Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., had an interesting Sunday column. It is recommended reading.
Leonard Pitts: Public silence greets poor’s powerlessness
If he’d said it of Jews, he would still be apologizing.
If he’d said it of blacks, he’d be on BET, begging absolution.
If he’d said it of women, the National Organization for Women would have his carcass turning slowly on a spit over an open flame.
But he said it of the poor, so he got away with it.
“He” is South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer, running for governor on the GOP ticket. Speaking of those who receive public assistance, he recently told an audience, “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.”
I am interested in your reflections – please leave them in the comments.
Posted by Kristina Scott
Tags: contempt, poverty, powerlessness, society
I am amazed at the lack of compassion this man has. I am even more amazed that he doesn’t care.
I’ll let Jim Hightower answer this via a TruthDig offering one as my response will be too profane. Please see http://bit.ly/d9IeYQ
Hightower uses humor but I’m thinking about putting a boot to the behind of Georgia’s http://www.johnlinder.com/ should I ever cross his path. I’m guessing Uncle Sam helped put him through dental school but then HE built his lending empire. He and his ilk use basic right wing producerism and market populism built now around even worse economic circumstances.
They have little if any shame but I’ll be fighting for the poor until my days are done. Rascals like this Bauer buffoon haven’t gotten away with anything yet.