Arkansas campaign ad depicts white welfare recipient, conservatives criticize casting

Reagan really did a number on white America with his "Black welfare queen driving a Cadillac," and now they CANNOT believe it was BS then and still. www.rawstory.com/arkansas-wel...

About 60% of people enrolled in ARHOME, the Arkansas Medicaid program covered by Sanders' new work requirements, are white, according to state Department of Human Services data cited by the Associated Press. About 18% are Black.

Matt Walsh raged that Sanders' Medicaid freeloader ad starred a white guy instead of a Black woman. Arkansas data shows about 60 percent of ARHOME enrollees are white and 18 percent Black. A Republican consultant called the complaint overtly racist.

Always a bit funny when the mask slips because somebody on their own side forgot "welfare reform" is a euphemism for 19th Century racist stereotypes and actually believed the issue was welfare reform.

With the demographics of Medicaid recipients in the news (apnews.com/article/welf...), here's a closer look at who's enrolled in the program: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Because apparently only black women are allowed to be portrayed this way ... "Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white." apnews.com/article/welf...

Lol. Some of these people really can't take what they dish out. apnews.com/article/welf...

So the racist are mad they didn’t show a black person 🤦🏻‍♀️ Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white apnews.com/article/welf...

This hilarious, because more white people are on welfare than any other group. apnews.com/article/welf...

Far and away, the biggest welfare threat is corporate welfare. Bail outs for billionaires when they screw up and then expect our tax dollars to fix it for them. Talk about welfare Queens. apnews.com/article/welf...

Wouldn't it be nice if Arkansas could just become another country and get the hell out of ours? 🤦🏼‍♀️ apnews.com/article/welf...

How dare they accuse a lazy white dude of being a lazy white dude! apnews.com/article/welf...

MAGA's frothing demands for a Black 'welfare queen' ad collapse under red state's own data www.rawstory.com/arkansas-wel...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social #Arkansas resident here. Looks like Reagan's welfare queen trope was clearly understood to be non-white.

1) apnews.com/article/welf... … But the decision to portray an unemployed moocher as a young, white, cheeseball-chomping gamer named Brad upset some conservative commentators last week. Five