Black privilege is being able to get money easily if you’re in poverty.
It’s harder for non-black people. Now, we have affirmative action, welfare, etc., all catering to black people.
“Welfare is a program largely for low-income female-headed families with children under 18. Therefore, the more relevant statistics concern the racial breakdown for these families. Comparing columns 2–4 to column 5, we see a different picture emerge: the poorer the population, the greater the proportion of nonwhites. The percentage of families with children under 18 and incomes below 100 percent of the poverty line in 2003 which were white was 37 percent, while it was 36 percent for both those below 75 percent of poverty and 50 percent of poverty. The percentage of families who were black increased from 39 to 41 percent for those below 1.00 of the poverty line compared to those below 0.75 of the poverty line, and remained at 41 percent for those families below 0.5 of the poverty line.
“In addition, when we compare these data to the last column, which indicates the racial breakdown of families receiving TANF, we find that blacks are underrepresented. Only 38 percent of the families receiving welfare were black, while 39 percent of families with children were under the poverty line and 41 percent under 0.5 of the poverty line were black. Therefore, while there is reason to believe that in our post–civil rights era racial barriers to accessing welfare have been repealed, the data do not prove that black underrepresentation on welfare is a thing of the past. Instead, they suggest that blacks may still not be receiving assistance at a rate comparable to their level of need…
“Figure 1 presents the results from one such study, indicating the effect of an increase in the percentage of the state’s welfare population that is black on the probability of stringent reforms. As the percentage of the welfare population that is black rises, the probability of adopting full-family sanctions increases from 54 to 97 percent, the probability of adopting a family cap rises from 5 percent to 96 percent, and the probability of adopting a time-limit shorter than five years increases from 10 to 88 percent…
“Bureaucratic encounters between clients and caseworkers suggests additional evidence of explicit race bias. Susan Gooden has published a series of studies on racial discrimination in the administration of welfare reform. Her research suggests that the differential rates at which white and nonwhite clients access education and training under welfare reform result not from coincidence or differences in client backgrounds and attitudes, but from unequal treatment by caseworkers. For example, “in two Virginia counties 41 percent of white clients reported their caseworker continued to promote education, compared to none of the black clients.” Gooden also examined the degree to which caseworkers assisted clients in securing child care and transportation—key factors affecting a client’s ability to get and keep a job. While she did not find differentials in clients being directed to child care solutions, she did find that caseworkers tended to make extra efforts to help white, but not black, clients solve transportation problems.”
In short:
- People of color are actually under-represented in welfare programs.
- Where there are more people of color using welfare programs, they are actually more likely to deal with more stringent requirements for receiving welfare, not less (i.e. it’s more difficult for people of color to receive assistance.)
- People of color experience discrimination from those who provide services associated with various welfare programs, and therefore may be under-served by those programs when compared with white recipients.
So no. Not really. But keep making these sorts of statements based on little more than racist stereotypes and anecdotes passed around by conservatives. It makes you look smart credible racist.