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is all the talk on this board about Black people?How about poor white people,they go through the same things as Blacks. They are criminals welfare queens,babies out of wedlock,lazy and uncouth also.Say white peeps why dont you talk about your own people.Does it hurt that much.:razz::razz:

I can understand how frustrated you must feel.

there is one big point that you are missing though. whites dont make excuses for white trash. we make fun of them, we shame them, we hold them up to our children as examples of how not to behave.

we dont lower our standards of behaviour so that white trash is embraced as equal and admirable in our middle class society. if more blacks were public in declaring what was acceptable behaviour then there would be more acceptable behaviour. actually any black who openly calls for better behaviour is snubbed by the black community. in fact, blacks behave the way they do because it is acceptable to the black community at large.
 
The History of the Poorhouse

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF RACE AND SOCIAL WELFARE HISTORY- KEY LEGISLATION
Following are some key events of racism in the history of social welfare. Unless otherwise cited, this history is drawn from Neubeck and Cazanave's (2001) Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor.
Mother’s Pensions in the early 1900s.
In the early 1900s state legislatures began to pass bills that supported single mothers called „Mother‟s Pensions‟. While African Americans were more deeply impoverished, the aid was given almost solely to white women with Anglo ancestry. Because benefits were administered locally, rules frequently were created explicitly to exclude women of color. One common requirement was that a mother maintained a „suitable home‟ for her children. The term „suitable‟, which was not clearly defined, was frequently used to exclude African-American women due to negative stereotypes of African Americans.
The New Deal and Aid to Dependent Children in the 1930s
In 1935 The New Deal established the Social Security Act, which included the Aid to Dependent Children program (ADC). Language from the original Social Security Bill that outlawed racial discrimination was totally removed from the bill, giving states silent permission to discriminate. Like the mother‟s pensions, ADC was administered at the local level, leaving more room for racial discrimination in some states. The federal government did not participate in personnel or administration in the individual states, tacitly allowing discrimination in hiring and African Americans were rarely hired as welfare workers.
The children of poor southern African American women were often barred or removed from ADC rolls under the rationale of “suitable work” or “employable mother.” The same standards were not applied to white mothers- where staying home with children was socially valued.
In 1935 Congress approved support for widows of retired workers and their children under the Old-Age Insurance Provisions Act. While this was an important step in eliminating old-age poverty, the majority of professions which were covered in the act were occupations for whites, and occupations filled mostly by African Americans (domestic work, seasonal labor, farm labor) were excluded. White widows were offered an alternative to ADC that was preferable since they did not have to demonstrate economic need and were not subject to morality tests, suitable home policies, or compulsory work requirements. These white widows were considered the „deserving poor‟, and they rapidly left ADC creating a two-tiered system.
Post World War II
After World War II individual states and localities tried to control the growth and costs of ADC. This resulted in many more restrictive policies, including more “suitable home” policies, which were used to racially discriminate. “Man-in-the-house” policies were also implemented, which denied ADC to families whose mothers were suspected of receiving financial assistance from adult males. These households were subject to surprise middle-of-the-night raids by local welfare caseworkers in search of male guests

http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ssw/cascw/PracResources/SubjectSummaries/WhitePrivilege/Key Legislation.pdf
 

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