Well, campaigning on welfare is basically how the GOP played its southern strategy and stoked racist fears. Welfare and race are inherently intertwined in people's minds. That's why.
So because of something that may have happened 50 years ago, we cant have a civil and rational debate on the issue now? If a higher proportion of blacks are on welfare as is implied by the democratic response with the race card, it would be an injustice to them to not attempt to make the program better. But i guess that would just be silly, being rational and all.
Exactly. People like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson make it seem like society "owes" black people something. That's not true, of course. We don't owe them one single thing.
Right, because society doesn't owe black people a single thing. It's not like we horribly oppressed them for hundreds of years.
Define 'we'. I've never disenfranchised a black person and do not know of a single person who has. I certainly wasn't alive during the Civil War and Civil Rights eras. I don't feel as though I owe any particular community because of what people who share my skin color did to said community well before my years. Again who is 'we' that horribly oppressed the black community for hundreds of years? Perhaps you should take it up with them.
