Rick Santorum must be “racist” because he thinks all people, regardless of ethnicity, should have the dignity of self-sufficiency. At least that’s how the NAACP sees it. Talking about pushing back against those in government endlessly trying to expand welfare programs because they make money off them, Santorum said, “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Benjamin Todd Jealous called this “… outrageous … race-based stereotypes about public assistance.”
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