alwaysbewoke:

sweetcribs:

alwaysbewoke:

This is not the first time white ppl have pulled shit like this. From the New Deal to the GI Bill, they have found ways to exclude Black people from benefits while pouring it on white people without explicitly stating so. Just through a slight of legal tricky.

If this passes the benefits to white people and the harm to black and other POC will be enormous but it won’t stop racists and coons from talking all that “bootstrap” shit.

Michigan’s Proposed Medicaid Work Requirement Comes With a Racist Twist – http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/michigans-medicaid-work-requirement-comes-with-racist-twist.html

How Medicaid work requirements can exempt rural whites but not urban blacks – https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/3/17315382/medicaid-work-requirements-michigan-race

The racial redlining in Michigan’s Medicaid work requirements – https://thinkprogress.org/the-racial-redlining-in-michigans-medicaid-work-requirements-77d99f29bf70/

Michigan To Poors: Get Jobs Or Lose Medicaid (Unless You Are White)  – https://wonkette.com/633452/michigan-to-poors-get-jobs-or-lose-medicaid-unless-you-are-white#OHr3ejrJ8TtcSF47.99

in 2018 we are still passing laws to give white people a leg up on top of all the laws passed in the past that gave white people a leg up. all this while people want to talk about “bootstraps” and “racism isn’t a thing” and “black people are just lazier” and “post-racial” and shit.

^^^^^^