I like these terms better than “racism,” a word largely depleted of its value. I’m not talking about mere bigotry, which can be exhibited by anyone of any race, creed, gender, etc.; rather, I mean to focus on racial power.

Many conservative Republicans offer a perverse logic of social welfare and its black recipients, that it is comparable, or ever worse, than slavery. The freedom to eat, to feed one’s child, they contend.

Not thugs?
http://youtu.be/0QHcXtEVdag?t=10s

Sterling says as much in the extended tape leaked on Sunday, April 27.

http://youtu.be/1tof8ty3xzY?t=2m45s

A petition in support of Robertson garnered an unbelievable 250,000 signatures. The Facebook support page has more than 800,000 likes.

#“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro…”

Uh oh, here we go.

About black people he saw one time in Las Vegas:

…in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.

Watch Maddow break it down here.

The blacks worked for the farmers…They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

Once they were afforded even the most basic economic securities, in other words. When they worked as sharecroppers and abjectly poor laborers at the mercy of white farmers (in the plantation tradition), things were great for them, says Robertson. And once they were freed from those conditions, that’s when the trouble started.

Says this guy, who conservative whites fell in love with: