TIL John Wayne, in a 1971 interview with Playboy, said: “I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t feel guilty about the fact that five or ten generations ago these people were slaves”

Nah man, if there's a jordans fairy out there I ain't never seen one, and if you're working under the table on foodstamps there's prolly a better way to be spending your money than on a $300 pair of shoes. You prolly don't even know how the game is played, I grew up with this shit, here's how they run it:

Girl gets knocked up by baby daddy, she applies for welfare because being a single mom is hell and she needs all the help she can get. Gets hooked up with everything: food stamps, WIC, public housing, healthcare, etc... What the man don't know is that baby daddy is staying up in the apartment too, stacking away his money, he ain't putting all that down on paper.. He's got a decent job working at the mill, maybe stacking away 45k a year while his girlfriend is home watching the kid so they don't even have to pay for daycare. Only thing he has to do is keep his address at his mom's house and pick up his mail, which is usually right down the way because she's also playing the game, after all where do you think he learned it. Now at this point they ain't got no bills and that 45k goes real far when you ain't on the line for food, housing, healthcare, utilities, etc... So at this point they're sitting pretty, but they're greedy and want more, and what better way to get more money than to have another kid. So now baby mama has another kid and puts that one down on the books so now there's even more welfare coming than before and they can keep on repeating until they're satisfied. That's how they run it, but there ain't no man sitting at the grocery store asking why the only thing they're buying is crab legs, or why they're whipping out the EBT and they're wearing a wardrobe that costs $1,000.

And you're right, in the grand scheme of shit this shit is miniscule, motherfuckers on WallStreet are the real hurt, but to me it ain't really about money. It's demoralizing waking up at 5 AM every morning, driving to work in a vehicle that's 13 years old, working at a job that just pays the bills, humping 12's and gettin it every Saturday just to save up enough to get some shit for me. Meanwhile the lazy motherfucker a paygrade below me is rollin in on a brand new care and working the least possible, because he ain't gotta impress the bossman to get overtime because he don't need it, he's got his shit right. Shit gets old man.

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