Rafael Cruz: The ‘average Black’ doesn’t understand why the minimum wage is bad

[Galraedia]

Conservative activist Rafael Cruz argued that African-Americans need to be “educated” to oppose minimum wage laws, citing the work of a Black conservative member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, Buzzfeed reported.

“Jason Riley said in an interview, Did you know before we had minimum wage laws, Black unemployment and white unemployment were the same? If we increase the minimum wage, Black unemployment will skyrocket,” Cruz said during a speech to the Western Williamson County Republican Club in Texas last month. “See, he understands it, but the average Black does not.”

Riley and other conservatives have argued for years that minimum wage laws disproportionately affect the Black community. In 2011, Riley wrote that they “remain politically popular, especially among liberals enamored of wealth redistribution schemes.”

More recently, Riley criticized Attorney General Eric Holder in connection to the federal investigation into the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last month, saying Holder should tell people protesting against police there to “pull up their pants and finish school.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/02/rafael-cruz-the-average-black-doesnt-understand-why-the-minimum-wage-is-bad/

[rocktivity]

1. Rocktivity: The 'person with an average of two functioning brain cells'

understands why the minimum wage is bad


rocktivity

[JaneyVee]

2. Yes, there will be more employment....

An entire nation working for $2/hr. But hey, unemployment will be 3%!

[malaise]

3. Fuck that RW Cuban

asshole

[Scootaloo]

4. Well, technically it's true!

It's also true of any other ethnic group in America, and all of us together. Thing is... we're just not stupid enough to believe the minimum wage is bad, but we ARE smart enough to notice that it's a bunch of rich pirates telling us that it is.

[Skittles]

5. excellent response

[Scootaloo]

7. i mean REALLY

Republicans telling us the minimum wage exploits workers is like Ed Teach telling us that coastal patrols stifle honest commerce.

[Skittles]

16. you have a way with analogies!

[tanyev]

6. Oh, goody. Rafael explains it all.

[Fred Sanders]

8. We had this argument a century ago and you religious racist kooks lost. Get over it.

[lunasun]

9. +1 Exactly !!!!

[Initech]

10. I saw The Average Blacks at the Troubadour last weekend.

[Anansi1171]

11. Jason Riley be like...

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[Depaysement]

12. Riley

The man needs an education on the difference between correlation and causation.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. "Christian Dominionism/New Apostolic Reformation theology"

[onecaliberal]

14. Cruz can fuck off.

Not even a real American. Go the fuck home.

[erpowers]

15. The Average White American Should Be Pissed

I imagine some here will say my post is stupid, but I think the average white American should be pissed. So, white Americans are supposed to take a pay cut and be put in a position where their quality of life decreases just so more black Americans can have jobs. That seems to me to be a raw deal.

[daredtowork]

17. Does this count is Political "Woo"?

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo