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Mass media in the United States didn't reflect American attitudes about race, poverty, and crime. It manufactured them. From the minstrel stage to the evening news. From Birth of a Nation to nightly crime segments. From welfare queen to super predator. The country was told repeatedly, across ev...
Episode 15 drops Friday.   Linda Taylor committed welfare fraud. Ronald Reagan described her as collecting $150,000 a year under80 names. Most of those details weren't in any record. By 1980, the welfare queen was American political reality — and thirty years of federal policy was built on her.  ...
Linda Taylor was a real person. A woman in Chicago, convicted of welfare fraud in 1977. The documented amount she collected fraudulently was somewhere between eight and twenty-three thousand dollars.   Ronald Reagan described her on the campaign trail as collecting a hundred and fifty thousand do...
In 1919, Mildred LewisRutherford, Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, distributed a pamphlet to school boards across the South specifying which history textbooks were acceptable and which were not. Acceptable books had todescribe slavery as a benevolent institution. They...
In 1995 a political scientist named John DiIulio predicted a coming wave of violent juvenile crime. He called them super predators. The term went everywhere — politicians, prosecutors, the press. Hillary Clinton used it at a campaign event in 1996. The crime bill infrastructure was already in pl...
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