Gene Sperling on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on February 6, 2006 - 9:50am.
on Race and Identity

As a former economic advisor to President Clinton, he was there to speak on economic issues. As usual, a number of citizens of the Confederate States of America called in to share their...special world view.

Normally, the guests just don't speak to that world view. But this time...

...he actually said something. Even better, he said it correctly. He named everyone, and didn't futz with people's symbols (which was Howard Dean's "pickup truck" error).

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Submitted by Quaker in a Basement on February 6, 2006 - 2:23pm.

Women "with 20 children" who are capable of working? Ohhhhhkay.

And good on the guest for saying to the caller straight out: "Shame on you."

Submitted by ptcruiser on February 6, 2006 - 4:18pm.
Sounds like that woman should cop a ride with the welfare queen that Ronald Reagan saw driving a Cadillac.
Submitted by GDAWG on February 6, 2006 - 9:01pm.
The caller is typical of the red states' peasants, who can be as viscious, and blinded by their own ignorance and lower caste state of being, in a real sense.
Submitted by Quaker in a Basement on February 8, 2006 - 11:44am.
"The caller is typical of the red states' peasants,"

GDAWG, I grew up among these. From listening to her, I'd guess she's upper middle class, economically, but just as you say--a peasant--intellectually.
Submitted by ptcruiser on February 8, 2006 - 11:58am.
I don't believe the caller is upper-middle class. Listen to her speech pattern, pronounciation and choice of words again. She is barely in the middle-class and she probably  didn't grow up in a genuinely middle-class household.
Submitted by GDAWG on February 8, 2006 - 12:22pm.
For me, the woman is the personafication of a hate and hate! It seems the hate is visceral for her.
Submitted by ptcruiser on February 8, 2006 - 12:29pm.
...and her animosity towards black people doesn't really have anything to do with black women being on welfare.
Submitted by Quaker in a Basement on February 8, 2006 - 3:45pm.
OK, ptc. I took your advice and listened again.

She uses words like: inherited, rectify, subsidized, and mockery. She also follows the rules of grammar pretty well. She has a strong accent, but one that's typical of white Alabama.

I stick with my original diagnosis. She's a yahoo, but an economically comfortable yahoo.

As I say, ptc, I know these people better than I'd like to. I think she belongs to the cohort that passes for "decent folks" in upper-middle class Alabama. Of course, we'll never get to find out which one of us is right, will we?
Submitted by ptcruiser on February 8, 2006 - 4:02pm.
I'll concede your point.  I had forgotten that we were discussing upper-middle class white folks in Alabama. That is a whole 'nother ball game.
Submitted by GDAWG on February 8, 2006 - 7:39pm.
I don'T concede. What we have is the example of white folk that, at American Spectator, has been writing about for the latest isssue. The white working class! That is, white folks who, because of their whiteness, are able to pimp black folks, to save their skins!!!!!!!!! Please look at the most recent issue of the " AMERICAN SPECTATOR "to sustain my response.
Submitted by GDAWG on February 8, 2006 - 7:45pm.
Haters or pushing Hatred. And I'm okay with that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by ptcruiser on February 8, 2006 - 8:09pm.
Please look at the most recent issue of the " AMERICAN SPECTATOR "to sustain my response.


Are you really going to force me to buy that piece of crap magazine?
Submitted by GDAWG on February 8, 2006 - 10:28pm.
No. Black Electorate had it hooked up for a free piece that discussed the white working class and their allegiance to Bush.

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