Glenn Beck continues to rattle on about Frances Piven. The coded language, thinly veiled bigotry and class-ism is palpable. See the original Elephant in the Room post below for further clarification on the Cloward–Piven strategy.
P.S. The linked video from youtube contains wing-nut banter
The Huffington Post described the above comments as "eye brow raising". Beyond eyebrow raising Rick Santorum's comment,
"Well if that human life is not a person then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say 'now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.'"
This comment is indicative of a deeper psychological rift that has bifurcated the American psyche. The chasm exists between Americans who are willing to have a person of color leading their country and those who tightly cling to a vestigial white supremacist ideology. Santorum's unveiled bigotry serves as dog whistle politics for many on the right who trade in the politics of fear. However, the brand of fear Santourum is peddling is white supremacy.
The comment is forked. On one prong, Rick states that, "it is remarkable for a black man to say WE are going to decide who are people.".. Left tacit in that phrase is the concept that black people are not human. This is a founding theme in the American apartheid system. The 3/5 compromise was not only a canard for census data but it is also a pillar of racist ideology, it promotes the idea that Africans do not have the stature, intellect or indeed the characteristics of human beings. The other prong is the personal pronoun we, it connotes a group of people in America who are fundamentally unlike the standing President of the United States. This has been a theme of the right, The President is not like "us" or "we" or "we want our country back". Again Rick is alluding to the fact that Barak Obama does not have two white parents and is not of the social or perhaps mental status of the unnamed "we". This group of individuals called we is a group Santourum seemingly claims membership of. Is this a social group or a cultural group?
Clearly Santourum is borrowing a page from politics from past centuries, sadly much of the critique from the right revolves around the politics of bigotry. Santourum likely understands and supports the ignorance of his message.
Perhaps Elon James White frames the discourse more effectively Video Update:
