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Mira

(22,694 posts)
Fri Dec 16, 2011, 09:06 PM Dec 2011

An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich From A Black Kid Who Grew Up In A Poor Neighborhood


An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich From A Black Kid Who Grew Up In A
Poor Neighborhood

Dear Newt Gingrich,
I recently saw you stand up in front of a group of people and allow some of the most 
idiotic, unfounded, racist, and ignorant words pass your lips that I’ve ever heard
from a member of a group of the most unqualified presidential candidates America
has ever seen.
To have the audacity to say that poor kids, and let’s be clear that’s republican speak
 for black and brown kids, “have no habits of working and nobody around them who
works” is not only an insult to me as black man who grew up in one of those “really
poor” neighborhoods you spoke of, but it’s an insult to my mother. And it’s an insult to
many other black, brown and white children, adults, and hard working parents(often single 
parents) who get up every single day to try to provide a better life for their children in 
poor neighborhoods.

As a child who grew up in Compton in the early 90′s, one of the most dangerous 
neighborhoods in America at that time, I watched my mother work tirelessly, sometimes juggling multiple jobs to provide for myself and my sister. Day in and day out like many other parents in poor neighborhoods, she did what she had to do in order to provide for us. You know what that turned into Mr. Gingrich?

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PS. You look like someone poured mashed potatoes into a suit

for all of it plus a video go to:

http://travonfree.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/an-open-letter-to-newt-gingrich-from-a-black-kid-who-grew-up-in-a-poor-neighborhood/

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An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich From A Black Kid Who Grew Up In A Poor Neighborhood (Original Post) Mira Dec 2011 OP
The people who agree with Mr Potato Head trouble me more. phasma ex machina Dec 2011 #1
Newt's ego is so big, Ilsa Dec 2011 #2

phasma ex machina

(2,328 posts)
1. The people who agree with Mr Potato Head trouble me more.
Fri Dec 16, 2011, 09:16 PM
Dec 2011

Newt's ego's so big that it red shifts.
Newt's ego's so big that it makes Rush seem timid.

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