In a newspaper interview with black newspapers DNC chair Howard Dean asserted that the Republican party “has consistently played the race card in its opposition to affirmative action….”
Let’s see, the party that says (of course it doesn’t, but that’s another matter) that race should not be a factor in admissions, hiring, firing, promotion, etc., is playing the race card while the party that says it should isn’t?
The only reasonable response to nonsense like this is, well, a Howard Dean scream.
ADDENDUM
The Dean of Doubletalk also charged that “the GOP has done nothing about high black unemployment” and that
the African-American unemployment rate is twice what it is in the white community, and the Republicans have been in charge for five years and they have not lifted one finger to do anything about that.”
Really? Well, no. As Buzzcharts points out:
Last August, BuzzCharts pointed out that black unemployment was historically low. Since then, it has fallen even further. In fact, it has dropped from 10.6 percent in November to 9.3 percent in December to 8.9 percent in January. You have to go all the way back to July 2001 to find lower levels of black unemployment.
And if you go back before 2000, to the golden years of the Clinton era, what do you find?
This drop also undercuts the stereotype that the Democratic party is somehow the party that looks out for minorities: Today’s level of black unemployment is lower than the 9.5 percent average realized between 1995 and 2000, supposedly the height of Clinton’s “economic miracle.”
