Wow, wow, wow...Newt Gingrich: 'I will tell black people to demand paychecks instead of food stamps'
Newt Gingrich says he plans to "go to the NAACP convention and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps."
Gingrich made the comments during a town hall in Plymouth, New Hampshire, according to a tweet from Slate writer Dave Weigel.
Gingrich has repeatedly referred to President Barack Obama as a "food stamp president", and has said he'd tackle black teen unemployment by easing child labor laws so that poor kids can work as janitors in their schools, replacing union workers.
He has also said that children in poor neighborhoods have no role models for work, and no concept of getting paid, unless it's for something illegal. He has proposed turning school children from poor neighborhoods into apprentice school janitors, replacing union workers.
A 2009 study found that 1 in 8 Americans, and 1 in 4 children -- of all races -- received food assistance, in the wake of the 2007 recession. The study found that 28 percent of blacks, 15 percent of Hispanics, and 8 percent of whites, received food assistance that year.
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/newt-gingrich-i-will-tell-black-people-to-demand-work-instead-of-welfare.php
I guess white folks on welfare & food stamps is a-okay!
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still already gone is gone for good!
Negroes are lazy annd shiftless, not shiftless and lazy.
Nor are all WP. Of course this is most likely a dog whistle but you could look at it like this: perhaps Newt was saying he's gonna provide work for people so they don't HAVE to be on stamps. What I find distasteful is that he called Obama the "food stamp President." That sounds designed to link (pardon the pun) Obama as a Black man to welfare. The only reason so many are on food stamps is because of what occurred BEFORE!!!! 
already gone is gone too soon
Filthy racists...all of them.
the repubs have decided the only way to be even competitive in the upcoming election is to go completely racist, COMPLETELY racist.
No more coded language, dog-whistle tactics, it is now full-on racism for them.
Who's next? Samoans? 
That man isn't human, he's...he's....a MONSTER!!!!
santorum was talking about those "blah" people, certainly not black people because he doesn't even use the term "black"...he uses african-american. except for when he talked about helping historically BLACK colleges, right after he said he didn't use the term black 
somoans are probably "blah" people too, but certainly not black
Each and every one of them outing themselves as the bigots they are.
N-head
At the time, the Republicans were the far-left party. That was when they were literally the Party of Lincoln.
150 years later, the very same play book.
Forget who said that, but !
Awesome!
And he offends the living shit out of me, even long before any of that happened to me.
I now live in South Central Los Angeles due to my low level of income. The area is full of genuinely good people but as a community it is in dire need of help (I'm just visiting so I'm of course not truly qualified to speak for anyone, but I do wish for a higher level of everything good out here). I volunteer to take Newtie on a nice, friendly tour of South Central so he can meet the people he is addressing, and so THEY can present to him, questions and observations which may bring to Newt a certain level of enlightenment. I believe that would be interesting and educational for everyone. Get in touch with me Newt, we'll take the walking tour and after that, go to skid row downtown for more enlightenment. Don't forget to bring jobs for everyone so everyone can start demanding paychecks! 
and housing assistance. Whites receive 34 percent of those benefits, African-Americans 22 percent, and Hispanics 17 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Meanwhile, a 2009 study found that 1 in 8 Americans, and 1 in 4 children -- of all races -- received food assistance, in the wake of the 2007 recession. And the study found that 28 percent of blacks, 15 percent of Hispanics, and 8 percent of whites, received food assistance that year.
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/santorum-in-iowa-wont-make-black-peoples-lives-better-with-welfare.php
I'm sure you meant well though...
that they need to demand paychecks instead of food stamps...brilliant 
Everything the Republicans want to do either cuts jobs, prevents job creation, or cuts people's hours/income.
Blah Panthers
Not that we didn't already know this, but still.
The race to the bottom for the GOP nomination continues...
that would go over well with Newt and his crowd right?
