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I don’t think it will be a surprise to you that Jack Davis is a Republican. But man, the masks these creeps have on drop so fast these days – Haley Barbour’s GOP moonshine must have replaced the GOP Kool-Aid.
Congressional candidate Jack Davis shocked local Republican leaders in a recent interview when he suggested that Latino farmworkers be deported — and that African-Americans from the inner city be bused to farm country to pick the crops.Several sources who were in the Feb. 20 endorsement interview with Davis confirmed his comments, which echo those he made to the Tonawanda News in 2008, when he said: “We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there [to the farms] and pay them a decent wage; they will work.”
…”I was thunderstruck,” said Amherst GOP Chairman Marshall Wood. “Maybe in 1860 that might have been seen by some as an appropriate comment, but not now.”
When you shock the state GOP chair, it might be time to rethink running. Then again this is the race to
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How Black Do You Have to Be to Qualify?Very weird. He could have said something like this–
‘We are giving visas to foreign workers instead of creating a temp job program for unemployed Americans. Let’s set up bus transportation from inner cities to farms, hire young people looking for their first job, and give them a start.’
There’s a lot of unemployed youth out there, if he focused on employment instead of race he would have come across as sane, but maybe too liberal for his base.
LOL
Sad, but true.
Whatever the motivation –whether it’s his actual way of thinking or an appeal to his base — it reveals a mindset that’s pretty awful. To frame it in your terms means you have to be thinking positively. There’s been nothing positive about Republican thinking for a while now — they’re not for anything, they’re just against everything, and they hate everyone who’s not just like them — which is most of us.
Whatever the motivation –whether it’s his actual way of thinking or an appeal to his base — it reveals a mindset that’s pretty awful. To frame it in your terms means you have to be thinking positively. There’s been nothing positive about Republican thinking for a while now — they’re not for anything, they’re just against everything, and they hate everyone who’s not just like them — which is most of us.
ImpairedIt’s a kind of impaired thinking where people are seen only in terms of race– talking to farmers and discussing why they can’t or won’t hire locally is too complicated.
Easier to assume they need brown people to pick their crops. Easier to assume that unemployed black youth are different from unemployed white youth, or older people for that matter. Easier than addressing the real barriers to employment, and safer–
because if workers started organizing around their common interests who knows where that would end up?
In New York State, of all placesexactly what does this asshat mean by deporting “Latinos”?
That would include Puerto Ricans, right? (But then some Puerto Ricans are black, so I guess those would be the inner city PR’s)
I so confused.
*eyeroll*The GOP leadership was only ‘shocked’ because they assumed everyone knew that those things were only supposed to be talked about where the public can’t hear.