The Lisbon Reporter

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Saturday, November 28, 2015

GOPDD: MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry: Be ‘Super Careful’ About Saying ‘Hard Worker’ Because It Demeans Slaves

By Dylan - Nov 28, 2015

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry chastised a Latino Republican guest on her show to be “super careful” when using the phrase “hard worker” to describe WHITE Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., the newly elected House GOP Speaker. Because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall,” she bragged, “because it is a reminder about what hard work really looks like.”