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Growing up in the seventies and eighties, all my female cousins were pregnant, unmarried and on welfare. They were all white.
The racist shit is just meant to divide the poor. There are more poor white people than black.
There are more white people than black who receive gov assistance.
There are a whole bunch of historical reasons as to why black families may be more prone to poverty in the US. The system was literally built to ensure that remains true.
Not the person you replied to, but that's not what they said.
They said there's more poor black people than white. Total numbers, not per capita.
But its also false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
Edit:
Actually
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/who-is-receiving-social-safety-net-benefits.html
I was just trying to add historical context, not make any claims about statistics.
Whatever the rate is, it's worse than it should be for people of color due to hundreds of years of systemic racism that's still built into the system.
Thats fair.
I'm adding actual stattics so people here can discuss facts and not what they think is true.
Which sounds absolutely amazing if they were all happy to be there.
But that's only assuming they were in stable relationships, sucks to be a lonely mother.