FROM FREAK OUT NATION, RAW STORY
Awkward: Black Republican Woman confronts Priebus, GOP treats African Americans like “we don’t exist”
At Wednesday’s 2013 Republican National Committee Summer Meeting, an African-American woman stood up to ask RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich what the Republican Party was doing to connect with her community.
She said, “I live in a world that’s different from most of the people that’s in this RNC and it’s like we don’t exist.”
The woman continued, “I mean, everybody’s talking about Hispanics but African-Americans built this country, and continue to be ignored by everybody. And since we’re no longer the largest minority, we get pushed to the bottom.”
“Are you really listening to the people who are being pushed down, who are being disenfranchised” she said, “who don’t have a pot to whatever in and a window to throw it out of?” The woman continued, “Because I don’t hear their voices resonating, not in this party, but I don’t hear them in the Democratic Party either. I hear the Democrats saying to us, let us lead you to stay where you are. What we have to do is offer them some hope to be better than they are.”
Mediaite reports, “Gingrich handled the answer himself, leaving Priebus mostly silent on the issue. “I would just suggest to you,” Gingrich told the woman, “we ought to be in the business of liberating every African-American, every Asian-American, every Latino-American small business man or woman.”
Raw Story reports, “Gingrich also pointed out that if every person using public housing in New York City was allowed to earn and own their apartment then they would all be millionaires and would join the Republican Party.”
So is he saying that the Republican party is for millionaires only, or is he saying…oh, I give up.
The entire conversation needs to be heard.
Watch courtesy of Raw Story:
My question to her would be: Why are you a Republican?
She said, “I live in a world that’s different from most of the people that’s in this RNC and it’s like we don’t exist.”
The woman continued, “I mean, everybody’s talking about Hispanics but African-Americans built this country, and continue to be ignored by everybody. And since we’re no longer the largest minority, we get pushed to the bottom.”
“Are you really listening to the people who are being pushed down, who are being disenfranchised” she said, “who don’t have a pot to whatever in and a window to throw it out of?” The woman continued, “Because I don’t hear their voices resonating, not in this party, but I don’t hear them in the Democratic Party either. I hear the Democrats saying to us, let us lead you to stay where you are. What we have to do is offer them some hope to be better than they are.”
Mediaite reports, “Gingrich handled the answer himself, leaving Priebus mostly silent on the issue. “I would just suggest to you,” Gingrich told the woman, “we ought to be in the business of liberating every African-American, every Asian-American, every Latino-American small business man or woman.”
Raw Story reports, “Gingrich also pointed out that if every person using public housing in New York City was allowed to earn and own their apartment then they would all be millionaires and would join the Republican Party.”
So is he saying that the Republican party is for millionaires only, or is he saying…oh, I give up.
The entire conversation needs to be heard.
Watch courtesy of Raw Story:
My question to her would be: Why are you a Republican?
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