Original sin: it’s still with us

Original sin

by digby

Last week I published a post about the bogus charge that Obama is relaxing work requirements for welfare and I included a comment from a rally attendee:

“I really don’t want to help somebody who just decides, ‘Oh, well, I was raised on welfare. I can raise my children on welfare,’ ” Malcolm said. “I had a cousin who, she is a registered nurse and the stories she told me about people coming in there and having babies just so they could get more on their food stamps and more on their welfare. It’s like no, I don’t want to take care of those people.”

To me this is obviously about race. And as I’ve written dozens of times, it is an attitude that goes all the way back to America’s original sin and is a primary reason why we are uniquely hostile to the welfare state.

Corey Robin tweeted this little piece of evidence this morning:

Chris Hayes’ show this morning featured an excellent discussion of this issue:

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