John Kasich makes patronizing comment

[rbrnmw]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/john-kasich-african-americans_n_1840366.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular


During an event hosted by The Huffington Post in Tampa, Florida, Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) gave his thoughts on the direction business growth should take.

"You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city," Kasich said. "We have to convince African Americans that they can start and own businesses. And I was just laughing the other day reading that great article about Jay-Z, who's got a tiny little ownership of the Newark Nets and he's running the whole gosh darn thing now."

Kasich continued: "People like that, who have shown that they can come form the streets and have a tough beginning and then be able to become great entrepreneurs -- we've got to get it into our schools in the inner-cities, we've got to show kids that, boy, you can be what you want to be. And Arianna, I think it's critical, because if you take a look at the popele who've been left out of prosperity around our country. It's terrible. And we're having set-aside programs in my state and I tell my staff, I said look, if you don't give African Americans particularly an opportunity to share in the economic pie, we're just nuts."

[cthulu2016]

1. I'll bite. What's the racist part?

I've been pretty darn sensitive to identifying overt racism in a lot of RW rhetoric, but I must have missed it here

[rbrnmw]

2. Did you go to the link and read?

[cthulu2016]

3. No, I assumed that you would support the headline in the OP in some way.

My bad.

Having now visited the link, which ads nothing of note, there remains nothing racist there.

If Obama has said exactly the same words nobody would question it. (Except that Obama would probably have phrased it better, being a smarter man than Kasich.)

It appears that Kasich is offering a defense of some level of affirmative action set-asides in school resources, couched in terms that are similar to those many Democrats have used in making the same point.

If that is not what he is saying then I have failed to read his comments correctly.

[rbrnmw]

5. sorry

[cthulu2016]

7. In light of the edit from "Racist" to "Patronizing," I will agree that

it is, indeed, always uncomfortable hearing Republicans talking about what ought to be done for black folks.

Frankly, it is sometimes even uncomfortable hearing white Democrats talk about what ought to be done for black folks.

Any time anyone are talking about "them" it is uncomfortable, in that it implies a distance or hierarchical relationship.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Uhhh, Kasich ...

I re-telling the Jay-Z story, you kinda left out the part about his financing his early entrepreneurial efforts through another entrepreneurial effort ... Selling Crack.

But that said, I agree ...

The direction of entrepreneurial efforts SHOULD go towards the inner-cities; you can help by:

1) Strengthening anti-Redlining laws;
2) Address governmental service disinvestments;
3) Increase governmental infrastructure investment ...

Call me, I have a couple other ideas, too!

[elleng]

6. Racist?

'we've got to get it into our schools in the inner-cities, we've got to show kids that, boy, you can be what you want to be. And Arianna, I think it's critical, because if you take a look at the popele who've been left out of prosperity around our country. It's terrible.'

Seems to acknowledge education system is failin. May be first thing I've agreed with kasich about.

[rbrnmw]

8. OK I changed it too patronizing but the message is clear to me

he only points out one race and only inner city schools what about rural schools with poor children period the inference is there IMO