Poor Americans lack access to adequate health care, working schools, transportation, and healthful foods? The obvious solution is that they should drag their sick, uneducated, car-less and fat behinds to the nearest Fortune 500 company and apply for a job as a senior vice president in charge of finance.

The whole problem is that they're lazy. If they weren't so lazy, then they could be working hard behind a desk, doing the heavy work of lifting a phone and pressing computer keys, instead of doing those slothful jobs of cleaning bathrooms, digging ditches, stocking grocery shelves, pushing wheelbarrows full of concrete, and all those other lazy bum jobs like that which require no physical labor. I mean, those lazy poor people, they just sit around working instead of doing nothing like us successful business types, then they dare complain that we successful business types get tax breaks and they get, well, broken? How dare they!

- Badtux the Republican Penguin
BadTux | Homepage | 09.21.05 - 9:47 pm | #

Normally, I get tired of all the purported examples of racism endemic in the us (and the tiring attempted remedies that really need to redress class differences, not racial differences).

That isn't the case here. The newswire has really outdone itself in calling the whites (presumably more like their internet news consumers) "noble" (as in they helped themselves), while calling the black person a thief.

Truely amazing.

Thanks for posting.
alec gimurtu | 09.12.05 - 10:39 pm | #