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We all know the story. Republican says that welfare is like....*drumroll* Slavery!!! Yes! Its just like Slavery minus the raping, killing, kidnapping, Shackles, Chains and stuff...but Just like it!! Some day Republicans will realize that comparing stuff to Slavery is just a bad a faux pas as comparing something to Hitler and Nazi Germany...
'Cept that happened to white people so its really worst than 400 years of slavery because...you know *wink*
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Brown-To-Congress/1395712604018604
Here's Jim Brown Canidate Hopeful
Arizona Republican Compares Government Spending to Slavery - The Root
He's since removed it citing he wasnt "careful" with his wording. That old chestnut. *winky wink*
'Cept that happened to white people so its really worst than 400 years of slavery because...you know *wink*
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Brown-To-Congress/1395712604018604
Here's Jim Brown Canidate Hopeful
In a post on his Facebook page that wasin theory, anywayabout federal spending, Jim Brown, whos running in Arizonas 2nd Congressional District, compared modern-day entitlements to slavery. But even more disturbing, perhaps, he denied that slavery was, first and foremost, a brutally violent institution:
Back in the day of slavery, slaves were kept in slavery by denying them education and opportunity while providing them with their basic needs .. Not by beating them and starving them. (Although there were isolated cases if course) Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along.
This flies in the face, of course, of all credible historical accounts, including the recent Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. Browns comments, therefore, not only make him sound woefully ill-informed butmore troubling for Republicansalso make him and his party sound extreme, rendering him a potentially toxic candidate in a winnable district.
The seat that hes seeking is currently held by Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. But she barely won re-election in 2012, which makes her a prime, and realistic, Republican target for 2014but only if the party offers a viable candidate with less-odious views.
In an era in which mixed-race families are the fastest-growing demographic in the nation, 2012 black-voter turnout surpassed that of other demographic groups, Latinos are the fastest-growing demographic of voters in the country and a film about slavery wins best picturein part because of its unflinching depiction of the institutions brutalityBrowns revisionist notions wont be considered mainstream enough to win elections.
The real question, for Republicans, continues to be this: Can a party that attracts candidates who continually make racially inflammatory remarks ever hope to attract black and brown voters?
In a word? No.
Arizona Republican Compares Government Spending to Slavery - The Root
He's since removed it citing he wasnt "careful" with his wording. That old chestnut. *winky wink*