It’s because they want to paint poverty as a minority problem and helping the poor as helping minorities
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I am white and poor. I am sick and tired of systemic racism.
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perpetuating the myth that whites can't be poor?
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ok but what % of black families are living below poverty ?
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https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2017/cb17-ff01.html … says 25% vs national rate of 14%
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The power of the stereotype
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liberal bias. exaggerating the plight of black people
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Sounds like it was lopsided coverage, doesn't t? Perpetuates a myth about poverty in America, but poverty no less and that's not something we should easily dismiss.
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Similarly, I recently did some independent research into use of the descriptor "working-class" in newspapers and found that it was almost exclusively applied to "whites" (usually men). This too is a serious distortion of reality.
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Maybe that's why "white privelege" is not the best way to characterize that concept
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f*ck this sh*t, journalists so committed to upholding the status quo of everything that they distort the true state of affairs. After all, **black** poverty can be explained away in any number of racist or nonracist ways. And they're counting on racist readers who don't care
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Smh
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There’s something in here as a resolution for 2018 about race and gender stereotyping I’m sure!!!
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Fake news media
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Splendid take on this complex issue.
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They were too busy asking poor white families how much they love their glorious leader
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