September 18, 2012
"You can paint a similar history of the welfare state, which was first secured by assuring racist white Democrats that the pariah of black America would be cut out of it. When such machinations became untenable, the strategy became to claim the welfare state mainly benefited blacks. And as that has become untenable, the strategy has become to target the welfare state itself, with no obvious mention of color. At each interval the ostensible pariah grows, until one in two Americans are members of the pariah class."

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, on why we are all welfare queens now.

10:20am
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Filed under: Politics Romney Election 2012 47 percent Taxes History Racism 
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