| Libertine |
10-14-2005 07:27 AM |
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Originally Posted by sweetcuties
Fact, most white people are on welfare, not black or any other minority
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Wrong, most people on welfare are white, which isn't the same thing at all. That most people on welfare are white, however, should not come as a surprise since:
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white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2% (2003 est.)
note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.) (source: CIA World Factbook)
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Which, by the way, makes the following fact rather interesting:
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In 1997, blacks constituted 49.2 percent of the prison population and whites 48.3 percent. (source: Margaret Werner Cahalan, Historical Corrections Statistics in the United States, 1850-1984, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (December 1986), Table 3.31; BJS, "Prisoners in 1998.")
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