NAACP Demands End to Lotto Because It's Racist

Breitbart.com ^ | 06/27/2012 | KDAF-Dallas Unattributed

[Silentgypsy]

Juanita Wallace, the president of the NAACP Dallas Chapter: “It’s the poor people, the uneducated people who spend the most money on the Lottery and it’s not going for [them] the way they thought it was going to go,”

[maineman]

The NBA lottery?

[Wyatt's Torch]

The lottery is a tax on stupidity. Good to know who those are.

[DYngbld]

The worst of it is for the most part, they didn't earn the money in the first place,

I have heard this at 7-11

"Let me use this EBT card to buy a soda, candy bar, and bag of chips. Here is $10 I want a powerball, and some scratch tickets."

[LouAvul]

Yeah. And like, blacks didn’t gamble before the lottery. /s

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Truthfully, lotteries do harm the poor. However, there might be a way around this, with a “faux lottery” that actually helps the poor.

States usually use lottery profits for some statewide program, like education. However, with some tailoring, lottery proceeds from poor neighborhoods might be skimmed off and used exclusively to improve those neighborhoods.

On the surface they would look like a normal lottery, but it could be used for all sorts of things that would directly benefit the people who lived there.

An example would be to set up a local farmer’s market, run by the locals, with artificially low prices for food.

But it would turn a ripoff into something good for the dimwits who play the lottery.

[Hotlanta Mike]

So if these people bet on “Hope and Change” can we outlaw the candidate who promised that?

[umgud]

Lotto is part of my retirement plan. I play it every week and am convinced that I’ll hit it big at least once before retirement age. /s

[newzjunkey]

and the lottery is a tax on stupidity

I'm sick of this. If you go in eyes open, knowing your chances of winning how is it a "tax on stupidity?"

Paying more for the same item at a grocery store that makes you feel more "comfortable" than the one across the street? That is a tax on stupidity.

[MHGinTN]

The stupidity of NAACP duplicity is astonishig. If we use this person’s reasoning then all planned barrenhood ‘clinics’ should be closed because too many blacks use them volutarily. But then, to this group of humans the slaughter of their posterity is justified by some magic thinking they use which I have yet to fathom.

[scrabblehack]

That makes as much sense as Social Security.

[CaptainMorgantown]

Actually, this is the first time in a long time that I’ve agreed with something the NAACP said. I have no objection to gambling, but the government absolutely should not be in the business of promoting it.

Furthermore, the state lottery organizations generally become bloated beauraracies whose main mission is to sustain themselves. Only a small fraction of their revenues find their way back into useful projects. A huge percentage of state lottery budgets goes back into advertising and promotion. And unlike private casinos, who advertise the fun and excitement of the experience but never imply that you’re going to win, government run lotteries run advertisements that border on fraud in the way they practically promise that you will win.

Gambling is a business that the government ought to be policing, not running.

[CaptainMorgantown]

Actually, this is the first time in a long time that I’ve agreed with something the NAACP said. I have no objection to gambling, but the government absolutely should not be in the business of promoting it.

Furthermore, the state lottery organizations generally become bloated beauraracies whose main mission is to sustain themselves. Only a small fraction of their revenues find their way back into useful projects. A huge percentage of state lottery budgets goes back into advertising and promotion. And unlike private casinos, who advertise the fun and excitement of the experience but never imply that you’re going to win, government run lotteries run advertisements that border on fraud in the way they practically promise that you will win.

Gambling is a business that the government ought to be policing, not running.

[UCANSEE2]

If they had paid attention in school, they would have learned a little bit about odds and percentages and other useless stuff.

Isn't it odd that when GAMBLING was made LEGAL, they told us it was 'for the chilluns'?

That gambling would provide MORE THAN ENOUGH MONEY for SCHOOLS ?

Yet, schools have gotten worse. Wonder where all that money goes ?

[Slings and Arrows]

Under the Roberts Doctrine, the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.

[UCANSEE2]

but the fault of those leaders in the Black community who have indoctrinated their followers to believe that there’s a way to get rich without having to work for it.

Well, it works pretty well for Sharpton and Jackson, and Obama.

[WashingtonSource]

I demand an end to the NAACP because it is blatanlty and purely racist to the core.

[RoosterRedux]

Well, it works pretty well for Sharpton and Jackson, and Obama.

It does indeed...to the eternal detriment of the people they pretend to care about.

[Chode]

how about simply not letting blacks but lotto tickets??? problem solved

[Arrowhead1952]

Heard about this during the week. I used to play the $2.00 “Break the Bank” scratch off tickets and had several $20.00 - $400.00 winners. Once the winners dropped off, I quit. I still buy one or two tickets on new games and see if they may be something to try again.

[patriotsoul]

Then how come I’ve never won the lottery? I’m a white chick and still have not won!