*When  republican Gene Alday,  a member of the Mississippi state legislature, made news because of his very public statement to the media that African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps, he was basically ‘talking out the side of his neck.’
He has since back-peddled and apologized.
“I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call ‘welfare crazy checks,'” Alday said to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, earlier this month. “They don’t work.”
According to 2013 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on a national level, most of the people who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. Â The USDA administers the program, and stats reveal 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.
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