Saturday, October 03, 2015

#BUSHLEAGUE

One day after Pope Francis issued a unifying moral call to action in his historic address to Congress, we are back to the pettiness and partisanship of the Republican candidates for President. Thursday night, Jeb Bush told a South Carolina crowd that Democrats play to African-American voters by offering “free stuff.”

Reminder: basically nobody gets more free stuff than the child and brother of presidents, except maybe Bush under his own tax plan. More importantly, Jeb has pledged to be a unifying candidate, but this comment reinforces that his record has been anything but unifying. He has been dismissive of the injustices that drives the Black Lives Matter movement.

As Governor of Florida, Jeb signed the first-in-the-nation Stand Your Ground law, which had a particularly devastating impact for African Americans. Jeb also disproportionately hurt African Americans when he banned affirmative action in 2000. Jeb Bush may think his message to black voters is uplifting, but his record and positions haven’t given the African American community the ‘right to rise.’

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