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Owner59 -> RE: Does Obama's win prove we are colorblind? (1/6/2008 6:11:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Kaiynasha
Ah as you see the true meaning behind this posting is finally revealed.
BTW African Americans only make 12% of the population in the United States therefore how can we be responsible for the problems of welfare? In 2007 the Office of Family Assistance Reported that the United States makes up about 3 million individuals on welfare you can find that here: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/caseload/2007/tanf_recipients.htm. And let's say hypothetically, every single African American (12%) is on welfare that means out of 3 million it would be about 300,000 plus. That means the 2.7 million of welfare recepients are NOT African Americans. Right?
And since I am African American and not on welfare and among so many others I know who are not either. That would make the numbers even less for African Americans. Thus...stop spreading racism. And start spreading facts.
MK
Yes,most poor people the the US are white.
The image of black welfare mothers,popping out more kids for more welfare money, was a horrible stereotype ,perpetrated by the right.
That story that Ronald Reagan told, about the welfare mother in "Chigago"(code for black)who would drive to the welfare office in a brand new Cadillac,to pick up her check,was complete bull shit and made-up.Though there was no such person,the bigoted image stuck,and complements the present racism.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0309.mendacity-index.html
Cadillac Queens.
Over a period of about five years, Reagan told the story of the "Chicago welfare queen" who had 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards, and collected benefits for "four nonexisting deceased husbands," bilking the government out of "over $150,000." The real welfare recipient to whom Reagan referred was actually convicted for using two different aliases to collect $8,000. Reagan continued to use his version of the story even after the press pointed out the actual facts of the case to him.
http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Race/R_Casestudy/Oldsmobile_popCulture.htm
Myth: There are Welfare Queens driving Welfare Cadillacs. Fact: Reagan made up this story.
Summary
Reagan's story of a Welfare Queen driving a Welfare Cadillac was apocryphal. Even so, there is no evidence that welfare cheating is a significant problem; besides, individual welfare payments are too small for recipients to live well.
Argument
Conservative politicians have a talent for telling memorable anecdotes that capture the essence of their beliefs on any particular issue. One of the most enduring of these came from Ronald Reagan on the subject of welfare. He cited a Chicago "Welfare Queen" who had ripped off $150,000 from the government, using 80 aliases, 30 addresses, a dozen social security cards, and four fictional dead husbands. The country was outraged; Reagan dutifully promised to roll back welfare; and ever since, the "Welfare Queen" driving her "Welfare Cadillac" has become permanently lodged in American political folklore.
Unfortunately, like most great conservative anecdotes, it wasn't really true. The media searched for this welfare cheat in the hopes of interviewing her, and discovered that she didn't even exist.
As a bit of class warfare, however, it was brilliant. It diverted public attention from insider traders in their limousines to Welfare Queens in their Cadillacs, even though the former were stealing thousands of times more from the American people than the latter. Just one example of the cost of white collar crime would become apparent a few years later, when President Bush bailed out the Savings & Loans industry with $500 billion of the taxpayer's money -- enough to fund 20 years of federal AFDC. "
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