Ok…so this is one that always pissed me off…the fact that when the topic of welfare comes up..and a white person is involved in the conversation…they can’t help but have visions of the lazy black welfare mother with 12 kids eating up all their hard earned tax dollars…when in fact…that vision is a hateful lie perpetuated by accepted racism… or as society would rather have it said..a stereotype.
Soooo…here
Best line:--"The numbers go like this: 61% of the population receiving welfare, listed as "means-tested cash assistance" by the Census Bureau, is identified as white, while only 33% is identified as black. These numbers notwithstanding, the Republican version of "political correctness" has given us "welfare cheat" as a new term for African American since the early days of Ronald Reagan. Yet if the Lakers were 61% white and on a winning streak, would we be calling them a "black team"?--
I know the article is old…but it was the only article i can find from a decent magazine that had a white person addressing it, go figure....here are the welfare numbers today:
White 38.8%
Black 37.2
Hispanic 17.8
Asian 2.8
Other 3.4
Keep in mind blacks only make up 15% of the US population, so 37% of them still makes up a hell of a lot less than 38% of whites.
Sooooo, instead of writing some long winded statistical tirade explaining it all, I’ll have this kind white lady back me up. Enjoy…and for fucks sake learn something and stop with the “stereotype”.
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