Santorum Again Relates Food Stamps to Minorities
Santorum Again Relates Food Stamps to Minorities
By Lindsey Boerma | National Journal 6 hrs ago
TROY, Mich. -- Rick Santorum on Saturday resuscitated one of his more controversial remarks from the past few months of campaigning for president, connecting food stamps with minority communities.
Speaking to a large crowd at the conservative Americans for Prosperity Presidential forum here, Santorum said he planned to talk to minority communities, not about giving them food stamps and government dependency, but about creating jobs so that they can participate in the rise of this country.
In January, Santorum made a similar remark, but instead of minorities, he used the phrase black people. He later said he was misheard.
Santorum also reiterated his belief that one of President Obamas driving motives for encouraging Americans to attend college is to remake you into his image.
More:
http://news.yahoo.com/santorum-again-relates-food-stamps-minorities-145411488.html
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Devil_Fish
(1,664 posts)Frothy said this months ago. The only way this might be LBN would be if the story was: "Repub Candidate does not flip flop on posision" which is the only thing truly shocking.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)jwleute
(7 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Rick Abramoff Santorum
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)all America will be watching. And then, everyone will know who really gets the most food stamps.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)According to the Associated Press: 49 percent of food stamp recipients are white, 26 percent are African American, and 20 percent are Hispanic.
regional map:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/28/us/20091128-foodstamps.html
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)usage is higher in minority communities based on population. However, it is because of racial barriers and economic isolation, not because of racial characteristics as Santorum infers.
psychopomp
(4,668 posts)Perhaps you don't know that the origin of the use of "maroon" as an indication of mental inferiority comes from the Maroon people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon_(people)
I hope that you will commit this to memory and refrain from using this term in the future.
edit: The script used by DU has trouble with the hyperlink string, the " people)" element is not interpreted as part of the link. Be sure to see the Wiki on the Maroon people, they were a proud, strong, independent people who confounded attempts to enslave them.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)usage here at DU, not some obscure racial (group) epithet.
"what a maroon" (uncapitalized):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny
I certainly hope you knew that,
but thanks for your link, I guess.
psychopomp
(4,668 posts)to make it part of their username, you seem to make little of the importance of words.
You must know that 1940's Looney Tunes was held to a different standard, one where racist stereotypes were tossed around with no regard. The better part of a century on, we must hold ourselves to a higher, more informed standard.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)Firstly, you suggest that my user name implies that I should have a higher regard for "words" It's actually- as you probably recognize- a quote from the prison warden in Paul Newman's "Cool Hand Luke" The warden uses it several times to indicate - with unintentional irony- that the prisoner, Luke, is refusing to conform... to HIS rules.
Secondly, while I grant you that Looney Tunes may have used racist stereotypes, because 'standards were different back then', Bugs is mispronouncing the word "moron" which is from the Ancient Greek word μωρός (moros), meaning "dull" because he mispronounces the NEXT word, "ignoramus" Latin for "I am ignorant of". Clearly the writers where adding a bit of self deprecation there, a hallmark of Bugs Bunny's persona. Bugs was calling Elmer Fudd a dull, ignorant person. Undeserved, perhaps, but hardly "racist".
And, thirdly, the term "Maroon" - that you accuse me of using without knowing it's "racist" origins - was descriptive term from the Spanish word "Cimarron" literally "living on mountaintops"; from Spanish cima: "top, summit" which is where the runaway slaves commonly went to escape the slave plantation system. Interesting, but not racist. And most importantly here, because that is not what Bugs - or I - meant.
But do stay vigilant. DU is fertile ground for critics wanting to correct intentional, unintentional, or ironic 'errors' But also please remember... "Some men you just can't reach"
(edited to remove supporting links)
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)usage that way. I grew up in segregated Texas and I never heard the term used to disparage anyone racially or ethnically (and I heard a LOT). But I also grew up with Bugs Bunny cartoons. That is my knowledge base of the term, except for the reference to the deep vibrant maroon color, as in "I bought this dress in a lovely maroon shade." But I never heard it applied to people...in fact, I think it would be a bit odd.
Here is a link:
Response to FailureToCommunicate (Reply #31)
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La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)infact its what the british/indians refer to when they are talking about burgundy
alp227
(31,962 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)The election will not be won by the repubs being themselves. It will be won by them being as moderate as possible. Their extreme wing simply does not have the numbers to overcome 0bama's base. They need to be moderate to get the independents. So tell us more, Rick, about minorities. Please. I want to hear all about it. Don't hold back.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)are really about is good. Just let him keep talking. It's chews away at any credibility Fox, RNC ever had in Republican moderate eyes.
OnlinePoker
(5,702 posts)This is from a 6 Feb article in U.S.A. Today:
The most recent Department of Agriculture report on the general characteristics of the SNAP program's beneficiaries says that in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2010:
47% of beneficiaries were children under age 18.
8% were age 60 or older.
41% lived in a household with earnings from a job the so-called "working poor."
The average household received a monthly benefit of $287.
36% were white (non-Hispanic), 22% were African American (non-Hispanic) and 10% were Hispanic.
Update, Feb. 5: USDA data understate these figures, however, because participants are not required to state their race or ethnic background. As a result, 18.9% are listed as "race unknown." A more accurate estimate of the racial and ethnic composition of food-stamp recipients can be drawn from U.S. Census data, based on a sample of households surveyed each year in the American Community Survey. For 2010, Census data show the following for households that reported getting food stamp assistance during the year:
49% were white (non-Hispanic); 26% were black or African American; and 20% were Hispanic (of any race).
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-01-18/fact-check-gingrich-obama-food-stamps/52645882/1
I seriously hope Santorum is the GOP nominee because Obama would wipe the floor with him.
IamK
(956 posts)Taking those numbers vs the population, about 7% of whites, 20% of Hispanics and 25% of African Americans are on SNAP/Food Stamps...
Fortran
(83 posts)...
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)and he's done so publicly twice in the past few months. I'd love to see or hear evidence that he's made similar remarks in low income white areas.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)SERIESLY!
Jack Rabbit
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Seriously, we should keep Mr. Santorum away from such instruments as the one depicted above. He may have amorous intentions toward anything that responds.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
saras
(6,670 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
saras
(6,670 posts)...i.e. listening devices they used to detect incoming aircraft before they had radar.
More acoustic locators at Douglas Self's Museum of Retro Technology
believe air craft existed (in the same time frame) to be detected w/ those devices. Sort of like Adam & Eve frolicking w/ dinosaurs.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)The GOP is so far off kilter; like a drunken whirling dervish on a stomach churning ride to hell .... The Wingnut electorate has already dismissed Rmoney and embraced Ricky Boy .... They have a death-hold on the GOP .... They are the albatross around Republican party necks ....
What a pity .... What a delightful pity ....
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)...he said, and I paraphrase, "talk to blah communities..."
Stupid lefty media, always trying to take unfair shots at conservatives by directly quoting them.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Did want to make black people better with other peoples money. He said it and he needs to take ownership. If he does not like biased reporting he surely should not like the statements he is saying.
stockholmer
(3,751 posts)start fanning proto-race war thematics.
divide et impera
Fuck this shite.
UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)Rick "Burn The Witches" Santorum for President
yardwork
(61,418 posts)Oh, I get it. Rick didn't mean minorities like the 1% and bankers and Wall Street. They can keep getting government handouts.
Rick means those other people. You know. The children who can starve to death while we keep giving all our money to bankers.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)all your tough talk in front of an audience of wingnut white folks, coward. i challenge you to bring your lily white ass to any minority community, you pos.
TatonkaJames
(530 posts)If white Americans (72%) have been and still are the largest segment of the population, it only figures.
http://www.google.com/webhp?sa=N&tab=lw#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=25&gs_id=2n&xhr=t&q=percentage+of+whites+on+food+stamps&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=percentqge+of+whites+on+f&aq=0l&aqi=g-l2&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=60ccd89290b0fb3&biw=1709&bih=983
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Could it be... satan???