Spot the Racist

Here's an interesting exercise.

Paul Ryan, United States Representative from Wisconsin and possible presidential candidate has run afoul of the leftist media and their handlers, being accused of racism for a statement made recently. We're going to post it here among some other quotes and see if you can pick out the Paul Ryan quote:

1. “Fewer young black and Latino men participate in the labor force compared to young white men. And all of this translates into higher unemployment rates and poverty rates as adults.
   
   
2. “In troubled neighborhoods all across this country—many of them heavily African American—too few of our citizens have role models to guide them.”
   
   
3. “We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households…. We know the statistics—that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of school and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.”
   
   
4. “We have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities, in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.”
   
   
5. “We know young black men are twice as likely as young white men to be ‘disconnected’—not in school, not working.”

Can you spot the racist statement? If you picked number 4, give yourself a pat on the back. Shame on Paul Ryan for noticing the culture of the ghetto where hard work is a slur and success is to be avoided like the plague. For shame!

By the way, statements 1, 2, 3, and 5 were all uttered by the same individual, using words like black, Latino, African-American, (lack of) role models, poverty, single parent households, and "disconnected."

The speaker was Barack Obama.

Thanks to AceOfSpades for this article.