No the republicans hate of anyone of color getting a dime of government money is who is responsible for him having to say shit like this to reach into their atrophied brains to try and restart them
BTY the average welfare recipient is a white single female with children.
Do you really think that is the image that is conjured up in republican minds when spew hate on poor people?
It is also not the image portrayed in the media.
The US media started reinforcing racial stereotypes during Civil Rights gains made by black Americans in the 1960s and 1970s that decreased the states ability to discriminate in application of welfare policies, and again during the recession of 1982-1983. After ignoring poverty suffered in black communities throughout US history, the poverty images the media published the 1960's and later in the 1980's disproportionately depicted black faces. However, unlike the positive stories accompanying images of white poverty, black people were overwhelmingly connected to negative news coverage and commentary.
Gilens cautioned media photographers and editors to be more careful of the proportion of black Americans they choose to associate with negative articles about poverty, and pointed out that since distortions have been made known to the media, some progress has been made towards a more accurate portrayal of black poverty, both in the numbers of images portrayed compared to the larger population of the welfare dependent, and in the types of articles that accompany those images. Gilens thoroughly surveyed reasons for media distortions of black Americans by reporters and editors, and concluded: “subconscious stereotypes present the most plausible explanation for the discrepancy between the racial liberalism of news professionals and the negative images of blacks that are found in the news coverage of poverty.”
Nevertheless, the intent of the owners of news organizations in the demands and constraints they place on their reporting and editorial staffs, as well as the political actors reporters rely on for content may have more class and racial group self-interest at heart in their attention to poverty than the more liberal reporting and editorial staffs.
When politicians and policy makers discuss the “welfare state” in budget meetings, they include all social spending, including education, which, because of the local nature of most of its funding, mainly benefits the middle classes and the wealthy. The amounts for social spending reached privately by policymakers in budget negotiations publicly implicate poverty-based welfare, as differences in allocation are not disseminated publicly. Other social insurance programs of the welfare state dwarf what little is spent on needs tested programs, and they do not only benefit the poor. They do to a large extent prevent poverty for many, but countless others would not be poor without them.
As a result, not only are the poor who receive welfare blamed for their own condition, but they also foot the public perception bill for the entire welfare state. Since the racialization of welfare that began in the 1960s and continued in the 1980s, that bill is overwhelmingly laid at the feet of poor black Americans. Given the history of racial stereotyping, prejudice, and outright racism in US government, politics, and society, as well as the timing of the shift in focus from worthy white poverty to unworthy black recipients of welfare, it is exceedingly hard to credit innocently “subconscious” reasons for the distorted images of black Americans in the US media.