A lot of it is about President Reagan's reference(s)to "welfare queens" ripping off the system. Somehow blacks thought he was talking about them. Of course the Gipper never referred to race.
HAH! Your post reminds me of the white girls I saw profiled in People magazine, with their multiple bastard children. I can forgive a person one mistake, but don't keep making the same one over and over and handing me the bill. That was after Reagan though, it must have been some sob-story prompted by Clinton's signing of welfare reform. And how these poor gals couldn't keep having children that we, the taxpayers, were supposed to support. I just wondered who was watching their existing children while they were out partying and making more. They were all white, they were all white, midwestern WELFARE QUEENS!
The Welfare Queen's statement was made when he was still Gov of Calif, and he was going to slash welfare. to the Caddy driving welfare queens.