Loan companies: "No, but you will be."

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Dante Hicks is just like you. He loves grape soda. He knows what it's like when the guy in the supermarket won't take your food stamps. Or how it feels to wait all month for your welfare check.

Rick Scott's poor too, he can relate to those kids. Rick Scott is so poor that he lost all his hair trying to pay off a loan

I cannot believe this man is my governor. Ugh, Florida.

Used to work in a factory as a technician on computers. We had a black gentleman come in who owned a company and had come in to work on some of our equipment and were sitting in my office. A guy I worked with asked him basically "were you born an underprivilaged child?" The man proceeded to tell him how his dad was 1/2 Cherokee Indian, he had one sister that was a doctor, one that was a nurse, one that was a lawyer, one that went to work for the FBI, he owned his own company and on and on and on. I really wanted laugh out loud because of the stupid look on the face of the idiot that aksed the question.

Bigdogdaddy: Used to work in a factory as a technician on computers. We had a black gentleman come in who owned a company and had come in to work on some of our equipment and were sitting in my office. A guy I worked with asked him basically "were you born an underprivilaged child?" The man proceeded to tell him how his dad was 1/2 Cherokee Indian, he had one sister that was a doctor, one that was a nurse, one that was a lawyer, one that went to work for the FBI, he owned his own company and on and on and on. I really wanted laugh out loud because of the stupid look on the face of the idiot that aksed ASKED the question.

Damn. I hope that wasn't a Freudian slip there. lol

It ain't easy to be white
(It ain't easy being brown)
All the pressure to be bright
(I got children all over town)

I assumed he was talking about the governor's mansion at first. But yeah, that's bad too.

He was born a poor black child?

Rick Scott.

Really, my fellow Floridians, en masse you are idiots.

/this particular incident brings to mind Newt's idea to have poor children clean toilets - code revealed by the daily show

Yeah, I was expecting the school to have some disproportionate number of full ride folks or something to make that possibly not racist. Doesn't look that way, though.

Maybe he has a point about the drug testing. I mean, his parents weren't tested to qualify for public housing, and look how he turned out.

/not serious about the drug testing
//very serious he that turned out to be a f*ckwit

Yet his party wants to slash the very programs that allowed him to get a leg up so that he could rise to a position of wealth and influence.

What has Rick Scott Done Lately? (new window)

Sadly, it's not updated as much as it should be.

Man, it would have been awesome if he said, "I get it, you know why? You and me, we're from the street."

Masso: Man, it would have been awesome if he said, "I get it, you know why? You and me, we're from the street."

Yeah, but the conversation gets uncomfortable when he mentions the giant spider.

ghare: Rick Scott.

Really, my fellow Floridians, en masse you are idiots.

/this particular incident brings to mind Newt's idea to have poor children clean toilets - code revealed by the daily show

You needed to have that "revealed" by The Daily Show?

Bigdogdaddy: Bigdogdaddy: Used to work in a factory as a technician on computers. We had a black gentleman come in who owned a company and had come in to work on some of our equipment and were sitting in my office. A guy I worked with asked him basically "were you born an underprivilaged child?" The man proceeded to tell him how his dad was 1/2 Cherokee Indian, he had one sister that was a doctor, one that was a nurse, one that was a lawyer, one that went to work for the FBI, he owned his own company and on and on and on. I really wanted laugh out loud because of the stupid look on the face of the idiot that aksed ASKED the question.

Damn. I hope that wasn't a Freudian slip there. lol

It's none of the dumbass' busines. the black dude should not have felt any need to defend himself against some ...................... what was the race of the dude who asked the question? you don't mention it (why?)

or maybe the reason why you don't mention it, as innocent a reason that may be, may be why the dude flipped out?

Still no reason to explain yourself. and going to the 'i'm not all black' card ------- which is what the cherokee (negro please) card is all about ---- torpedoes everything.

What did you do to the dude who asked the question in the first place, afterwards? or did you say nothing?

Mugato: I dunno, can we at least come to the consensus that Rick Scott is a horrible person and bond based on that?

i think i'm just gonna stare at alanis' boobs. as long as neither of us end up sticky, i'm OK with bonding over that.

FishyFred: I went into that article expecting it to be less racist than it looked from the headline.

Nope! It was worse!

Many times I have spent on Fark explaining why people need to hold back the race card. That try as you might, it's not racism. This is why you hold back the race card. So when you do see it, the race card is relevant.

This is blatant racism. This guy is a bona fide racist.

To truly bond with the students I propose Gov. Scott should go through the traditional hazing process with the FAMU Marching Band.

The really sad thing is that people who are living in public housing don't need to be shamed like this by some Lex Luthor wannabe.

These days the really poor are lucky to go to community college.

Next time, Rick, show you really belong with a couple of your hot dance moves.

buckler: Nina_Hartley's_Ass: He was born a poor black child?

I guess the "shiat vs. Shinola" lesson didn't take.

/special purpose

I see that while talking about his past he failed to mention the forty cake incident. And that's just terrible.

You'd think that the students and the media would be more outraged at the murder of a student who was beaten to death on the band bus.

The college has known of the hazing for a long time.

Unshavenhelga: You'd think that the students and the media would be more outraged at the murder of a student who was beaten to death on the band bus.

The college has known of the hazing for a long time.

You mean that story that has been on the front cover of CNN.com for the last 3 weeks? The same story (and its 1067 related stories) that keeps taking up a disproportionate amount of my Google News page? Yeah, that story hasn't received much coverage or outrage at all.

Moopy Mac: You mean that story that has been on the front cover of CNN.com for the last 3 weeks?

Considering the M.E. just declared it a homicide yesterday?

"The crowd did not allow him to finish."

Sadly, that's probably the best way to treat most Republican politicians who are dumb enough to speak in public nowadays.

Unshavenhelga: Moopy Mac: You mean that story that has been on the front cover of CNN.com for the last 3 weeks?

Considering the M.E. just declared it a homicide yesterday?

Submit it.

Or continue to trivialize and ignore conservatives' racist slips showing while dragging eight feet of toilet paper around on your shoe.

I'm just fine with the GOP embarrassing itself into irrelevance and nonexistence.
It's been a deadweight on this country since the sixties.