You nailed it. The percentage basis may be more leaning out of the black population, but since percentage-wise whites are a greater number, nationally,their percentage is smaller. Poverty due to lack of intellectual capacity or local opportunity or laziness (one may argue such the same as intellectual capacity deficiency) knows no favorite race, only personal characteristics, that of those who don’t adequately plan ahead, are only willing to work to a level they feel “comfortable” with, and usually don’t save, but rather participate in indebtedness, living beyond their means. I see it all the time. Most people deny it being their fault, they are simply inexplicably “victims”, and never fully realize and admit it is their own shortcomings that have caused it. I am of course talking about adults, not their offspring…..which is something the really already poor, should not produce. You know, poverty is indeed a cancer, and few people are willing to accept, acseed to, acknowledge truth regardless of how harsh, and comprehend why it happens, and be outspoken about it in public….since it is indeed being “politically incorrect”. That manner of speaking started with another abandoned child, Bill Clinton. Why is america voting for abandoned children for president?

Newt Gingrich, and his race-baiting ilk, have no problem with the government taking money from a middle class family and giving it to multi-millionaires to fly around in private jets, but are incensed when that same middle class family suddenly needs money to buy a jar of baby food and a can of soup.

Just for grins, Leonard, try to see the world without looking at everything through a racial prism. You’d be surprised how much different it looks and you might find Republicans are far more color blind than the party you currently support. ‘Code words’ are a Democrat invention. Heck, this little paragraph is probably full of them if you are predisposed to finding them.

Leonard Pitts is guilty of exactly what he accuses South Carolinians of doing. “They applaud because they understand he is saying … ‘Elect me and I will get these black people’s hands out of your pocket’”. From Pitt’s perspective, anything that has any linkage to blacks must be construed as racist even when, as Pitts himself points out, there is equally as much linkage to whites. That doesn’t mean Gingrich wasn’t playing to his crowd by deliberately taking advantage of how he anticipated they would interpret his words. But here’s some news: All politicians do that when campaigining, no matter who they are speaking to and no matter what they are speaking about. Like Pitts, I also worked at an early age for not much pay – in my dad’s plumbing shop for $2 a day when I was 11 or 12 years old. I believe opportunities and responsibilities like that, which came from my parents early on, were instrumental in establishing my own work ethic. My friends growing up all were from working-class families and as kids we were always looking for ways to earn money. Exposure to that kind of environment leads to that highly-praised ethic. If Gingrich meant his statement to be a racial slur, then shame on him. But if it’s just taken to be one by blacks and white bigots, that’s on them.

As Greg Gutfeld said “they can’t be “code words” if everyone already knows what they mean”. The fact that there are now 46 million Americans on food stamps, and there were 32 million when Obama took office is a fact, not racism. Both Obama and Nancy Pelosi have said that food stamps and unemployment checks boost the economy.
Enough said.

Some of you need to come out of your “fantasy worlds.” The president, nor Ms. Pelosi never said that foodstamps and unemployment boosts the economy. It’s just what you elect to believe. By the way Gingrich most certainly meant for his statement to be a racial slur, just that today he tries to do it in a covert manner. That “white ” audience reacted that way because they hold those views. No doubt, most of them were sitting in their churches on the following Sunday singing hymns, praying, and listening to sermons about the Love of God, but leaving the church with their same racist and destructive views. South Carolina has one of the highest poverty rates in the entire country, where is the connection for their conservatism when they have that dillema? By the way, to the individual who states that Mr. Pitts looks at the world through a “racial prism,” in the words of the Late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” “I guess it’s easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say wait.”