CNN reports that Newt Gingrich isn’t being silent in the face of pushback from the NAACP. The organization slammed Gingrich on Friday for comments he’d delivered the day before in which he said he would be “prepared” to “go to their convention to talk about why the African American community should demand pay checks and not be satisfied with food stamps.”
“I think you would have to be nuts to read those two paragraphs and conclude anything except that I was saying that every young American deserves the right to pursue happiness. Every young American deserves a chance to have a job. Every neighborhood in America deserves a chance to have pay checks instead of food stamps,” he said.
“And for the life of me I can’t understand why having a conservative Republican who cares about young people having jobs should be seen as such a terrible idea or should be seen as somehow a racist characterization,” he told reporters.
