PAUL RYAN’S VIEWS ABOUT AMERICAN POVERTY ARE FROM THE 1970’S

 

 

…Wisconsin Representative, and the 2012 GOP VP Candidate, Mr. Paul Ryan,

w/ his Budget that doesn't balance

 

Congressman Ryan now wants to bring back a 70's, Richard Roundtree character.

 

You all probably know the term, “Great minds think alike!”. 

Well, I won’t call my mind “great”, but in listening to what the liberal radio talker Randi Rhodes was saying earlier last week, it was like she was reading my mind.

We both were thinking about some of the stupid things that had recently come out of the Wisconsin GOP Representative, Paul Ryan’s mouth.  While listening to Mr. Ryan, we had both been unknowingly comparing his comments with an old movie from the 1970’s. 

 

Initially, I couldn’t remember the name of the movie, but when she mentioned it, it immediately came back to me, just as it had done for her.

The comments from Ryan actually makes one believe that, as she described it, he fantasizes that inner-city life consists of, “pimps wearing platform shoes with zebra-striped coats with the streets full of sassy black hookers with giant afros?” 

As she continued about to congressman, “[Ryan, I can see], there is this tough-as-nails black private eye walking the inner city streets.  But Ryan, you aren't talking about reality, you're talking about the 1975 movie, Shaft!” 

And that’s the exact same vision I had when listening to what Ryan’s views were of what he thought inner city life was today.

Ms. Rhodes went on describing in detail what Ryan’s views were.  And I could just see the private eye, played by Richard Roundtree, or Samuel L. Jackson, (depending on which Shaft movie you’re watching) and Shaft - the detective, walking the inner city streets while jiving to the Issac Hayes theme music.  Oh yes, I remember those movies very well.

Paul Ryan wants you to think that poverty is only in the inner cities, and they are all cesspools of black crime. Meanwhile, the real story is that in every section of the country, there is currently more rural poverty than there is inner city poverty. And the majority of that American poverty is with poor white people, not blacks. 

Conservatives want you to think that poverty is like something out of those old, dark, back street movies about blacks.  But, in reality, today’s American poverty is more like something out of Steinbeck’s, "The Grapes of Wrath."

It was amazing that after Ryan made his comments describing his view of inner city poverty, he then cites from where he gets these backward ideas.  He refers to his source as, Mr. Charles Murray, the author of “The Bell Curve”.  Now, Murray’s “The Bell Curve” book, actually believes that America’s poverty is in the inner city black community and it occurs because black people are genetically less intelligent than white people.  

And this is Ryan’s source…?

Ms. Rhodes then mentions, the black US Representative, Ms. Barbara Lee from Oakland, California's, 13th Congressional District.  In referring to Mr. Ryan, Rep. Lee said, "Let's be clear - When Mr. Ryan says 'inner city,' and when he says, 'culture,' these are simply code words for when he really means: 'black people.' " She went on to say Ryan's comments were simply, "a thinly veiled racial attack."

I’m sorry Ms. Lee, but Paul Ryan's ignorant comments were anything but thinly veiled.

What is really amazing is that this Republican Representative, Mr. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who just happens to also be the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, this guy is supposed to be the ”wonky intelligent one” of the GOP group in the US Congress

Right!!!!

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