Gingrich Says Obama Must Have “Cognitive Dissonance” About Plight of African-American Community

Newt wants to get slavery started again, put the black kids to work in the fields. What is wrong with paying the parents to be the janitor, and allowing them to train there own children. Every poor families children do not grow up to be a drug dealer, prostitute or a pimp. Poor people have morales. Newit does not understand the plight of the african american family.

@Lavina and what is that exactly? can you spell it out for us? You missed the entire point of the article and turned it into Newt wants to make us all slaves again. You are already a slave cause you are locked into a tiny world inside your own mind. Break out of it and do something. And no I am not some rich educated white woman. I did not go to college but, I have been working since I was 13, sometimes 2-3 jobs at a time but, I earn everything I have and have never expected anything from anyone. My mentality is, if I can dream it I can achieve it and at this point, with my highschool degree, I have climbed the ladder enough to be in my own condo, drive my own car, and still pay my bills, and by the way without 1 single credit card. I came from a 3rd world country knowing I could do for myself here what I couldn’t do back home and have done it without breaking any laws and actually contributing to society. Ask yourself How Can I Make My Life Better? then do it.

Democrats are worried that these kids might actually learn something, develop a work ethic, and leave the DEMOCRAT plantation. That is what keeps them up at night worrying.

Of course Newt has no cognitive dissonance while quite falsely claiming any of his proposed policies will help the African-American community in any way whatsoever. But Newt is so very honest…just ask his last wife.

Newt wants more Marshas.

Obama wants more Lavinas.

As Newt says, “It’s a choice between the party of paychecks (GOP) or the party of foodstamps (Democrats).

Dems and detractors will talk about Newt’s past and think it is relevant today (was Obama’s past relevant in 2008? Not so much…well, at least his publicized past, so much we still do not know). Voters are yearning for someone who exhibits leadership skills and intelligence than political skills, which is why Newt is rising in the polls.

How weak is Little Barry? Even Newt could beat him!

@ countryman- you kept repeating the same thing- we are started to discover people like you- all you do keep bashing Obama! it’s getting boring. Mit and Gingrish will not win. probably you’re one of the 99% which I am- I will vote for Obama again, since you’re one of the 99 pretend not to be, go and vote as the 1%.. Good luck to you

This guy is an embarrassing stain on American society. I bet his hands are as soft as the silk sheets on his very expensive bed. What an ass.

Obamabots: Where in the article does it state that Newt was specifically referring to African-Americans / Blacks is his dialogue (outside of stating ““at a time when you have up to 43% black teenage unemployment, you have entire communities that are devastated, you have neighborhoods where nobody has worked and nobody has any habit of work”? Note that it was Tapper who stated (inferred?) “You were talking about the African-American community.” (perhaps it was Tapper who was playing to racial stereotypes?).

Newsflash: The ethnic backgrounds of pimps, prostitutes, and drug dealers are not limited to the Black community. Given that liberals are notorious for lazily viewing the world through the lens of race (and due to their – in general – poor reading comprehension skills), it is no surprise that the libs immediate assume racism.

It is noted that no one disagrees with Newt’s assertion that there a significant sub-class of Americans who are virtually unemployable (well, in the private sector anyway) due to their lack skills and strong work ethic.

Newt does not know what is really going on in the black community. He never mentioned how education is the key to anyone’s success. He also did not even consider placing these kids in a white-collar environment to learn a work ethic.

I am a AA woman and I actually agree with the direction of his statement as a whole. It’s easy to call him a racist and ignore the fact that what he is saying is actually the truth. I grew up in a poor neighborhood and there were a lot of people who did not work or had no intention on working at all, while their children wore $120 Jordans and continued to fail their classes. Despite our surroundings my mother worked hard everyday and made sure that I did the same and eventually we left that world behind and I got a job as soon as I turned 15 and it has always made a difference in my work ethic. There is nothing wrong with teaching kids discipline they have it too easy rich and poor alike., however, the poor will only suffer because they don’t have parents to finance their laziness just the government.

What about the children who are not poor Gingrich? They must be so over-privileged that it would be unfair to give them the opportunity of….child labor??? Are you trying to say the parents who have a lot of money have children with stronger work ethics? The poor children don’t need a job but some of their parents need a job “Some of the things they could do is work in the library, work in the front office. Some of them frankly, could be janitorial.”
Gingrich notes that “the first counter-attack is ‘Do you realize how hard janitorial work is and do you realize how dangerous it is?’ I hope he does because it’s the truth. With issue like huffing inhalant popular among teens today, WHY would you leave them unattained to do janitorial work with a closet full of inhalants? I will also note the counter attack that ‘Adults will supervise them.’ First then let the adults do the job & furthermore I must say GET REAL! If that was the case teenage drug use wouldn’t even be around. Also imagine a fight between 2 teen …………………….. now imagine the fight if the school gave these 2 teens access to chemicals that can burn eyes & skin.
“Young children who are poor ought to learn how to go to work,” …..Ummm No. A lot of children know what work is. It’s the reason they have what little they have. It’s the reason why their moms & dads spend less time with them during the week during the school year. The reason why their parents are tired during the day: because their parents work nights to at least see their children in the after noon. Those parents want nothing but for their children to get an education that can get them a great career for better quality of living than the one that their parent could afford them….. I live in the inner city with my mother. My mother WORKS HARD & this is what she wants for me. She said, Frankly Newt, all this ‘be a child janitor’ BS you’re talking about gets in the way of focusing on what children are truly in school for, EDUCATION. In high school my dad helped me get a job, but I could only keep it as long as my grades stayed high. What’s my point:
EDUCATION IS WHAT REALLY MATTERS! IT HELPS PEOPLE GET BETTER JOBS THAN BEING A JANITOR!!
What I really want to know when are these inner city children suppose to work:
A. When they should be in class studying,
B. When they should be doing homework,
C. During the time that they usually take care of chores at home,
D. On the weekend, the two days (sometimes only one day or no days if there’s a weekend assignment or the child has an active hobby) they have off every week from their REAL JOB: SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL…

Want to give these kids a fighting chance, bring back after school programs with TEACHER & STUDENT VOLUNTEER TUTORS, LOWER COLLEGE TUITION FOR EVERYONE, & MAKE NEW DIVERSE JOB! Where I live everybody becomes a PCA or CNA (nurse) because they hire quick & easy. Just train for it & your in. Unfortunately I don’t want to be a nurse though I took the job. I want to make solar panels. I would appreciate if more tech jobs having to do with solar & clean energy were made in abundance across the country. Whoever does that & leaves child labor laws as they are gets my vote.

Although Newt is somewhat off base with his thoughts, he’s touched upon some points that may have been some of the most profound ideas that have been uttered out of the mouth of any politician over the last 40 years. As an black man who grew up in poverty and had very little chance to get an education, I found a way to overcome my challenges and become a productive citizen by first of all, working everyday to earn a living for myself. Too many other black folks have no role models to teach them about what it takes to become a viable working commodity. But here’s the problem that conservatives like Newt and others like him ignite when they address problems like this: They don’t put their money where their mouth is. I am a Workforce Development professional who has been laid off in Texas. Our wonderful governor has not made one single effort to allow people like myself–who have the skills– to create solutions for these sorts of problems. Instead, he hires his croonies to provide the leadership in Workforce capacities who have no understanding as to how we really can teach job education skills to the kids that Newt is referring to. I find it repulsive that our Workforce boards are comprised of all conservative-minded folks who also not in touch with the huge workforce-related deficientcies of of the urban community. If newt really want to know how we can start tackling these issues, he can contact me.

As a Black woman living in Detroit, Michigan, I say bravo, Newt. SOMEBODY needed to say it and I don’t care what color he is. HE IS SPEAKING THE TRUTH. Bill Cosby tried to say something about it and was ignored – BY US. But because a white guy said it, its a problem. WTH? No not all Black people in inner cities do illegal activities, of course that’s foolish to think, no one is saying that. However, you CANNOT DENY THE NUMBERS OF US THAT DO IN THE INNER CITY AND MOST OF THEM ARE OUR CHILDREN WHO HAVE NO WORK ETHIC. And yes, we have down played menial jobs to kids. I worked TWO fast food jobs as a teen and it helped my work ethic tremendously. But as I’ve gotten older, I have met people who are joining the work force for the first time at 25!! I DON’T CARE WHERE THE TRUTH COMES FROM AS LONG AS ITS HEARD. Newt 2012. Let’s get it.

I’m a black female who grew up in the inner city, got my first job at burger king my 12th grade year, went to college right after high school and earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting. I later obtained a certified public accountant’s license. I was raised by a single mother who taught me the importance of education and did not allow me to settle for less than my best. I feel I am successful because of the values that my mother instilled in me and I am not alone. The majority of my friends and family are productive members of society!! It greatly offends me to hear other blacks actually support what Newt is saying. It is the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard. Providing kids with low level paying jobs does not teach them good work ethics. Parents do, the community does, mentors do. Kids want to do better when it has been instilled in them to do better. If it hasn’t then most likely they aren’t. It starts at home, so if the parent’s not working, then that’s who they need to push to work these jobs and make it mandatory if they are receiving assistance.

One thing I know for sure from working as a tax auditor is that discrimination does exist in the work place. Herman Cain like most lying politicians who don’t tell the whole truth or no truth for their own self serving interest was partially right, Racism is not holding back blacks in MAJOR corporations. He failed to mention that most employers are made up of small businesses. Of course a fortune 500 company is not going to have a problem hiring and promoting some minorities when they have a staff of 500. But go in to any small to midsize company in America and tell me how many minorities you see in the front office or back for that matter. I ended up working for the government, the only true equal opportunity employer after applying for a job at several private firms which were all 99% plus white. I have audited 100s of small businesses and have yet to see any minorities in administration and depending on the area sometimes none in the plant. So no we shouldn’t allow racism to hold us back or use it as an excuse, but please don’t be ignorant or forget where you came from. It angers me when I hear blacks spouting some of the same stereotypes that you hear from whites. It’s like anytime it’s anything negative or controversial it’s the norm and to be expected, but if it’s positive it’s an exception. Well if you know it’s not true for you or the majority of people you know why would you believe it is true for the majority, as if you are the exception. I know I’m not an exception. I know plenty of hardworking successful blacks and if Newt is implying that only blacks have weak work ethics and directing these jobs at young blacks as if whites who are more privileged don’t, I’ll pass!!! As blacks we need to get back to that village mentality and start volunteering in our community and schools to help the youth that are not getting help at home and push for the adults who are not working to get their acts together!!!!

Work ethic is a major problem that I see in young people today but it is by no meant isolated to one race or socioeconomic group. I say have all kids rotate through a job a school. I think the snotty little rich kids could learn a thing or two from an honest job.

First of all, black youth unemployment was orchastrated about two decades ago when local city, county and state government cut out the summer youth program, which so-called ‘inner city youth’ too well advantage of, in addition to their parents teaching them about office automation. I know, because I work for local city government. Now, only internships and parks and recreation and certain city, county, and state departments offer youth summer employment. The truth of the matter is that there are no jobs for the youth. I am sick and tired of these politicians straight lying to the American general public. What is the purpose of debating President Obama on the subject when it is actually a state issue, not the federal government.