Reply #452: you are 100% correct this should NOT be a racial issue

[brindis_desala]

and I should have said that these are issues that affect minorities disproportionately but NOT exclusively by any means. That's the tragedy of our country. Somehow poverty gets overlooked because somehow if you're white and poor it's YOUR fault when the fault lies in the system. Unfortunately when Reagan spoke of welfare queens it was code for black and lazy and a lot of people are manipulated into believing that discrimination only affects people of color. And yes I have to concur, this is an issue of HUMAN rights and it is always framed badly but the Congressional Black Caucus and the Latinos are only ones willing talk about much less fix the deep divide in this country.