Why In The Hell Do White Folks Continue To Believe That Black Folks Don't Work, Don't Like Working, Or Refuse To Work?

I don't get this one. I live in a predominantly white state, I mean WHITE. I see plenty of white people not working, getting public assistance, homeless, and PLENTY of hard-working white folks losing their jobs due to plants closing, businesses folding and moving. Yet, it never crosses my mind to say those people are lazy, they want a hand-out, or they just won't work.

And shocks me further that in the states that have some of the largest numbers of unemployed white folks, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, Kentucky, etc...... These are the main places where the most vicious racist statements against the President and black folks are coming from. That doesn't make sense. If a white person doesn't have a job or is having difficulty getting one, why would they think it's any easier for a black person?

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