ACORN no longer federally funded Options

[dosomethin888]

I totally support this.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-b...ederal_fun.html

[Reidar]

If the right-wing had its way, the only people who'd be allowed to participate in politics would be white male landowners.

That's baseless, not to mention cheap. The biggest damn any major political party truly gives about race is how it can help them get support from whatever demographic they've alienated. If Michael Steele will make the GOP look more "hip" then they'll put him up there without so much as a second thought, and somehow I doubt they did it begrudgingly with gritted teeth.

[mipadi]

That's baseless, not to mention cheap. The biggest damn any major political party truly gives about race is how it can help them get support from whatever demographic they've alienated. If Michael Steele will make the GOP look more "hip" then they'll put him up there without so much as a second thought, and somehow I doubt they did it begrudgingly with gritted teeth.

Unfortunately, it's neither. The behavior of the Republican Party, in particular with regards to ACORN, demonstrates a definite classist bias. The GOP has had ACORN in its sights for over a year, after ACORN began signing poor citizens up to vote -- citizens that voted mostly in support of Obama. The GOP doesn't want poor people to vote because they typically don't vote for conservatives. Of course, the Republican Party, as a whole, is inadvertently racist. Its policies are much more classist in nature; it just so happens that in America, poor people are disproportionately minorities. That's why they can have a guy like Michael Steele in charge -- because the party is intentionally classist, accidentally racist. (Besides, assuming that the GOP was intentionally racist, -- putting Steele in charge doesn't change that -- it just means that it's willing to put aside its racism to achieve a "higher" goal of gaining seats for the party. Just because a party panders to a certain audience, doesn't mean it actually respects or even likes those people.)