It's mind boggling to me that people don't see it. The liberal Democratic policies over the last 50 years have been an utter disaster for the black community. However good intentioned these policies may be when they were adopted the result has been catastrophic to the black community.
I believe that people should be judged by their merits and not the color of their skin. Democrats don't. Liberals don't.
Because I don't want to enslave people (of any color) with a lifestyle of entitlement and dependency which is exactly what happens when these programs are available without end and without condition except that you are poor. We are subsidizing poverty by giving people section 8 housing, food stamps, and welfare etc..
I have no problem with giving people help when they really need it but to give them a standard of living through entitlements only locks them into poverty instead of providing enough incentive to get out of it.
These are not universal and I'm sure there are people who use entitlements as they should and do get out of poverty. My point is when you make the shit hole as comfortable as possible more people will decide to stay in it.
Democrats tend to favor policies that disproportionally affect blacks negatively.
This isn't to say that there aren't racist Republicans, of course there are.
As if living on welfare is a permanent condition, as if it's really a cushy gig, as if unemployment isn't hovering around 8%, much higher for blacks, as if you're not just diverting from what the author had to say.
I doubt you've read it at all, given that your first response was only 2 minutes after the original post...
I'm pretty sure most people of any color would much rather be dependent on employment than on the welfare state, so, uhh, what are those magical & mystical Jerb Creators doing about that, anyway, other than looting existing companies, pushing employment offshore, automating everything they can?
Of course there are racist Repubs, generally concentrated in the South, which is what the author is talking about. Racism is, after all, a very "conservative" value... practiced extensively in "conservative" parts of the country, just as it always has been.