Current Events > GOP Candidate trying to appeal to black voters: Stop begging for Gov't scraps

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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/406774-gop-senate-candidate-booed-after-saying-african-americans-beg-for-federal?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Republican Senate candidate Chris McDaniel was booed by a crowd during a live taping of "Morning Joe" on Friday after saying that African Americans have spent 100 years "begging for federal government scraps."

The comment from the GOP candidate came during a segment of the MSNBC show taped at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Panelist Eddie Glaude Jr. asked McDaniel about his stance on the Confederate flag, saying that 38 percent of Mississippi residents are black while asking McDaniel how he would appeal to those voters and convince them "you are not a danger to them."

"I'm going to ask them, after 100 years of relying on big government to save you, where are you today?" McDaniel said. "After 100 years of begging for federal government scraps, where are you today?

MAGAs gonna MAGA
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A racist republican? Must be Saturday
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well they shouldn't rely on big government
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Oof it's like a trainwreck.
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Blue_Inigo posted...

A racist republican? Must be Saturday

He has a point. Living welfare check to welfare check isn't the way out of poverty.
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The Republican Party needs to have a seminar to teach its members the difference between things you can think and things you can say.
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jpenny2 posted...

The Republican Party needs to have a seminar to teach its members the difference between things you can think and things you can say.

If someone wants to have an entire population pissed off at them then I say more power to them
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Why does the GOP seem to be a safe space for anti black mannerisms and opinions?
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FrisbeeDude posted...

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/406774-gop-senate-candidate-booed-after-saying-african-americans-beg-for-federal?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Republican Senate candidate Chris McDaniel was booed by a crowd during a live taping of "Morning Joe" on Friday after saying that African Americans have spent 100 years "begging for federal government scraps."

The comment from the GOP candidate came during a segment of the MSNBC show taped at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Panelist Eddie Glaude Jr. asked McDaniel about his stance on the Confederate flag, saying that 38 percent of Mississippi residents are black while asking McDaniel how he would appeal to those voters and convince them "you are not a danger to them."

"I'm going to ask them, after 100 years of relying on big government to save you, where are you today?" McDaniel said. "After 100 years of begging for federal government scraps, where are you today?

MAGAs gonna MAGA

This candidate is a terrible person, but MAGA has nothing to do with his comments.
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jpenny2 posted...

The Republican Party needs to have a seminar to teach its members the difference between things you can think and things you can say.

They tried to do this with Papa John and dude dropped the Hard R that got him fired in that meeting
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Republican candidate tries to woo African-Americans. You will believe what happens next!

FrisbeeDude posted...

after saying that African Americans have spent 100 years

...improving their quality of life?

You can truly convince a conservative of anything, even if it's "black people were better off 100 years ago".

I grew up (shit still here) in a Conservative exurb county and the amount of Republicans/Conservatives who genuinely lack the ability to not talk down to black folk on anything is almost comical.
also good for a laugh is the black folk actually on government assistance vote at fairly low levels any way and the backbone of black voters are genuinely more middle class , so it's not even a good selling point.
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