It is debatable whether or not the motivations of the Gopper Governors are racially based. I would be more inclined to believe that it’s just the typical Gopper disdain for the average American, but I have to admit that I might be wrong. It could well be that Gopper scum like Barbour, Sanford, and Perry actually are worried about what changes may come with the next census, and they might actually be trying to find a way to hold that off.

The presence of Jindal among the Gopper naysayers does not invalidate Cyburn’s theory. Jindal is cheap window dressing, and he is woefully ineffective as a Governor. We’ll be looking further into Jindal’s “accomplishments” later. For now, let us see what Clyburn has to say, and try to decide whether this is white sheet Klansevatism or Marie Antoinette disdain.

The highest-ranking African-American member of Congress on Friday accused Southern governors who oppose economic stimulus spending of indifference to the plight of poor blacks who might benefit from the federal money.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, amplified earlier statements that the governors’ hesitation in accepting stimulus money had insulted him because “these four states are in the heart of the black belt.”

Clyburn singled out Republican Govs. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Rick Perry of Texas, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Haley Barbour of Mississippi for criticism.

The four governors have said that they might turn down their states’ shares of the $787 billion stimulus bill that Congress passed last week — with almost no Republican support — and President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday.

Clyburn said the measure reserved some money for census tracts in which more than one-fifth of the residents had lived at or below the federal poverty level for the last 30 years. He said that 12 of South Carolina’s 46 counties qualified for the targeted aid, all along the impoverished Interstate 95 corridor.

“Now the (South Carolina) governor says, ‘I don’t want to accept the money,’ ” Clyburn told CNN. “That’s why I called this an insult. That’s why I said this is a slap in the face; because a majority of these counties are, in fact, inhabited by African-Americans.”

Sanford, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, said that he and Clyburn held different views of Obama’s plan to jolt the economy through massive government spending combined with tax cuts.

“Representative Clyburn and I disagree on this,” Sanford told Fox News on Thursday. “He thinks it’s a good idea. I think it’s a horrible idea.”

Clyburn’s comments, after recent controversies over a New York Post cartoon and remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder, suggest that race remains a sensitive topic in the United States a month after its first black president was inaugurated.

Sanford’s spokesman, Joel Sawyer, said that Clyburn “is no stranger to playing the race card” and added: “Spending money at the federal level that we do not have represents a future tax increase on all South Carolinians, regardless of their color.”

Sanford was “still looking at the stimulus package to determine what our options are, and whether to accept or reject some, none or all of this money,” Sawyer said.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh mocked Clyburn.

“I thought this (stimulus money) was designed to spur the economy,” Limbaugh said. “But Mr. Clyburn here is letting us know that (it) was intended to go to black people, and if the governors aren’t going to take it, then they are racist.”

And the pedophile dope addict jumps on it to try to make one of his Klanservative points. There is no doubt at all as to Limbaugh’s racism, although it apparently doesn’t extend to underage Hispanic males.

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