specific african american is on assistance is 2x their representation in the population; the odds that a white is is around 1/2 their participation in the population and the odds that a specific hispanic is on relief is around 2/3 of their representation in the population.

There are many reasons for this, many of which are depated in the thread, and are not genetic–the cycle of poverty, family factors like single parenthood, etc.  But the math makes the case that african americans are on relief at disproportionately hgh numbers.  Compare them to hispanics, which have higher population representation but lower food stamp participation.

Tommy attempts to paint the vast majority of conservatives as racist.  Not sure why that would be better than his concern that Gingrich is trying to paint blacks as lazy, other than the fact that political correctness protects negative generalizations of whites.

Guess that’s why he said no Keystone Pipeline after it had been studied by the State Department for 3 years???

Healthcare…of course, he was devious enough for it not to go into effect until 2014….hope you like the Federal Tax on the buying & selling of homes

“Ich bin ein ‘Helpful Newt.’”

Ask any workforce development program in an inner city about “soft skills” and they will tell you that, yes, they have to train young Black men to actually go to work everyday and on time. But, if an old White man points this out, he’s racist.

That’s diabolically crafty!

The guys at Fox Nation didn’t get the sarcasm. Priceless.

Liberal blacks love race bating.  Race bating gives them extra power.  Did you see Congressman Clyburn the other day taking offense at Newt’s assertion that taking a few high paying union janitorial jobs and splitting them between inner city students would be good for student self-esteem?  Clyburn said that Newt was “denigrating the poor”. 

I’ve heard other liberal black leaders using that expression. I’ve heard Charlie Rangel say it.

All of a sudden I came to a realization.  These idiots think that the term “DENIGRATE” is a racial slur.

It’s no wonder the Democrat party is such a den of bozos. These people don’t own a dictionary, and have likely never read a book. How can black society progress with these clowns as leaders?

Why are Liberals always saying, conservatives are playing the race card, when it doen’t apply?

Of the percenatage of Blacks sent to prison, how many are guilty of the charge that got them there?

Attention literal readers, this column is written is a style called “sarcasm”.

sar·casm   [sahr-kaz-uhm] Show IPA
noun 1. harsh or bitter derision or irony. 2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms.

If you look, you can find examples of “sarcasm” in your daily life, perhaps unless that life is spent in mom’s basement on the computer.

He was 19 & she was 26.  He was able to dodge the draft for Vietnam because he was married & in school.

Sorry, my friend, but both you and Newt Gingrich are racist.

It’s not because of the numbers.  You’re using statistics to prove your point, but that is exactly the problem.

You’ve taken your eyes off people, and are looking only at numbers.  You’re ignoring the person, and pointing to logic as the most important thing.

That is the problem with Newt.  He’s so convinced of his own superiority in terms of logic, that he no longer sees the inconsistency in how he treats people.  It’s the same issue with his previous wives; he believes he is right because he’s convinced that logic trumps all.  

The problem is that basing arguments only on logic is that it assumes you understand all the input for each function.  That, mathematically, is impossible, because the domain for logic is infinity, thereby making the range infinite as well.  You can’t understand everything.  Humans are not omnipotent, and cannot understand all the input.  Therefore, the only reasonable solution is to focus on people.  Logic only matters as it applies to people – to relationship.

That’s the problem with Newt.  He’s forgotten, or never learned, that people trump logic.  Every.  Time.

you have no understanding of the plight of white people everywhere.

Tell me, when was the last time a bunch of white people came into your city and proclaimed they would ‘kill all the white people’?

You have NO idea what those people in Peoria are feeling and you don’t really care, admit it.

you mean like how Liberals lie about not having a explicitly anti white tone in most of the media operations and how a lot of the people on your side would apparently like to kill WHITE Tea Party members, as that video game would suggest with the clear racial language inside of it?

The racism in this country is more 90% left dominated.

So many words to say Absolutely NOTHING at all!  

Christi you do know that 90% of ALL african slaves were Enslaved by OTHER AFRICANS and sold on the west coast of africa at a handsome price right?  Of course you dont!  I bet you also do not know that the ARAB Persians started the African slave trade 400 years BEFORE the Portuguese.  ALso there is still a ton of African slavery going on in africa right this very second…..you HIGH BROW liberals just love to dictate how morally superior you are to the rest of the world but you live in a world where the sky is red and the clouds are yellow…………

Yes I suppose confiscating wealth and redistributing to those who do not have it under the guise of welfare, is YOUR IDEA OF FREEDOM!!!!!  hahahahaha the two most destructive Regimes in history, the Nazis and the Bolshevik Russians were BOTH EXTREMELY LIBERAL LEFTIST IDEOLOGIES!

rountry: Your statement is a twofold logical fallacy. First, you suggest the welfare system is intended as a solution to poverty, which it is not. That’s a false equivalence. Suggesting that welfare has not solved poverty and therefore is a failure is a non sequitur. Welfare is and has always been meant to assuage the effects of poverty, not get rid of it. In that regard it is very successful. Combining the two is a mistaken condemnation of a successful program alleviating the suffering of millions and blames the victims for their duress. Now that you’ve been given accurate information, should you persist in your false reasoning, you become either willfully ignorant or a liar. You no longer have any other options.

No, the three are not connected. Democratically led programs and policies that have sucessfully lifted untold millions out of abject poverty and enfranchised their electoral voice has not created anything resembling the false narrative (read: outright lie) of dependence on government, cyclic or generational or otherwise, and is in no way connected with (the inaccurate and misleadingly disingenuous) fatherless households.

Even were there, indeed, such depencence — which, I repeat, there is not — how would that be different from farmers’ wheat, soy, cheese, milk and myriad other price supports and production subsidies or corporate dividend dependence on tax loopholes and marketing or development subsidies? Where is your outrage and comparison on those subjects?

You invoke a logical fallacy with no foundation in fact, proof or reality. That kind of bull crap isn’t going to work any more (except in perniciously regressive places like North Carolinian Republican political events).

No. 1:  Observing the
city I grew up in I can’t really name anybody, but the losers or people who’s
parents had what was considered a “good” job in my neighborhood that didn’t
work after school. That’s no more than the losers that don’t work in any other
neighborhood. Maybe we didn’t have a job making the best money mostly labor
jobs, cleaning jobs, fast food or factory work, when those jobs
were plentiful in the early 2000′s but we all worked. I got my
working papers at 14 and so did almost every kid in my neighborhood so what the
heck is all this black people don’t know how to work B.S. Newt and anybody who
agrees with this is trying to assuage their white guilt or self hate
if their black, with the fact that black people are disproportionally unemployed
not because they don’t want to work, can’t work or don’t know how to work, it’s
because too many small minded people with racial hung ups
(conscious or subconscious) are the all mighty job creators. No one
wants to talk about the fact that in the past when blacks did try to open
businesses they were either denied loans or scrutinized much more than any
other race in this country. I say if you want more blacks inm poor
neighborhoods owning their own businesses let them do it. It’s like telling
some one to leave your house but handcuffing them to a chair so they can’t
leave. Double speak is what this country is founded on in regards to race. I
don’t know how many countless interviews I went on before and after college
where because of what can be ignorantly considered my ”white sounding” name and the fact I studied at a top
university that when I was called to the office of the interviewing manager
they either had a stunned look on their face or right out asked me, “Your
Nancy O’Connell?”

You know the thing that hurts the most the first time I ever felt
like I was being judged for who I am based on my character was when I lived in
England. Nobody ever parted his or her lips to say in amazement that I was
doing something out of the ordinary by working hard because I was Black. They
said to me, “Good job you’re really a hard worker” They didn’t after
knowing me tell me how different I am from other Black people. To actually have
an employer here in the US after we became good friends and I moved to another
job she had racial bias when hiring people and almost missed out on the
opportunity to hire me because I was black was one of the things she felt great
shame about. There are way to many blacks paying taxes and working so I am challenging
these welfare statistics. I would like to know how this data is collected and
analyzed. It just seems off when you think about it. A majority of Americans
are ineligible for Food Stamps and public assistance or maybe my state operates
different I know people who can’t buy food because they are underemployed and
they have been denied, don’t these numbers sound strange to anybody across the
board. I don’t know every time I hear a politician say don’t divide America by
race than shoot off at the mouth about the lazy, shiftless, winey minority who
doesn’t want to work it let’s me know they are playing to the hate in people
who already have racial hang ups about minorities and looking to divert the
attention from real issues by keeping the races and classes at each others
throats. It’s like throwing a bone into a pit filled with 100 starving pit
bulls. All rationale disappears and people forget to actually look at what the
candidate is really trying to do.

Yes and the romans enslaved people from other european countries that looked like them and then the British did the same to the Irish, which if America hadn’t of come up with the brilliant idea to base slavey on a race system after the first few years, today we would probably have Irish/Black History Month in a couple of days, so your point is what? As for citizens of the African continent, even in today’s world everybody is not one homogeneous group. Would you agree as a US citizen we are from North America, but we are not Canadian? Same deal here those were tribal conflicts they weren’t African conflicts per se, they were one tribe enslaving another, no different than anything going on in Europe at that time. As for slavery today, who do you think the slaves in those African countries are servicing now, just Arab nations? No they are still providing services for the US and other developed nations (ex. Cocoa beans for the chocolate we eat in this country) not to mention the countless slave laborers who provide services to this country in Asia and South America and other places in the world. Slavery, when you think about it, never really ended we just kind of passed it on to another group of people. So instead of correcting Christi you should probably correct yourself. One more thing do you really think the worst thing that ever happend in America, was slavery? I would put my money on the attempt to eradicate the Native people and the psychological and physical torture (lynchings, rapes other forms of brutality) of Jim Crow over slavery any day.

Umm excuse me but i dont smoke for your info and 2nd i have a education so say what you wanna say buddy

oh yeah and 3rd I go to college for bussiness administrator but I’m on food stamp and i don’t work  and pay bills , i just smoke weed and drink and mess around with female and have 6 kids yeah let me tell you buddy , this is the problem with america right now , to many people complain about what the other race do its dumb and stupid , ignorant  , we should be coming together and help each other out , its not about race here , its this economy is falling and we need to do something about , i don;t care what you guys say but this guy is wrong , trying to African Americans Don’t work and on food stamp??? , I’m sorry but my family is successful and what they do , we work go to school and got GED , high school diplomas and in college or in the navy , U.S Army etc … so say what you wanna say , i know my family is dam good people and work there asses off to get where they are right now , I’m proud to be a successful black man in this world and nothing going to change