Don't Use Your Temporary Crutches Forever.

This week’s reading was a chapter called “Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats” inside of The Destruction of Black America.  My main focus while reading was the section about welfare brats.  My mother is a single parent with three children and she has never turned to the government for help.  She has too much pride to ask for help from anyone.  So when I read about how “welfare recipients are people who feel life is not worth living without a handout from the Great Society” (Parker 128) it is hard to believe that people would actually want to live their whole life on welfare or being “welfare brats” and not show society that they can be independent, hard workers for their earnings is very depressing.  I know that my mother didn’t want to get on welfare after she separated from my father is because society looks at the mother and child as victims when they are “receiving government assistance” (128).   From reading and understanding Black and on Welfare: What You Don’t Know About Single-Parent Women, I think Sandra Golden is a perfect example to show other black single-parent women how to use support and help from others to build into someone who doesn’t need help anymore.  When someone breaks their leg they use crutches for the support and help to walk and get around but after a while when they heal they don’t need those crutches anymore and can walk on their own.  Welfare should be the crutches for those on welfare going through many struggles but once they get their life together they should walk away from the government’s assistance with a proud, high head.