[driftless2]

Honest to God, I’ve been hearing this crap for the last fifty years. It never changes. No matter what legislation is passed giving blacks special benefits or how many programs Congress passes to “help” poor (and predictably “oppressed”) blacks, according to the majority of blacks, this is still a horrible, racist country dominated by a white power structure (institutional racism) that keeps blacks down. Yes, that’s all every white American thinks about is how they can oppress black people. I’m sick of it and at the end of my rope.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: It never changes.

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Heritage Foundation article from Jun 24, 1998 -

"The poverty industry has joined forces with the race-grievance industry, and together they suppress reform that could have the power to uplift those low-income ..."

.. and going way back

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. ~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.) ~ Educator, Author, Civil Rights Leader

[chimera]

The number I saw was something like $38 trillion squandered since the mid-1960s on these failed “social programs” and what have we got to show for it? Riots in the streets. An entire racial minority destroyed by the entitlement mentality. 80% fatherless homes for children to be raised in. Yet the liberals keep pushing for more. End of your rope? Hey, not just you, but tens of millions of others. Time to cut off that rope and say no more handouts to those who think they are owed them because of their supposed “oppressed class”.