Amiri King
@AmiriKing
I’m glad you brought it up. Let’s discuss:
12.5% of the total U.S. population receives SNAP benefits. (41.9m)
39% of SNAP recipients are white
27% of SNAP recipients are black
(I left out Hispanic, Asian, blah blah blah for sake of conversation)
69% of Americans are white (231.9m) so it only makes sense that this would reflect in SNAP recipients.
Only 12.5% of Americans are black (41.6m), so that should reflect a low number in SNAP recipients, yes?
No. Let’s continue.
11.3m SNAP recipients are black.
This equates to over 1/4 of the entire black population receiving some form of welfare. Alarm bells should be ringing.
In turn, 16.3m SNAP recipients are white. This accounts for less than a tenth (7.02% to be exact) of the white population receiving welfare. (Still alarming.)
As far as political affiliation of SNAP recipients, let’s just say I’ve never met a man with a MAGA hat and a food stamp card.
Even more importantly, I’m starting to think that there is a direct correlation between purple hair dye and brain damage.
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