MSNBC Guest: Old White Seniors Distrust Obama Because of Race
Posted by Gateway Guest Blogger on Sunday, August 19, 2012, 11:09 PM
By: Rachel Pulaski
Vice President of Policy and Outreach at the Progressive think tank Demos.org Heather McGhee made an appearance on MSNBC’s show “Up With Chris Hayes” this weekend. She attacked older white seniors for their lack of support for Obama’s medicare plan and made Obama’s race the reason for their discontent.
Mediaite reported:
Via Mediaite:
“There is an inability for white seniors to trust Barack Obama on Medicare,” she continued, “and it doesn’t have anything to do with the policies that he’s put out. It has to do with the demographics –”
“I like the way you’re using the word ‘demographics,’” Hayes interrupted. “You mean race.”
“Well, yes, I’m sorry. By no means am I afraid to use the word ‘race,’” she responded. “It has to do with race, and it has to do with familiarity and has to do with the fact that, in 2010, the Republican Tea Party ran on cuts to Medicare that were in the ACA.”
For the record, Seniors are skeptical of Obama because under Obamacare they have less access to physicians, higher taxes and fewer plan choices.
In 2008 49% of voting Seniors voted for Obama.
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dwd commented:
She supports him because of race. What’s the difference?
Oliver commented:
I wondered how long it would take for all the race cards to be pulled out of the deck again. Too bad they’ve already beat this theme to death.
Like the little boy who cried wolf too often, nobody’s buying it any more!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
I’m actually kind of surprised that she didn’t use the word “n’r”, just for effect, and to continue the latest DNC television fad.
So… there’s that at least going for her.
So far.
bg commented:
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i say lets start agreeing with them, really,
where can they possibly go from there??
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Taqiyyotomist commented:
…the Republican Tea Party…
Yet another misrepresentation of the Tea Party, and the second-most common, just behind “the Tea Party is racist”, which she also uses.
bg commented:
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“Every day, young Americans search for meaningful, full-time jobs in a
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JR commented:
I hate Al Gore, Jon Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid just as much as Obama, and they’re all white! I don’t hate Obama because he’s black – I hate him for his hyper-partisanship, and his stupid socialistic leanings. And his incompetency. (see: Egypt falls into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood; Solyndra; GM; Inspector General Walpin, Fast and Furious; $15trillion debt and climbing; etc., etc.)
AuntieMadder commented:
What a disgusting accusation.
bg commented:
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April 5, 2010
Tea Party demographics
Democrats are members of the Tea Party too at 41%.
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bg commented:
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More Blacks Supported Tea Party Movement
Than Support #Occupy Movement 11/26/11
[Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would resonate with black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for whites. And between 2005 and 2009, black households lost just over half of their median net worth compared with white families, who lost 16 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.
However, these numbers have not translated into action. A few prominent African Americans, such as Cornel West, Russell Simmons, Kanye West and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), have made appearances at Occupy protests. “Occupy the Hood,” a recent offshoot, has tried to get more people of color involved. But the main movement remains overwhelmingly white: A Fast Company survey last month found that African Americans, who are 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.]
go figure, and we certainly do..
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MrGoodWench commented:
Well he did kill his typical white grandma , so……
Redwine commented:
The race card – it’s ALL they’ve got. So the Left thinks.
The problem with that is none of it is true and that they are the racists.
jainphx commented:
No I hate him because he’s a traitor. I hate him because he’s trying to destroy this country and our way of life. I hate him for his depictions with his nose in the air and a halo around his head. You see he actually thinks he’s a god. I hate him because he’s a racist along with Holder. I many hate him because he’s a liar. Color has nothing to do with it. Racism resides in the Demoncrapic party. They are the only ones that see color, we on the other hand see talent, and and capability, it makes no difference what color.
bg commented:
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John F. Kennedy speaks to the Tea Party from the grave
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A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
“There is an inability for white seniors to trust Barack Obama on Medicare,” she said.
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Well, she over-qualified the statement (and, besides, she did that weird backhanded passive-voice thing, which I find awkward, not-to-mention seriously annoying). Let me rephrase it for the little liberal dingbat: “White seniors –well, actually American citizens in general, no matter their ethnicity, their age, their religion, or any other demographic marker– have a great deal of difficulty in trusting Barack Obama on *ANYTHING* he says. Those who pay attention have heard his flowery orations and then seen the reality of his actions. They realize that this guy outdoes George Orwell and his famous Newspeak quotations (‘War is Peace’; ‘Freedom is Slavery’; ‘Ignorance is Strength’) by a mile. They also realize that “1984″ was just a novel; while the alleged Constitutional Scholar we elected to the Presidency is actively trampling our rights and freedoms and Constitutional protections every damn chance he gets.”
Sigh. I’m betting nobody in the MFMSM is going to use my clarification, are they?
Rachelle commented:
Not trusting a black Communist is clearly racism…unless, of course, we just don’t like Commies.
Never mind, everything is racism.
Kathteach commented:
To say that our nation’s elderly are “racist” is just perpetuating a stereotype. I wish the speaker at hand here – Heather McGee – could defend the fact that it was the Democratic Party – in particular – the Southern Democratic Party faction – (Think Dem. Senator Robert Byrd) – that fought the Civil Rights legislation that Martin Luther King, Jr. ended up literally “sheriffing” in towns like Birmingham, Alabama and Memphis, Tennessee and more towns and places before he was assassinated…..the South had lots of laws about segregation (you know – no separate water bubblers or diners or hotel accommodations) but – even though the Supreme Court mandated an end to it, it took MLK and – sometimes the National Guard – to force them to get with the moral reality of America. Thank God for MLK..the btter angel Lincoln talked about way back in the day.
Sure – LBJ signed the law. But just signing a law back in those days meant little before MLK made a difference. And he was a Republican. AS was Lincoln – you know – the American President who signed thew Emancipation Proclamation and almost tore our country apart with a dedication to a Civil War to be fought over the end of slavery against the interests of the Southern slave holders?
Come on – folks. Aren’t we beyond these lame racial stereotypes?
I personally know at least twenty “over 70″ seniors on Medicare who are wildly pro-Civil Rights because they always were in the way they raised their families and the way they voted.
Some liberal African American folks need to get a better education – that’s all I can say.
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