Wow. There just isn’t much to say here. Mitt Romney went brown face last night addressing a town hall meeting hosted by Univision in an attempt to court Latino voters. He was darker than the two Latino hosts of the event. Dios mio. And cowardly Repugs with massive inferiority complexes…
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MHP had a brilliant show this morning. Fantastic discussion. GOP parrot Monica Mehta’s staggering ignorance and parroting of unsupported GOP talking points had me retorting at the TV rather vigorously all morning. But MHP and the rest of the panel was having none of it. Monica needs to be educated…
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CMP originally posted these stats back in January. But as Romney amplifies his racial rhetoric, the stats bear repeating again. 70% of Welfare and Public Assistance Recipients are White; 66.66% of Food Stamp Recipients are White From The Root: White Americans, poor and middle-class alike, receive the vast majority of…
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From CAP: President Barack Obama is not a “food stamp president.” According to recent figures, more food stamp recipients were actually added under President George W. Bush than under President Obama. Under President Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Blacks are not the primary recipients of…
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Criminal InJustice† is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. Criminalizing President Obama by Kay Whitlock The 2012 presidential…
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From Mother Jones: [T]he Center on Budget and Policy Priorities decided to add up the numbers and figure out how much money the federal government spends on the nonworking poor. The answer: about 10 percent of all federal welfare spending. How did they come up with that? CBPP’s methodology uses…
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From ClutchMag: The monster beneath this rhetoric is the Welfare Queen, the fabled boogeywoman of the 1976 Reagan presidential campaign. “She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards and is collecting veterans’ benefits on four nonexisting deceased husbands,” Reagan told enraptured crowds at stump speeches. “Her tax-free income…
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From ThinkProgress: Faith in Public Life reports that more than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians across the country are calling on two of their “fellow Catholics,” GOP contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, to stop using divisive rhetoric about race and poverty on the campaign trail. Noting that Catholics consider…
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