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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel was booed by a live MSNBC audience on Friday after he said African-Americans from his home state of Mississippi should stop "begging for federal government scraps."
McDaniel and other Senate candidates were interviewed on the "Morning Joe" show during its live broadcast at the University of Mississippi.
An interview panelist asked McDaniel about his support for the controversial state flag, comments about hip-hop music contributing to gun violence and praise of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The panelist, Eddie Glaude, also asked McDaniel how he would speak to African-Americans in Mississippi, who make up 38 percent of the state's population and how he would convince them "you are not a danger to them."
McDaniel responded: "I am going to ask them, after 100 years, after 100 years of relying on big government to save you, where are you today? After 100 years of begging for federal government scraps, where are you today?"
After the audience booed the comments, McDaniel quickly said: "I mean the state of Mississippi. I'm talking about the state of Mississippi ... To your question, the candidate I am is the candidate that wants to expand your liberty ... break out of old ways."
After the Clarion Ledger reported his comments, McDaniel sent a message to the newspaper, saying: "It was an 11-minute segment. And that one sentence is your primary focus? I easily clarified my position that is, Mississippi being the dead last state of the Union in terms of wealth and economic prosperity, based on outdated economic models."
McDaniel faces appointed Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, former U.S. Rep. Mike Espy and military veteran Democrat Tobey Bartee in a Nov. 6 special election to fill out the remaining two years of longtime Sen. Thad Cochran's term.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/14/gop-candidate-blacks-stop-begging-government-scraps/1303501002/
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)...showing up as a know-nothing punk! Who would have predicted that?
(Aside from almost everybody)
Vinca
(50,271 posts)Please, sir. May we have some scraps??
ejbr
(5,856 posts)He just wants to cast aspersions. Unsurprising
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)is just name calling and whataboutism. No ideas except give it all to the rich.
modrepub
(3,495 posts)That's why the state is last in nearly every economic category is because "those people" are begging for government scraps?!? Totally ignoring Jim Crow and its legacy of keeping people with a particular skin color from fully participating in the state's economy for almost 100 years. Ever notice that most of the former slave states are some of the poorest states (and tend to receive more federal money than they contribute in taxes)? In the long run, granting access to education and jobs to all people tends to yield the strongest society.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)when asked what they propose for rehabilitation for our nation's most disenfranchised and impoverished areas that see little hope for economic prosperity - such as Eastern Kentucky, large swaths of the Mississippi Delta, and dozens of dead industrial zones across the nation.
Their solution is to de-fund:
* public education,
* economic development programs,
* basic healthcare support, and
* bootstrap programs such as food and housing assistance.
And to top it all off with cow shit icing - eventually raise taxes on the poor and middle class.......
Mr. McDaniel definitely has drank the Kool-Aid.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)corruption...they defend the wealthy and elitist at all cost as they are all part of that
book_worm
(15,951 posts)and if this racist numbskull thinks it's just because of black people looking for handouts he needs to be corrected. In fact the states who get the most federal aid are so-called red states:
The top recipient of federal aid in FY 2014 was Mississippi, which relied on federal assistance for 40.9 percent of its revenue. Other states heavily reliant on federal assistance include Louisiana (40.1 percent), Tennessee (39.9 percent), Montana (39.1 percent), and Kentucky (38.5 percent). As we have previously noted, these states, and others that rely heavily on federal assistance, tend to have modest tax collections and a relatively large low-income population.
https://taxfoundation.org/states-rely-most-federal-aid/