We've been fighting poverty all wrong

[TygrBright]

5. Those of us who have been fighting this fight since the mid-20th Century could tell you...

...that this was the original intent of all the Sargent Shriver programs. No means testing, no conditions, no work requirements.

So what stopped it?

One thing: Those pesky people with not-white skins. If you made all these programs unconditional and universally available, some of them might get help.

If they got help, they might actually succeed in increasing their economic base, on an individual level, on a family level, even shudder-shudder, whiteJesus forbid, on a community level.

And then they'd get even more uppity.

And we couldn't have that, nosiree.

It's the racism. It's ALWAYS been the racism.

As American as apple pie, cross burnings and detention camps.

wearily,
Bright