And here’s another fact for Newt Gingrich, just in case his “food stamp president” name-calling was designed to make a political point that he wasn’t quite so willing to come right out and say: Of recipients whose race we know, 22 percent of SNAP recipients are African-American. And 34 percent are white. Because hunger knows no race, or religion, or age or political party. Hunger is color-blind. So today I say thank you to President Obama. From now on, my nickname for you, President Obama, is “The ‘In America, kids shouldn’t be hungry’ President.
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL)
