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In reply to the discussion: Wanna Know Who Made Racism ''Acceptable Again'' in the good ol' USA? [View all]daredtowork
(3,732 posts)Which is why Hillary NEEDS to address the welfare part of her platform, where she is just lazily continuing Bill Clinton's "Welfare Reform as We Know It" and hoping no one will notice while she triangulates the racist vote into her "warm purple space".
This is also why Cities can't get grant money any more and teahadist legislators constantly try to withdraw funding from "Big Government". The (white) man on the street has been persuaded that taxes and/or "socialism" means taking the money white folks "earn" and giving it away to black folks. And if black folks are earning it, that must be because they took a job from a white man via quotas or pipelining.
I don't think we'd see this kind of mean-spirited race-based competition if we had an economy of full employment and a strong safety net. That's right, *withdrawing* welfare is exacerbating this problem. Because when a white person needs help, and they can't get it because welfare has been gutted, they just assume black people are getting through secret race-based backdoors. In communities where EVERYONE can live with dignity, this doesn't have to happen.