Ah, more racist demagoguery from the right Honorable Charlie Rangel. In Newsday, Rep. Rangel is reported to have been assailing the Bush administration because the war in Iraq was disproportionately impacting minorities. Let's let the esteemed Congressman from New York speak for himself:
>>>The congressman said about a quarter of those killed in action so far have been black or Hispanic, and are drawn to the military as a way out of economic hardship.
"Too few people are paying this high penalty of a death tax," he told a luncheon at the National Press Club. "They come from communities with the highest unemployment, communities with the lowest wage."
He also repeated his call for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to be fired, and a draft reinstituted to share the burden of the fighting across all segments of society.
"This is not shared sacrifice," he said. <<<
As James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal points out on OpinionJournal.com's Best of the Web:
>>>"According to the 2000 census, Hispanics make up 12.5% of the population and non-Hispanic blacks 12.1%, for a total of 24.6%. If about a quarter of the soldiers killed in Iraq belonged to one of these groups, that means blacks and Hispanics are dying at almost precisely proportionate numbers to their share of the population.<<<
Also, maybe I am wrong here but I don't think Chuckie Rangel has any say about the employment status of Don Rumsfeld, that is the President's call alone.
One last point, Rangel says " Too few people are paying this high penalty of a death tax" Would Chuckles prefer that we had more of our soldiers die to make the war more equitable? The people of New York can be proud of the congressional delegation indeed!
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