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Related: About this forumEzra Klein refutes Democratic War on White People with facts
National Journals Ron Fournier seemed to have gotten under the skin of the Right Wing. Your Party cannot be, Ron Fournier said. the Party of the future beyond November if youre seen as the Party of White people.
Rep. Mo Brooks went on the Laura Ingraham show and responded as follows when asked about Fourniers statement. This is a part of the war on Whites thats being launched by the Democratic Party, Mo Brooks said. And the way in which theyre launching this war is by claiming that Whites hate everybody else. Its part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. Well thats not true.
Monday Ezra Klein took Congressman Mo Brooks statement to task on MSNBCs All-In with Chris Hayes. The average wealth and income of white people continue to exceed that of minorities by very large percentages. The incarceration rates of minorities far exceed white people. The poverty rate of minorities far exceed that of white people. This led Ezra Klein to make the following statement.
If this is what it looks like when the Democrats running the federal government declare war on White people, man I would hate to see what it would look like if the government declared war on non-White people.
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http://egbertowillies.com/2014/08/05/ezra-klein-mo-brooks-white-people/
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Ezra Klein refutes Democratic War on White People with facts (Original Post)
egbertowillies
Aug 2014
OP
Seems to me the only comment needed is: Democratic Party 60% white, GOP 89% white.
Hortensis
Aug 2014
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emsimon33
(3,128 posts)1. Very informative
Thank you for posting this.
SunSeeker
(51,592 posts)2. Tweety was actually pretty good today on this.
He brought up this "war on white people" BS and noted that white people have not been forced to work "350 years without a pay day." Then his guest, former GOP Chair Michael Steele, said he's "still waiting for his 40 acres and a mule."
Gothmog
(145,427 posts)3. Good video
Mo Brooks is an idiot
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)4. Seems to me the only comment needed is: Democratic Party 60% white, GOP 89% white.
Why be defensive about silly lies from a self-destructing opposition?
The GOP is no longer a Grand Old Party. Its mainstream leaders serve big money. Its membership has shrunk to an 89%-white group largely motivated to maintain, and act out, white supremacy. Aside from the characteristic conservative resistance to any and all change, all other issues are subordinated to these two motivations.