The response…
No offense or racist remarks here, but maybe (just maybe) the reason that some people draw a parallel from welfare receiving mothers to black females is the fact that comparedly, the number of mothers on welfare who are black is signifigantly higher (by percentage) than the number of welfare mothers who are not black.
PART 1:
In the decade of 1990-2000, 13% of Americans were on government assistance in one form or another, for a term of two years or more. That means of the USA’s 281.42 million, 36.58 million were on welfare (All types.) Now, lets remove the group least likely to breed (the elderly.) The elderly (those over 65 yoa) comprised 12.4% of the US, (at 35.00 million.) Of that 35.00 million, 12.20 million (4.3% of the entire National population) were on welfare for more than 2 years. Now, this includes Social Security as well as AFDC. Subtract these out and you’ve got 24.38 million people on welfare.
Of these 24.38 million people, 9.26 million are white (38.8%), 9.06 million are black (37.2%) and the rest are ‘other’ (24%, or 5.85 million.) There are 34.70 million blacks living in the US (or 12.3% of the total population.) Of that 34.70 million blacks, 9.06 million are on welfare (or 26.11% of blacks live on non-Social Security welfare.) There are 211.51 million whites in the USA (75.15% of the total population. Of that 211.51 million, 9.26 million are on welfare (or 4.37% of whites live on non-Social Security welfare.)
Please compare that 26.11% of blacks on welfare to 4.37% of whites. By percentages, blacks are more likely to go on welfare, and that includes children.
Part 2:
Your title says “All those Illegitimate Breeding Machines,” indicating that illegitimacy is an issue here, yet you fail to address it in your op. I’m assuming you’re tying this in to Daisy Cutter’s comments which have been seen as ‘racist.’ So lets do this by race, shall we? From 1990 to 2000, 25.9 million kids were born in the USA. [Yay, babies are so special, aren’t they?] 11.8 million were white. 4.7 million were black. The rest were ‘other’ (asians, hispanics, indians, Asian indians, arabs, etc.) Statistically, 23% of white kids are born out of wedlock and are illegitimate (2.74 million newborns from 1990-2000.) 71% of black kids are born out of wedlock and are illegitimate (3.34 million newborns from 1990-2000.) For general comparison, black kids are nearly three times as likely not to have a daddy as white kids.
Now, to tie in those stats to the welfare stats. Statistically, 26.11% of blacks are on welfare (again, 9.06 million.) Of those, 55.3% were unwed parents and their children (5.01 million.) 4.37% of whites live on welfare (9.26 million.) Of those, 40.2% are undwed parents and there children (3.72 million.)
So, of the ENTIRE non-social security welfare pie, 35.81% of it goes to unwed parents and their bastard children, and of THAT 57.38% goes to unwed blacks and their bastard kids, compared to 42.61% going to unwed whites and their bastard kids. Just chew on that when you question perception. Sometimes the general “Well, it seems like it” is closer to the truth than you might want to admit.
Part 3:
To answer Alien’s questions:
1: Are poor people allowed to fuck? Well, yea. Anyone over their appropriate ages of consent are allowed to fuck. Its a privlidge which is being held in high regards these days (such court rulings as Lawrence v. Texas show this.) Yea, go and fuck.
2: Aren’t poor people allowed to have accidents when they fuck? Well, depends on what you mean by ‘accident.’ A car wreck would be neglegent assault if you caused it by fucking :D. All kidding aside, I’m assuming you mean get pregnant. Its not a quesiton of being allowed to (you are allowed to) so much as it being a question of whether it is sensable to or morally correct to (not going with the Christian ethos, more of a social ethos. Is it morally correct to get your ass on welfare because you’ve got a baby you can’t support, even though you knew when you created the baby, eg, got laid, that you would be unable to support it?) You are allowed to get pregnant, but you’re socially WRONG for doing so if you then go and get welfare.
3: Should the government subsidize condoms for poor people, or maybe even (gasp) pay for abortions? UGHGODDDDD!..no. The whole condom thingy has fallen on deaf ears in my town (you can go to the Department of Health and Enviromental Control and get rolls of 'em…but unplanned pregnancies still arise.) As far as the welfare abortion bit, what fucking planet are you living on? In the US, teenage pregnancies have declined some 29% across the board. This coencides with a 1.2% decrease in abortions. The only causial factor that has been directly attributed to this is the concurrent reduction in welfare for poor and unwed mothers. They aren’t getting money, so they stop having babies. I could see the condom thing, but the abortion thing would merely increase the number of abortions, not add nor detract from the welfare roles.
(Cites: 1:US Census for 1990-2000. 2:Centers for Disease Control Studies on Youth Behavior and Risk in Regards to Welfare and Illegitimacy. 3:Marital Status and Fertility in the United States: Welfare and Labor Market Effects by T. P. Schultz of Yale Univ. 4: AFDC Statistics (provided by the Office Of Family Assistance.)