(Poverty) Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy

By now, it’s become fairly obvious that if you’re an African-American politician in South Carolina who isn’t 100% towing the liberal line, La Socialista (a.k.a. The State newspaper) is going to turn on you like a ravenous pack of bureaucratic hyenas gobbling up another P.C.-inspired government “grant.”

And if they can’t find something legitimate to hang their disdain on, they’ll just conjure something up.

We saw that last month with the case of Sen. Robert Ford – who became a pariah with La Socialista‘s liberal editors when he endorsed parental choice – and we’re seeing it again today with Sen. Darrell Jackson.

Jackson’s crime?

Are you sitting down? Have you taken your blood pressure medication today?

Good.

According to Appleseed Legal Justice Center Jihadist Warren Bolton, Jackson’s church (gasp!) took money from a financial literacy program that’s affiliated with the payday lending industry.

We know … the horror.

Seriously, how dare he?

How dare his church take money for a program that exists to educate poor minority citizens about making better financial decisions - you know, the kind of decisions that would prevent them from having to rely on payday loans.

Yet according to Bolton, such a diabolical association makes Jackson part of the payday lenders’ evil scheme.

… it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that these “friendly” donations are at least as important a part of the industry’s lobbying strategy as the official corporate donations.

Wait … what?

Are you kidding us?

That’s pathetic.

This is an industry that has already agreed to absorb sweeping regulations to its operations in South Carolina and yet Bolton and his commie cronies can’t seem to take “Yes” for an answer.

Now, they’re bashing so blindly they can’t even see what they’re hitting anymore – or, even worse, they see and they just don’t care.

Attacking Darrell Jackson for taking financial literacy money tied to the payday lending industry is like attacking someone for not driving drunk after they saw a Budweiser “designated driver” ad, or heeding a Phillip Morris-funded smoking cessation warning.

It makes no sense at all.

And the deeper La Socialista goes down these illogical rabbit holes, the more credibility it loses.

Seriously, they’ve already staked out the position that parental choice won’t help poor black students – while simultaneously contending that so many poor black students will take advantage of it that it will bankrupt public schools.

That’s not just misleading – it’s logically impossible.

You simply cannot have it both ways.

In addition to being against academic choices for poor blacks, La Socialista now apparently doesn’t want them to be financially literate, either.

There’s only one conclusion to be drawn here, and it ain’t pretty – but it is what it is.

Like the failed status quo it so slavishly serves, Bolton and La Socialista clearly want blacks to stay poor, dumb and totally dependent on big government.

That, to us, is the definition of “poverty pimping.”

And it’s obvious that any black leader who isn’t turning tricks like a good little sellout will be “dealt with.”