An Arkansas campaign ad has managed to outrage right-wing pundits with a single casting choice: a White man as a welfare queen. <\/p>\n
In a commercial touting the state\u2019s welfare-to-work requirements, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) recently rolled out<\/a> \u201cBrad\u201d \u2014 an out-of-work gamer eating junk food and living off the government\u2019s dime \u2014 as the policy\u2019s poster child. MAGA commentators revolted, accusing the governor of demonizing White men<\/a>. On social media, defeated Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback chastised Sanders<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019d recommend you start with the baby-momma with a BMW who just got back from her Carnival Cruise.\u201d Far-right influencer and podcaster Matt Walsh wrote that the real villain<\/a> is \u201cShaniqua,\u201d whom he called \u201can accurate portrayal of the problem at hand.\u201d The subtext is plain: The default face of welfare can only be a Black woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Arkansas campaign ad has managed to outrage right-wing pundits with a single casting choice: a White man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-367417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}