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Right-Wingers Are Mad Anti-Welfare Ad Isn't Racist Enough
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When looking at stats, you shouldn’t look at absolute numbers, you need to look at distribution too. According to google US is approximately 59% white, and 13% black, and food stamp numbers are 38% white and 25% black. So there does seem to be truth to if you are black you are more likely to be on food stamps.
Systemic racism might play a factor here.
Sure but in context that should not matter at all if the question is what demographic is the appropriate choice to represent the typical US welfare recipient. In this case total numbers are more relevant than relative proportion, you'd want the median person.
More than 1/3 of just under 2/3 of the population vs 1/4 of slightly over 1/10 of the population.
Rough estimates
White on food stamps: 76.2 million
Black on food stamps: 11.1 million
That’s my point though, those numbers are meaningless. What if I gave you these numbers:
White not on food stamps: 122.6 million
Black not on food stamps: 33.2 million
There are zero valid conclusions to be drawn.
Analyzing the actual numbers, it seems a random black person is 3x more likely to be on food stamps than a random white person in the US.
(0.25/0.13) / (0.38/0.59) = 2.99
Also, if there are 100 evenly distributed welfare recipients in a room, and you pick one at random, it is more likely they will be white than black.
Might? Centuries of being held down at every turn and prevented from accumulating generational wealth "might" be a factor in modern poverty?
Not everything is literal my guy. Try reading between the lines.
Try being honest.
Holy shit lol this gave me a chuckle. Thanks for that.