I’m guessing this guy is a big fan of MSNBC. Call it a hunch.

Via HuffPo:

A town hall in southeast Wisconsin turned testy for Republican Rep. Paul Ryan on Wednesday when constituents confronted the House Budget Committee chairman over his recent comments on inner-city poverty, as well as his opposition to Obamacare.

The more heated exchange occurred when Alfonso Gardner, a black man from Mount Pleasant, read aloud remarks Ryan made last week on the “culture problem” among inner-city men.

“We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work,” Ryan said in an interview with conservative radio host Bill Bennett. “There is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.”

The statements were immediately interpreted as racist by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), prompting Ryan to agree to a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. He also clarified that he had been “inarticulate” and was not implicating any particular race but the cycle of poverty as a whole. Gardner told Ryan he didn’t buy his explanation, according to a video posted Thursday by NBC News.

“The next day you said that statement was inarticulate. Well, I don’t believe that. You said what you meant,” Gardner told Ryan. “Bottom line is this: This statement was not true, that’s a code word for black.”

“There are people in the inner-city who are white, Hispanic, who are Armenians, Danish — all types,” he continued. “And everybody works. You got here in a car or a truck or something. Somebody from the inner city helped make that.”

“This is not a race thing. It’s just a poor thing. Poverty knows no racial boundaries,” Ryan responded. “That’s the issue I’m trying to get at, which is we have to rethink our war on poverty and our programs so that it always pays to work. Because we have these incentives to people not to work.”