Rep. Paul Ryan continues to self-righteously push back against his racist dog whistles having been recognized for what they are. “I don’t have a racist bone in my body,” he told Bill O’Reilly. (Probably not! But then, racism tends to be carried more in the brain than the bones.) In case you find yourself in danger of being convinced by Ryan’s simplistic assertions that, whatever he may have said, he just isn’t racist, David Corn has rounded up a few examples from Ryan’s history of blowing that particular dog whistle.
There’s the time when, speaking to an audience of Ayn Rand acolytes, Ryan’s solution to “the victimization class” was “trying to recruit a lot of minority legislators to work with us.” That makes pretty clear who he thinks “the victimization class” is. Most crucially, Ryan’s recent finger-pointing at inner-city (read: black) culture is nothing new. In 2012, for instance, he said:
… the best thing to help prevent violent crime in the inner cities is to bring opportunity in the inner cities, is to help people get out of poverty in the inner cities, is to help teach people good discipline, good character.
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Paul Ryan still trying to convince us he doesn"t have "a racist bone in my body"
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