Struggling to survive on the Mississippi Delta: Inside the lives of some of America's poorest people

>Struggling to survive on the Mississippi Delta: Inside the lives of some of America's poorest people
>Persistent poverty has plagued the Mississippi Delta for decades
>In most Delta counties the poverty rate is 40 per cent, while nationally it's 15
>Most residents, like Otibehia Allen, barely make ends meet even with two jobs
>Mississippi is also one of 19 states that rejected Medicare expansion
>Medicare is government health insurance given to the poorest Americans
>Republican governor Phil Bryant says he doesn't want people taking government handouts
>Otibehia Allen (Pictured) struggles to raise her five children as a single mother in one of the poorest communities in the nation


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>Allen works 30 hours a week to make ends meet as a data entry clerk and transportation dispatcher for a medical clinic

>Barely making over minimum wage, Allen, 32 doesn't own a car, and public transportation is not widely available in the Delta

>Persistent poverty has plagued the Mississippi Delta for decades, suffering from neglect partly because state leaders are not willing to invest money into the community

>Under the Affordable Care Act passed by President Barack Obama, states were given the option to expand Medicare, government health insurance given to the poorest Americans

>But Mississippi was one of 19 states to reject program under second-term Republican governor Phil Bryant

>Bryant frequently says he doesn't want people to be dependent on government handouts

>Although opportunities have improved in the past 50 years, the Delta remains one of the most deprived regions in the US

>While the national poverty rate is 15 per cent, in most Delta counties it's 30 to 40 per cent

>Marian Wright (Pictured), a young civil rights lawyer working in Mississippi, founded Children's Defense Fund in 1973

>The Children's Defense Fund is a national group that advocates for social services for the poor

>Otibehia Allen, cries as she recalls the lack of opportunity, limited health care and child poverty, her five children face daily while addressing a forum on food and health insecurity in Jonestown

> Dr. Barbara Ricks (Pictured), a 49-year-old pediatrician, grew up poor in the Delta and paid for college with scholarships and jobs.

>the south is a shit hole full of rural retards that vote against their own interest
No shit?
>inb4 shitheel southern white trash angrily shitpost about northerners
Do this country a favor and secede. no one will stop you this this time because fuck you, northerners are sick of your bullshit.

>She has practiced medicine since 1999 in Greenville, one of the larger Delta cities population, providing healthcare to needy children in the area

Well then move elsewhere where the land is not shit.

The delta votes democrat

>implying political parties are anything beyond a contrived story
>implying the demoshits in the south are anything besides neocon scum in sheeps clothing
congrats. your post proves my point

>SOMEBODY GOTTA PAY FOR ALL THESE KIDS

Why do rural and suburban retards always have five kids? Super high iq city people who voted for Hillary have none.

All niggers did.

>Demonstrates that they vote for your team
>Backstabs them in order to maintain prejudiced notions
What a wonderful, genuine, and honest side of the aisle to be on.

Can you imagine what the south would look like with no blacks? The Mississippi Delta has some of the best real estate for trade routes, but it's full of niggers. Instead of shipping agricultural and manufacturing products from the midwest, they're living off food stamps

The Mississippi delta is full of blacks that vote democrat. Isn't that a dream for people like you? Why not move down there and engage in the cultural enrichment?

Yeah, I grew up around these people. If you were to give them jobs pying $10 /hour more, they would change exactly nothing about their lives, except they might have name brand mayonnaise and a new car.

>Poor as shit
>Have 9 kids with 5 different baby daddies

PAY FOR MY CHILDREN

>a poor single nigger with an amount of kids she can't support

So this whole thing is only being propagated for the muh best interest narrative?

LOOK MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!


Government handouts are not in the best interest of ANYONE!

KY and WV are both just as poor, with 90+% white populations.

It's funny that conservacucks wonder why their states are cesspools where no one wants to live without realizing that your communities are only as prosperous as those at the bottom.

>30 hours a week
Is that meant to be an impressive number? That's less than full-time...

>>>/reddit/

Except the majority white people can support themselves fine without government aid, they just abuse it because it's there. More kids=more people working, niggers don't work so it's just more mouths to feed.

I would rather live in either state than in California

I thought the same. Was literally working more at a higher rate back in high school.

These people need to work 80-90 hour weeks for at least a few years before I can even start to care. Anything less goes right into the ditch as it should.

I work 40 as a school teacher

Mississippi delta is the the most fertile land east of the rockies, it's full of blacks because that's where slaves where sent, the best farming land in the new world.

She shouldn't have had 5 children then

>Otibehia Allen (Pictured) struggles to raise her five children as a single mother in one of the poorest communities in the nation

Well theres the problem

>mississipi
>conservative

no, it's full of niggers. full to the brim. what I am saying is that it makes south Africa look like a white nation. the reason there is a republican governor is because most black people can't vote because they are felons or at just too stupid and lazy to do so.

Kentucky is poor, but proud and kind. Lots of hard working people living up there and you can't even compare the two states without Mississippi standing out as the glowing nigger pit of depravity it has always been. Also, KY has many many niggers as well.

you're just stupid and your numbers are all fucked up to begin with.

They've reverted to their genetic behavioral norms: they have an R selected breeding strategy, having several children with absentee men. They can't save resources, despite living in a region with an extremely low cost of living. They can't cooperate as a group, invest, or build their communities (even subsistences farmers of other races managed to build functional local economies and schools without government assistance). They live and act like Africans because they ARE Africans. This is the best they can do. Once in a while, an outlier will be born in the population, and become a doctor or a lawyer, but the statistical average of the group will not budge no batter what you do.

This was my red and my black pill.

t. Octaroon

Otibehia is a slave.

freedom is the ability to do anything because you're willing to take responsibility for your actions. the opposite of freedom is O-ti-be-hia's life of self-imposed slavery to gubmint gibs because she is unwilling or unable to live a life a freedom.

if over a decade in the work force has taught me anything it's that even a nigger that works doesn't really "work". They just show up every day, fuck off more than you could think possible, be loud and disruptive, fuck shit up, and cause arguments over nigger shit.

there are very few niggers that really "work". They really just show up to cost the company money.

living in the south, I have grown to hate them.

But one sorry like this for the last eight years, why is that?

That house looks nice

fuck poor people :)

Tbf, as a single mother she may need to invest her time in her kids.

Why did she have kids if she was poor?

all those motherfucking kids.

every one of them will grow up to get angry and take food off of my lower-middle class niece's plate and even violently demand to do so.

Gas em all.

that shack looks 110% comfy tho

>a nigger with 5 children work part time and still wonders why she doesnt have enough money

>mississippi delta
>shit land
voila, frog education

Gee. If she didn't give birth five times maybe she'd have a job or something like that to make a bit more money so she could afford a family?

dem checks.

she gets no less than 12k in tax returns.

what this stupid nigger does with it is beyond me. nobody has ever handed me that kind of money. I have a piece of shit car and a piece of shit house, but I paid for it. It was real hard to do without baby bonuses.

baby bonuses are killing this country and the morale of young white men.

If it was up to me she wouldn't get anything.

in her favor, her employer might be keeping her hours below full time so they can jew her out of benefits

>can jew her out of benefits
Not the employer's fault the feds are retarded

she can use that 12k tax return to pay for their benefits. foodstamps to pay for their food, and then all the other income is just pure pocket money.

DO NOT FEEL SORRY FOR THESE PEOPLE. THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN MORE THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE.

>be poor
>can barely feed herself
>have 5 niglets

I hate them so much... Niggers are nature's test to white people

>Mississippi is also one of 19 states that rejected Medicare expansion
I dunno if they are getting fined on top of it, but I wouldn't be surprised.

The Dems act like the ACA helped the poorest Americans. It really only helped the poor in blue states. Obama's legacy is a lie.

That VHS tape collection...

>i work part time because my inmate farm takes most of my time and energy
Shed be ok on 30hr probably sans the criminal caterpillars she bred. But her own decisions kept her there. Moreover, i couldnt raise one kid on 30hrs a week where i live. Let alone 4-6. Long story short - shes fucking stupid

That TV from the early 1980's...

Tip your fedora harder you no-empathy-having asshole

old vhs tapes are practically free. entire collection could easily be aquired for less than $5

>empathy
why would you have this for niggers who are destroying your country retard

fuck you.

I know how they game the system. you could buy them computers, give them free internet, free housing, free cars, and the whole 9 yards and 2 years later it would be back to square one.

12k tax returns my man. 12 k tax returns.

fuck you.

>oh she's working two jobs, how could she be barely making ends mee-
>has a bunch of fucking kids
Surprise surprise.
What does the 'ssipi delta even produce? It should be big on farming.

Young white men's moral is low all around the white world. I've been trying to get my shit together for a couple of years now, I'm having success but it hardly seems worth it.
>Here's your 30 year old used up Stacy that will inevitable cheat on you.
>You will break your back with for 1 or 2 kids while everyday seeing poor folk living of welfare with 4 or 5.
>Your culture will continue to rot and be a pozzed mess. It will cause you untold stress and preventing any children you have from being indoctrinated will be a 24h a day job.
>You will pay 4x what a house is actually worth because of boomer scum. Thus you can forget about vacations and shit, it's all going into that mortgage.
You look at this and ask yourself; 'what if I just played video games all day long instead?'

Where are the fatherS in this? If she doesnt get child support from the first deadbeat dindu...she is gonna continue to pop out more crumb-snatchers from other men?

No room for compassion on this one, pal.

At some level it makes you want to snap. People repress that urge deep though. They just sigh instead.
In the end, when there no money left for all this nonsense, it will be bad.

>5 kids

And now I don't care, fuck em

I do ask myself this.

Why I continue to do anything is a mystery to me. my quality of life sucks because all my money goes towards paying for my shit and a dozen niggers down the road.

I drive a beat up piece of shit to work every day as I see 8 fat niggers in a brand new SUV listening to jungle music on their way back home from spending 400 dollars in food stamps.

just kill me now desu.

>>dem checks.
>
>she gets no less than 12k in tax returns.

correct, but it's not a "return," as that implies something was paid in advance. she gets a tax subsidy.

you are correct sir.

I apologize for my error.

Kentucky and West Virginia besides for the heroin epidemic are fine. The amount of leftists damage control In this thread is insane. These are your rural retards this is your base

I only really work now to buy guns and ammo. I think the happening is that close. I think a lot of young white men are fucking desperate to see society crumble too.

I'd just fish at the river all day and chill out. Just be poor, but relaxed and eating fish all the time.

Wait the 12k tax return isn't a meme? She gets a deposit of 12 thousand fucking untaxed dollars????

Congratulations you guys just convinced me to go full neet until this is resolved.

I'll play video games all day and shit in a diaper at home before subsidizing this society for even a second.

We could probably have actual socialism if we just carved out an enclave for good people that wouldn't abuse it like this. These people are just the antithesis to civilization, aren't they?

Looks like an oppurtunity for an enterprising white businessman with a lot of capital to move into the area and lay claim to basically every single service that can be offered. But that would be racist, and I'm sure these niggers would drive them out with robberies and other assorted crime. Maybe one of the blacks who have escaped their deplorable economic condition could give back to the neighborhood in a similar way, and wouldn't be destroyed because of his race. Oh, he wouldn't waste his time, because despite being the same people, he would still have his business and property violated by niggers. I have no sympathy for the vast majority of the poor.

t. grew up poor and hispanic, all brothers and cousins now upper middle class

same senpai, but I have medical problems I can't afford to fix right now.

a happening may be the only way to give me the death I deserve at this point and I would honestly embrace it knowing that my government wouldn't have the opportunity to kill me by forcing me to work to pay some nigger's cable bill and free healthcare.

so yeah, I'm one of those white men although I am no longer young anymore due to a life of hard labor. Valhalla or heaven, either one is good enough for me at this point.

I don't deserve the death of a slave.

America is a shithole not even our native reserves are as shit as american neughborhoods.

Between EITC and CTC the max works out to about $3,300 per child.

Leftist damage control

>that watermelon picture

I wish you the best when it goes down but unless you are highly skilled (gunsmith or some other super-useful post collapse skill ) I couldn't give a fuck what happens to the old people. They created this situation after all.
I'm not joking either, if I see old boomers getting their doors kicked in by random strangers I will simply ignore them.
Shit I'll ignore any women past breeding age. That's how ruthlessly I will view the situation.

>single with 5 kids
>it's Mississippi that's the problem

yes, not a meme.

when I was younger I was working for an automotive parts manufacturer and working 70 hours a week. I then switched jobs to Walmart because I had a girlfriend that talked me into working there with her (she was the manager and we did our thing privately so the other employees wouldn't say anything).

As I was working I was talking about all the tax money (1400 dollars) I would be getting back and how I was in dire need of it.

In come donkretia and she says, no joke, "shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeet I dun got 10k back and got me a new car and some mo' shit". The worst part is that she only worked 2 days a week and called in half of those.

Don't be a wageslave my man. I know you feel the need to be a productive member of our world as do and did I, but in reality you are only working to give some nigger disposable money as you struggle.

It's a sick sad world and I wish it was a meme. I really do. I've worked hard all my life, bought a shitty house, and own a shitty care (one of many over the years) and nobody has ever given me shit. Now I'm older and my body is fucked up from working like a slave and NOBODY is making documentaries about how I need help and did the right thing all my life even if it fucked me over. nah, it's dem poor niggas dat need duh attention.

fuck em. I've spent my life paying for their existence as mine seems to be drawing to an end.

Don't do it bro. Get ready for the happening.

>five children as a single mother

no lie. if it's not in the delta, it's in the dem-voted cities who regularly figure out how to funnel budget money into their pockets. and get re-elected. forever.

shaniqua has six kids from six different guys who either dip out or get killed in the drug game™. she and her kids also live at momma's house which has been paid for since 1975. also, grandma lives there. she'll get a sack of money for "taking care of" grandma as well as around 600/kid for EBT.

it's a racket and they know it. they will keep pulling in the gibs-me-dat until it's revoked, which could be never.

I've throttled and beat more niggers than you can count on both hands and I still got it in me. Despite what you think, it will be you struggling to keep up with my broke down body.

you've never pulled triggers on anyone. I MAY have.

>Portugal
>White
Nice try Alberto Barbosa

I talk to these idiots every day on the phone. Somehow they all have internet and smartphones and want to bitch bout "dey innanet not working." Fuck Mississippi.

fuck niggers in general.

they will never improve your quality of life. not one bit in the history of forever.

that is reality. They will cheer when OJ gets out, when your kid gets shot, and they take your money.

they are ALL like this.

It has to give out at some point. Its a mathematical certainty.

Also yes now IK you mean white liberals. So let me tell you yes molly Fitzgerald PhD in sociology inhabits the upper east side and has an IQ of 120 while it's sad she is wasting away childless it's just good that the white demographic gets more conservative everyday.

>4 kids on minimum wage
>only 30 hours
>no father

Yeah, I wonder why the stupid nigger is struggling.

She can adopt them out. Problem solved.

she isn't struggling.

she just wants more and now she's breeding another generation to take from us.

who the fuck cares about some niggers?
btw why isn't the man of the house working to support his family
oh i forgot nigger probably ran away
youtube.com/watch?v=EenIXVoALmU

Negroes are supposed to decline faster than the white population. They are a worthless demographic and the fact that BLACKED posters think they are taking over cause people like (((nigger music))) is funny.