No one believes that. What we do know is that depending on what statistics one uses, we find that blacks are between 3,8 and 6 times as likely to be receiving government assistance.It's not a sin. Some need and deserve help but simply paying people not to work and try to better their own situations has not worked. We've spent 22 trillion on the "War on Poverty" and we have half agai as many poor people as we started out with. We have more single parent homes, more crime and double the prison population. EDUCATION and training is the key, but first the poor need to want to help themselves. THAT starts with parents (2) instilling a strong work ethic and a love of knowledge.
Jim Crow laws (courtesy of Bob Byrd Democrats you still support) ended in 1965, what's your point? I'm not off by 25 years. You're late by about 50 years. Republicans freed the slaves 150 years ago, Democrats struggled to find ways of keeping them ignorant and unemployed with Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, etc. The same Democrats you hold in high regard. Republicans have fought for equal rights for blacks since slavery. Don't tell me I'm off 25 years, it only shows your utter stupidity. You don't even know your own heritage. The Democratic Party has done a great job of keeping you ignorant and on the plantation. You're still a slave.WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.
"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. "They don't work."
Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.
True, but African-Americans are only 12.5% of the population, yet they take up 25.7% of the SNAP usage.
They make up a disproportionately high amount of government assistance.
That said... I agree with you that race is irrelevant. (assuming that's your point).
The problem is SNAP itself. The problem is, people who are not working, shouldn't be living off of those who are, and their race is irrelevant.
We need to kick them all off SNAP. Not just one race or another.
Jim Crow laws were(courtesy of CONSERVATIVE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS) officially in effect until 1965. You are off by about 25 years.
Carry on.
Jim Crow laws (courtesy of Bob Byrd Democrats you still support) ended in 1965, what's your point? I'm not off by 25 years. You're late by about 50 years. Republicans freed the slaves 150 years ago, Democrats struggled to find ways of keeping them ignorant and unemployed with Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, etc. The same Democrats you hold in high regard. Republicans have fought for equal rights for blacks since slavery. Don't tell me I'm off 25 years, it only shows your utter stupidity. You don't even know your own heritage. The Democratic Party has done a great job of keeping you ignorant and on the plantation. You're still a slave.WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.
"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. "They don't work."
Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.
True, but African-Americans are only 12.5% of the population, yet they take up 25.7% of the SNAP usage.
They make up a disproportionately high amount of government assistance.
That said... I agree with you that race is irrelevant. (assuming that's your point).
The problem is SNAP itself. The problem is, people who are not working, shouldn't be living off of those who are, and their race is irrelevant.
We need to kick them all off SNAP. Not just one race or another.
Jim Crow laws were(courtesy of CONSERVATIVE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS) officially in effect until 1965. You are off by about 25 years.
Carry on.
Nothing you said holds water. Screaming and shouting and using a lot of icons doesn't make your bullshit valid. My point was that blacks have had 150 years of freedom and they still can't stand on their own two feet despite the many decades of help from Republicans and libertarians. You choose to deflect by focusing on AA as if it were the only thing I mentioned. Typical liberal tactic when you can't argue with the truth. Blacks, as a percentage of the population, are the largest recipients of food stamps and pay the least in taxes to support the program. You can't face that fact.
You brought up AA and "75 years", and you got busted. That's one.
The thread is about food stamps-- two or three posters used apples-and-oranges demographics (demographics! Dat's wacist!) to make a specious argument about what the numbers mean. You're the only one who remained to dig deeper once apples-and-oranges was pointed out. That's two.
Political parties aren't part of the topic, however lynching was never a political exercise, which we already did in that lynching thread I did recently. You're trying to re-fight that lost battle too, just like the KKK tried to re-fight the Civil War. That's three.
Which, speaking of the KKK, was founded by Confederate soldiers, not politicians, another myth I put to rest and you're trying to dig out of its grave. That's four.
1969 is marked as the first Affirmative Action experiment, the Philadelphia Order, under Richard Nixon. 46 years ago. Not 75. That's simple subtraction: 2015 minus 1969 equals 46.
Duhhhh....
Why, I understand that at 8am on the morning after the Civil War they were all at their new jobs in suits, warmly welcomed there by all the people who "owned" them the day before, and there was never anything like a century of resentment that brought stuff like rampant lynchings and other terrorism, segregated businesses, restaurants ghettos, rest rooms, even water fountains, and there's no way vigilante terrorist groups like the KKK and the Knights of the White Camellia formed to keep things the way they were. There's no way we ever had several decades of race riots and no way the KKK re-formed all over again to fuel all that, and there's no way it took two World Wars to force the issue, and no way that was followed by more protest demonstrations and riots in our own lifetime.
Golly gee, none of that ever happened. It just all turned overnight like magic. I believe the Good Fairies sprinkling pixie dust was what puled it off so effortlessly.
/sarc
Gotta wonder what kind of mushrooms some people are plunking in their soup.
I do live in Alabama. Alabama is making progress but it is an agricultural state and has a high minority population with some counties >90% minority.
Two nights ago in his State of the State address to legislators Gov. Robert Bentley said this:
"Everyone in this room knows Alabama is one of the poorest states in America, where one in four children live in poverty. Nearly one million of our fellow Alabamians are dependent on Food Stamps."
Gov. Robert Bentley addressing state legislators Tuesday night
The governor went on to call the statistics of poverty sobering. And indeed they are when you begin to look at the numbers county by county. Poverty both connects and disconnects swathes of Alabamians from each other.
Isn't Alabama your home state ernie? Maybe you could get your state doing better before you share all that knowledge with the rest of the USA. You should read the rest of that article talking about education and poverty rates. Not good.
Yeah, I misspoke on the 75 years number. BFD. The point I was making is that blacks have had more than enough time to adjust to living as free men and they still can't do it (or aren't interested). They were making progress until the Democratic Party decided to put them all on welfare instead of helping them stand on their own. They willingly went back to the plantation and if you were any kind of a man you would be opposed to being bought off for your vote instead of defending it. Deny it all you want but you are still a slave. You just replaced your chains with a welfare check and food stamps. That's the black man's legacy.Jim Crow laws (courtesy of Bob Byrd Democrats you still support) ended in 1965, what's your point? I'm not off by 25 years. You're late by about 50 years. Republicans freed the slaves 150 years ago, Democrats struggled to find ways of keeping them ignorant and unemployed with Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, etc. The same Democrats you hold in high regard. Republicans have fought for equal rights for blacks since slavery. Don't tell me I'm off 25 years, it only shows your utter stupidity. You don't even know your own heritage. The Democratic Party has done a great job of keeping you ignorant and on the plantation. You're still a slave.WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.
"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. "They don't work."
Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.
True, but African-Americans are only 12.5% of the population, yet they take up 25.7% of the SNAP usage.
They make up a disproportionately high amount of government assistance.
That said... I agree with you that race is irrelevant. (assuming that's your point).
The problem is SNAP itself. The problem is, people who are not working, shouldn't be living off of those who are, and their race is irrelevant.
We need to kick them all off SNAP. Not just one race or another.
Jim Crow laws were(courtesy of CONSERVATIVE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS) officially in effect until 1965. You are off by about 25 years.
Carry on.
No. I am not a slave you moron. But YOU are ignorant and misinformed.
MY HERITAGE? YOU do not even know American history. Jim Crow laws did NOT end 75 years ago, in 1940 you dunce, and you cannot prove otherwise.
As far as democrats and their role in blocking the progress of civil rights legislation, pick up s history book and educate your stupid self.
It was a combination of SOUTHERN democrats AND republicans who tried in vain to block the progress of any civil rights reform.
Any high school graduate who as taken an American Governnent class knows that.
Instead of spewing made up wing nut talking points go get a GED. Or try using Google. But since you obviously seem to enjoy making a fool out of yourself, you likely have no intention of doing either, so I will spoon feed you just one time.
Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Next time you are on your own. Got it?
When our country is running a deficit, year after year, decade after decade, it automatically follows that most of the United States is spending more than it is collecting.
Democrats: Tax and spend.
Republicans: Borrow and spend.
Yeah, I misspoke on the 75 years number. BFD. The point I was making is that blacks have had more than enough time to adjust to living as free men and they still can't do it (or aren't interested). They were making progress until the Democratic Party decided to put them all on welfare instead of helping them stand on their own. They willingly went back to the plantation and if you were any kind of a man you would be opposed to being bought off for your vote instead of defending it. Deny it all you want but you are still a slave. You just replaced your chains with a welfare check and food stamps. That's the black man's legacy.Jim Crow laws (courtesy of Bob Byrd Democrats you still support) ended in 1965, what's your point? I'm not off by 25 years. You're late by about 50 years. Republicans freed the slaves 150 years ago, Democrats struggled to find ways of keeping them ignorant and unemployed with Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, etc. The same Democrats you hold in high regard. Republicans have fought for equal rights for blacks since slavery. Don't tell me I'm off 25 years, it only shows your utter stupidity. You don't even know your own heritage. The Democratic Party has done a great job of keeping you ignorant and on the plantation. You're still a slave.WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.
"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. "They don't work."
Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.
True, but African-Americans are only 12.5% of the population, yet they take up 25.7% of the SNAP usage.
They make up a disproportionately high amount of government assistance.
That said... I agree with you that race is irrelevant. (assuming that's your point).
The problem is SNAP itself. The problem is, people who are not working, shouldn't be living off of those who are, and their race is irrelevant.
We need to kick them all off SNAP. Not just one race or another.
Jim Crow laws were(courtesy of CONSERVATIVE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS) officially in effect until 1965. You are off by about 25 years.
Carry on.
No. I am not a slave you moron. But YOU are ignorant and misinformed.
MY HERITAGE? YOU do not even know American history. Jim Crow laws did NOT end 75 years ago, in 1940 you dunce, and you cannot prove otherwise.
As far as democrats and their role in blocking the progress of civil rights legislation, pick up s history book and educate your stupid self.
It was a combination of SOUTHERN democrats AND republicans who tried in vain to block the progress of any civil rights reform.
Any high school graduate who as taken an American Governnent class knows that.
Instead of spewing made up wing nut talking points go get a GED. Or try using Google. But since you obviously seem to enjoy making a fool out of yourself, you likely have no intention of doing either, so I will spoon feed you just one time.
Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Next time you are on your own. Got it?
Yeah, I misspoke on the 75 years number. BFD. The point I was making is that blacks have had more than enough time to adjust to living as free men and they still can't do it (or aren't interested). They were making progress until the Democratic Party decided to put them all on welfare instead of helping them stand on their own. They willingly went back to the plantation and if you were any kind of a man you would be opposed to being bought off for your vote instead of defending it. Deny it all you want but you are still a slave. You just replaced your chains with a welfare check and food stamps. That's the black man's legacy.Jim Crow laws (courtesy of Bob Byrd Democrats you still support) ended in 1965, what's your point? I'm not off by 25 years. You're late by about 50 years. Republicans freed the slaves 150 years ago, Democrats struggled to find ways of keeping them ignorant and unemployed with Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, etc. The same Democrats you hold in high regard. Republicans have fought for equal rights for blacks since slavery. Don't tell me I'm off 25 years, it only shows your utter stupidity. You don't even know your own heritage. The Democratic Party has done a great job of keeping you ignorant and on the plantation. You're still a slave.WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.
"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. "They don't work."
Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.
True, but African-Americans are only 12.5% of the population, yet they take up 25.7% of the SNAP usage.
They make up a disproportionately high amount of government assistance.
That said... I agree with you that race is irrelevant. (assuming that's your point).
The problem is SNAP itself. The problem is, people who are not working, shouldn't be living off of those who are, and their race is irrelevant.
We need to kick them all off SNAP. Not just one race or another.
Jim Crow laws were(courtesy of CONSERVATIVE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS) officially in effect until 1965. You are off by about 25 years.
Carry on.
No. I am not a slave you moron. But YOU are ignorant and misinformed.
MY HERITAGE? YOU do not even know American history. Jim Crow laws did NOT end 75 years ago, in 1940 you dunce, and you cannot prove otherwise.
As far as democrats and their role in blocking the progress of civil rights legislation, pick up s history book and educate your stupid self.
It was a combination of SOUTHERN democrats AND republicans who tried in vain to block the progress of any civil rights reform.
Any high school graduate who as taken an American Governnent class knows that.
Instead of spewing made up wing nut talking points go get a GED. Or try using Google. But since you obviously seem to enjoy making a fool out of yourself, you likely have no intention of doing either, so I will spoon feed you just one time.
Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Next time you are on your own. Got it?
Yeah, I misspoke on the 75 years number. BFD. The point I was making is that blacks have had more than enough time to adjust to living as free men and they still can't do it (or aren't interested). They were making progress until the Democratic Party decided to put them all on welfare instead of helping them stand on their own. They willingly went back to the plantation and if you were any kind of a man you would be opposed to being bought off for your vote instead of defending it. Deny it all you want but you are still a slave. You just replaced your chains with a welfare check and food stamps. That's the black man's legacy.Jim Crow laws (courtesy of Bob Byrd Democrats you still support) ended in 1965, what's your point? I'm not off by 25 years. You're late by about 50 years. Republicans freed the slaves 150 years ago, Democrats struggled to find ways of keeping them ignorant and unemployed with Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, etc. The same Democrats you hold in high regard. Republicans have fought for equal rights for blacks since slavery. Don't tell me I'm off 25 years, it only shows your utter stupidity. You don't even know your own heritage. The Democratic Party has done a great job of keeping you ignorant and on the plantation. You're still a slave.WASHINGTON -- Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps.
"I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks,'" Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. "They don't work."
Nationally, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.
True, but African-Americans are only 12.5% of the population, yet they take up 25.7% of the SNAP usage.
They make up a disproportionately high amount of government assistance.
That said... I agree with you that race is irrelevant. (assuming that's your point).
The problem is SNAP itself. The problem is, people who are not working, shouldn't be living off of those who are, and their race is irrelevant.
We need to kick them all off SNAP. Not just one race or another.
Jim Crow laws were(courtesy of CONSERVATIVE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS) officially in effect until 1965. You are off by about 25 years.
Carry on.
No. I am not a slave you moron. But YOU are ignorant and misinformed.
MY HERITAGE? YOU do not even know American history. Jim Crow laws did NOT end 75 years ago, in 1940 you dunce, and you cannot prove otherwise.
As far as democrats and their role in blocking the progress of civil rights legislation, pick up s history book and educate your stupid self.
It was a combination of SOUTHERN democrats AND republicans who tried in vain to block the progress of any civil rights reform.
Any high school graduate who as taken an American Governnent class knows that.
Instead of spewing made up wing nut talking points go get a GED. Or try using Google. But since you obviously seem to enjoy making a fool out of yourself, you likely have no intention of doing either, so I will spoon feed you just one time.
Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Next time you are on your own. Got it?
