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Originally Posted by Katczinsky  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. |
You're misinformed if you think abuse of the system is the exception. Anytime you have a system of free handouts, you will have abuse. It's human nature and especially indicative of the poor. I don't see anything happening right now that will stop the cycle of poverty/welfare/crime among the poor [and predominately black] community. Welfare moms continue to pump out more kids to populate our prisons in the future so they can get a few extra bucks in that check every month. Our cities are now infested with this poor criminal element and all we can see to do is come up with new "programs" and throw more money at it.
Yeah, that's right. All of us middle class white people have no right to complain since we were not born under such circumstances. We should be more "understanding." Meanwhile, it remains unsafe to walk in our own cities and there's always somebody in the shadows waiting to rip you off. The most disgusting thing of all is that our own nation's capital, Washington DC, is the most crime ridden city in the country. Of course, since the ones commiting the crimes are mostly black, we can't do anything about it without appearing racist.