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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's also demonstrably false. There are over 125k blacks on welfare in the city. 2 of every five black residents are either unable or unwilling to look after themselves. Essentially 1% of the whites in DC have this affliction. [/quote]

Cite your statistics or stop spewing this garbage.  What do you mean by welfare?[/quote]

Grok 4. SNAP. Do you find the 40% and 1% surprising? I thought both figures would be twice what they are. I was surprised. [/quote]

SNAP is food stamps.  No one could live only on food stamps, which come out to about $200 per person.  Welfare is TANF, which is a much smaller number.  You're being misleading.

Everyone knows that DC has an unusually small number of impoverished white people because the vast majority of the middle class and poor white people left between the 1960s and 2000.  In DC, most white people were wealthy or moved into the city, so you're selecting for the wealthiest and most capable white people when you look at white people in DC, which is not the case for the black population.

In general in the US 44.5% of food stamp benefits go to non-hispanic white families.[/quote]

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