An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich from a Black Kid Who Grew Up in a Poor Neighborhood
Submitted on December 14, 2011
By Travon Free - December 5, 2011
I recently saw you stand up in front of a group of people and allow some of the most idiotic, unfounded, racist, and ignorant words pass your lips that I’ve ever heard...To have the audacity to say that poor kids...“have no habits of working and nobody around them who works” is not only an insult to me as a black man who grew up in one of those “really poor” neighborhoods you spoke of, but it’s an insult to my mother.
