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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, the GOP is not allowed to discuss the problems in the inner city?  Wow.  And, for the record, I am familiar with the inner city.[/quote]

The problem is that so many conservatives have used it as a code word to attack black people, that they have ruined the discussion for all conservatives.  As a group, any comment you make about the inner city is going to be viewed with suspicion, and that suspicion has a pretty long basis in fact.  If conservatives really want to address the problems of the inner cities, they have to build up credibility.

Did Paul Ryan say something racist?  Maybe not, but he fell victim to his own stereotypes about inner cities, whatever those may be, and this is how you can see it.  He quoted a study that specifically stated that "urbanity" did not explain its principal findings.  Yet he uses it in a comment where he says "We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular".  So he actually read a study that said it is not an urban phenomenon, but drew the opposite lesson from it.  Why?  Because the image that he's fed by Republicans is that poverty and all of its social ills is an inner city phenomenon.  And that's just not true.

Today, 30% of non-hispanic white babies are born out of wedlock.  Given the number of white people in America, that means there are far more so-called "fatherless" white children being born than blacks.  And as a point of comparison, when in the 60's D. P. Moynihan declared black out of wedlock births a social crisis, do you know what that rate was?  25%.  So apparently there is a crisis in white out-of-wedlock births, and you would never know it from what the conservative politicians are saying.  [/quote]

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