For Republicans, a Homeless, 11-year-old Black Girl Named Dasani is a 'Useless Eater' Who Should Die

[sheshe2]

The right's politics of cruelty would have the poor, the brown and even children 'disappeared.'



December 12, 2013 |



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Republicans want to cut food stamps, believe that kicking people off of unemployment insurance who cannot find a job in an economy where there are 3 people for every available ob, and that a particularly evil and twisted version of "Christian faith" justifies punishing and hurting poor people as righteous deeds and acts that mark conservatives as the elect who are destined for heaven.

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I wrote about how the Tea Party GOP wants to kill the "useless eaters" here. I was also fortunate to do an interview on Right of Fire Radio where I explained my argument in more detail.

During that conversation, I made a special effort to "connect the dots" between how the Republican Party's hostility to the poor and working classes is fueled by white racism and an explicit appeal to Eliminationism, i.e that some citizens are worthy of life and others are to be purged and eliminated from the body politic.

During his TV segment, Al Sharpton mentioned this heart-wrenching piece about a homeless 11-year-old child in New York by the name of Dasani. Her tale of struggle and endurance is both tragic and inspiring. Dasani is a little soldier; Dasani should not have to play such a role in what is ostensibly the world's "richest" country.

America is rotting from within while the very rich smile and gloat. The 1 percent can buy their kids tree houses that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Dasani has to struggle to maintain her dignity while living in the shadow of squalor.

http://www.alternet.org/media/republicans-homeless-11-year-old-black-girl-named-dasani-useless-eater-who-should-die

[Cha]

1. Unreal how cruelty to others attracts

so much riffraff, she. Thinking somehow that their lives are the only ones that matter on this Planet, and they couldn't be further from the truth.

From your link..

"The Republican Party wants poor people and the vulnerable such as 11-year-old children like Dasani and her family to be "disappeared" from the body politic--in essence to die. As viewed by the White Right, they are "untermensch." The language which Republicans and their media use to describe poor, working class, and unemployed people--in particular those who are black and brown--leads to no other reasonable conclusion."

Thank you for posting, sheshe

[sheshe2]

4. I know what you mean, Cha.

They know one thing, hate.

They believe they are going to Heaven, for loving their money more than mankind. They are in fact inhuman and will spend an eternity in hell.

[davidpdx]

2. I've been reading that story on the NY Times website

They are using the new "storyline" format which provides pictures of exactly what she is going through. This isn't the first time they've used this format and it is quite an interesting way to enhance the telling of someone's story.

Just in case anyone missed it in the other threads:

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child

[sheshe2]

6. Powerful. Thank you for the link, david.

From you link.

Soon, all of Dasani’s uniforms are stained. At school, she is now wearing donated clothes and her hair is unkempt, inviting the dreaded designation of “nappy.” Rumors are circulating about where she lives. Only six of the middle school’s 157 students reside in shelters.

When the truth about Dasani emerges, she does nothing to contradict it. She is a proud girl. She must find a way to turn the truth, like other unforeseeable calamities, in her favor.

She begins calling herself “ghetto.” She dares the girls to fight her and challenges the boys to arm-wrestle, flexing the biceps she has built doing pull-ups in Fort Greene Park. The boys watch slack-jawed as Dasani demonstrates the push-ups she has also mastered, earning her the nickname “muscle girl.”

Her teachers are flummoxed. They assume that she has shed her uniform because she is trying to act tough. In fact, the reverse is true.

[sheshe2]

11. Post #2, davidpdx

Check this out freshwest...

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child

davidpdx

[freshwest]

3. All their terms reflect their Reichwing roots. No other explanation for their words and methods. n/t

[Scuba]

5. Republicans do not want to see these children just die ...

.... they want to see them die on the job.

[DhhD]

7. Republicans want poor children to work at school and replace a unionized janitor. And die on the

job.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/newt-gingrich-thinks-school-children-should-work-as-janitors/248837/

[Scuba]

8. Yes, I didn't mean my post to be perceived as hyperbole.

[daleanime]

9. +1

[ReRe]

10. It's their way of saying "Merry Christmas, Rabble"

They're going to be so confused when they arrive at the Pearly Gates and are refused entry.

[sheshe2]

13. You are so right ReRe.

They are going to burn in hell!

[historylovr]

12. K & R

No one should have to live like this. On second thought, those who implement austerity and those who support it should have to live like this.

[sheshe2]

14. Well said, historylovr!

Thank you~

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. +1.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. If republicans want to see "useless eaters"

I'd suggest they use their Christmas vacation to have floor-to-ceiling mirrors installed in the House and Senate chambers.

[sheshe2]

17. Bingo!

You got it!

[Enthusiast]

18. According to Gingrich, Dasani should go to work.

That's what he said.