My latest on this is up: bsky.app/profile/lawy...

"majority of recipients of government aid are white. For decades, however, TV shows, movies and the news media have portrayed Black people as imp"

"Centrist" biased editors caring only about other old mediocre white men, conservatives, Ivies, CEOs, macho police officers, "heartland" white "farmers"

The continued failure of mainstream media to recognize or acknowledge the racial demographic anxiety undergirding and enabling the political moment and eroding of democracy, government and the safety net, is an abdication that makes us complicit.

This is why so many politicians, and too many journalists, feel the need to show that white people need these programs in order to show that the “right” people — the deserving — also need these programs. Yet in covering the opposition to food stamps, etc, they rarely mention how racialized it is.

Republicans understand that the best way to kill social programs is to paint their beneficiaries as Black, as support for these programs declines — even amongst white people who need them — when they think large numbers of Black people will benefit.

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