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The New 'Welfare Queens'

Posted on October 10, 2008

The attempt to blame minorities for the financial crisis is disgusting :The New Welfare Queens , by Ed Kilgore: Throughout this long presidential campaign, there's been endless discussion of race as a factor. But until recently, such talk revolved around hard-to-assess white fears about Barack Obama's racial identity, along with efforts to conjure up the ancient hobgoblin of the Scary Black Man via images of Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Now, in the wake of the ongoing financial crisis, racism has entered the campaign conversation from an unexpected direction. In the fever swamps o...

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