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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 12:03 AM Aug 2014

Ezra Klein refutes Democratic War on White People with facts


National Journal’s 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 you’re seen as the Party of White people.”

Rep. Mo Brooks went on the Laura Ingraham show and responded as follows when asked about Fournier’s statement. “This is a part of the war on Whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party, Mo Brooks said. “And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that Whites hate everybody else. It’s 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 that’s not true.”

Monday Ezra Klein took Congressman Mo Brook’s statement to task on MSNBC’s 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
Very informative emsimon33 Aug 2014 #1
Tweety was actually pretty good today on this. SunSeeker Aug 2014 #2
Good video Gothmog Aug 2014 #3
Seems to me the only comment needed is: Democratic Party 60% white, GOP 89% white. Hortensis Aug 2014 #4

SunSeeker

(51,592 posts)
2. Tweety was actually pretty good today on this.
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 02:25 AM
Aug 2014

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."

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Seems to me the only comment needed is: Democratic Party 60% white, GOP 89% white.
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 10:32 AM
Aug 2014

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.

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