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To: i-node who wrote (762275)	1/8/2014 2:26:28 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574683

"It seems to me the concept predates significantly the slavery issue." Really? Negro slaves were present well before the founding of our country. Washington had 316 slaves. He inherited 10 when he was 12 years old. Slaves built the capitol. So were slave and free states: en.wikipedia.org

To: i-node who wrote (762275)	1/8/2014 2:31:36 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574683

The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” thenation.com "We want to cut this,” is much more abstract", especially when "this" is food stamps from "the foodstamp president".