NAACP Demands End to Lotto Because It's Racist

Breitbart.com ^ | 06/27/2012 | KDAF-Dallas Unattributed

[Silentgypsy]

Juanita Wallace, the president of the NAACP Dallas Chapter: “It’s the poor people, the uneducated people who spend the most money on the Lottery and it’s not going for [them] the way they thought it was going to go,”

[Silentgypsy]

Maybe it's the heat or the sun, but I dissolved into uncontrollable giggling when I read this.

[American in Israel]

Isn’t it racist to say that the Lotto has to be stopped because blacks are too dumb to understand the odds?

[the invisib1e hand]

it’s a interesting argument.

[Berlin_Freeper]

How much education do you need?

[all the best]

If they had paid attention in school, they would have learned a little bit about odds and percentages and other useless stuff.

[cripplecreek]

“It’s the poor people, the uneducated people who spend the most money on the Lottery and it’s not going for [them] the way they thought it was going to go,”

I'm poor and I'm not dumb enough to waste my money on tickets.

[the invisib1e hand]

Isn’t it racist to say that the Lotto has to be stopped because blacks are too dumb to understand the odds?

stupidity is color blind. and the lottery is a tax on stupidity.

(but i guess that just makes it "constitutional.")

[cripplecreek]

I blame the MENSA members running the cash registers. They’re like pushers outsmarting the po folk. LOL

[QT3.14]

Isn’t it racist to say that the Lotto has to be stopped because blacks are too dumb to understand the odds?

Didn't they dumb-down the SAT score somewhat along these lines?

[liberalh8ter]

I did too. The NAACP agitators are too stupid to detect when they've insulted the people they purport to protect; including themselves. It's absolutely rich!

[I see my hands]

To: Wallace

"it’s not going for [them] the way they thought it was going to go"

What was it they thought?

[Terry Mross]

I’m not sure what’s being taught in school.

We need to come up with a word for descriminating against the poor. We another “ism” so I suggest “poorism.”

[OldNavyVet]

Might as well get it over with and declare God as a racist.

[Lazamataz]

Perhaps what they want is that everyone who enters, wins.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So Indian gambling casinos are...

[HerrBlucher]

The lottery isn’t racist but it does amount to a regressive tax. I voted against it and have never played it, and never will.

[treetopsandroofs]

Maybe the racists at the NAACP landed the casino (vs. lottery) lobby contract.

[ConorMacNessa]

Chief Justice Roberts has decided that the Lottery is valid inasmuch as it's nothing but a tax on the mathematically challenged.



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[DIRTYSECRET]

1) The Libertarian in me would suggest that the guvment’ has no business being in the lotto business. Money for schools? Yeah, right.

2) The Libertarian in me would suggest that ANYONE that wants to throw their money away should be free to do so.

[richmwill]

Couldn’t the same be said of the Nigerian money scams? That the most likely victims are the poor, uneducated people excitedly seeing it as their “big break”? What’s your response to that, NAACP?