Here is a quiz which will determine quickly if you recognize racism.
Which of these statements is racist?
1. “We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households. . . We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of school; and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”
2.“We know young black men are twice as likely as young white men to be ‘disconnected’ — not in school, not working.”
3. “In troubled neighborhoods all across this country — many of them heavily African-American — too few of our citizens have role models to guide them.”
4. "We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with."
5. “Fewer young black and Latino men participate in the labor force compared to young white men. And all of this translates into higher unemployment rates and poverty rates as adults.”
Before you decide which of these statements are racist (if any), you should know that the five include the statement of Paul Ryan that was immediately labeled as racist by the Democrats and the media and which brought an avalanche of condemnation. So which one(s) came from Paul Ryan?
The answer may surprise you. Ryan said item 4 above. The others (1, 2, 3, and 5) come from speeches made by president Obama. The statements and the response to them are quite revealing. No one called Obama an anti-black racist in response to what he said. When Ryan said essentially the same thing, he is suddenly vilified as a racist. The truth is that it did not matter what Ryan said. The idea is that Ryan actually addressed the problem of the urban poor, a group in which African Americans are over-represented. The idea that a Republican would dare discuss the problems of this group and consider remedies other than those which have been pushed for decades by the liberals and which have failed miserably for those same decades is a challenge to liberal orthodoxy that the left cannot let go unchallenged. So they respond to Ryan in the same way the left responds to every other discussion of their failed policies. They cannot defend the policies, so they attack the person who starts the discussion.
"Ryan is racist" is actually an admission by the liberals that they are out of ideas. America has tried their solutions and found that they do not work. All the libs have left is personal attacks. This is not a new tactic. Consider the 2012 presidential election in which the Democrats did not try to put forth a program or any new ideas; they just attacked Mitt Romney as and elitist, a racist and an all around mean and uncaring guy.
Hat tip to Rich Lowry who compiled the Obama statements above in his most recent column.
Which of these statements is racist?
1. “We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households. . . We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of school; and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”
2.“We know young black men are twice as likely as young white men to be ‘disconnected’ — not in school, not working.”
3. “In troubled neighborhoods all across this country — many of them heavily African-American — too few of our citizens have role models to guide them.”
4. "We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with."
5. “Fewer young black and Latino men participate in the labor force compared to young white men. And all of this translates into higher unemployment rates and poverty rates as adults.”
Before you decide which of these statements are racist (if any), you should know that the five include the statement of Paul Ryan that was immediately labeled as racist by the Democrats and the media and which brought an avalanche of condemnation. So which one(s) came from Paul Ryan?
The answer may surprise you. Ryan said item 4 above. The others (1, 2, 3, and 5) come from speeches made by president Obama. The statements and the response to them are quite revealing. No one called Obama an anti-black racist in response to what he said. When Ryan said essentially the same thing, he is suddenly vilified as a racist. The truth is that it did not matter what Ryan said. The idea is that Ryan actually addressed the problem of the urban poor, a group in which African Americans are over-represented. The idea that a Republican would dare discuss the problems of this group and consider remedies other than those which have been pushed for decades by the liberals and which have failed miserably for those same decades is a challenge to liberal orthodoxy that the left cannot let go unchallenged. So they respond to Ryan in the same way the left responds to every other discussion of their failed policies. They cannot defend the policies, so they attack the person who starts the discussion.
"Ryan is racist" is actually an admission by the liberals that they are out of ideas. America has tried their solutions and found that they do not work. All the libs have left is personal attacks. This is not a new tactic. Consider the 2012 presidential election in which the Democrats did not try to put forth a program or any new ideas; they just attacked Mitt Romney as and elitist, a racist and an all around mean and uncaring guy.
Hat tip to Rich Lowry who compiled the Obama statements above in his most recent column.
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