(Opinion) Moving Out of Poverty – Three Generations of Women
“Unfortunately, Whites tend to think it’s fine when other Whites benefit from government programs, but take issue when people of color do the same thing. As Donald Trump and his administration work to dismantle the federal assistance programs that moved my mother, me and, in many ways, my daughter out of poverty, much of their underlying reason is linked to American racism. While I wish that Whites would realize that everyone in our nation is deserving of a chance to move out of poverty as a matter of social justice, I know that this is not the case. Perhaps, if more Whites realized how interconnected our futures are and that if all of us are to succeed, move out of poverty, and truly ‘Make America Great,” we must support the programs that lift all people out of poverty and not merely the people that look like us.”