According to TANF stats, white and black recipients both receive around the same with blacks receiving a little more. Keep in mind however that blacks make up less than 13% of the population. These two facts are indicative only that the poor are disproportionately black and vice versa. The insinuation that the mere collection of welfare by blacks is equivalent to "bilking social security" is unsubstantiated and borrows from a racist perspective that has been prevalent in privileged white America for some time now. Perhaps if the whites were the ones being exploited and blacks had the monopoly on privilege and the means of production, white America would be more accepting of the idea of welfare. Abuse of the system is the exception and not the rule.