The true face of welfare is not some 19-year-old black woman with three children and one on the way, but a white woman in her 20s with one child. The term “welfare queen” comes from Ronald Reagan when he ran for president in 1976. He told the story of a black woman who made $150,000 (36,000 crowns) from gaming welfare. She drove a Cadillac, he informed us. The press tried to find this woman. They wanted to put her on the evening news. They never found her. Reagan had made it up. Yet the idea stuck – because it is a convenient lie for well-to-do whites to believe. The bit of the stereotype that does have some truth to it, sad to say, is the number of black women who are bringing up children without a husband. In 1994 about half of all households with black children had no father at home. Compare that to one in five for white children – which is how it was for black children once upon a time back in 1960. But that is another story.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 04:00:39 +0000
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