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Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes racialized, demonized and stigmatized.

—Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)

(Source: nbcnews.com, via black-culture)