Star Parker: Welfare dependency destroys black families

Stuart Varney: It is entitlement week on Fox Business network. Star Parker, admitted former welfare cheat and president of CURE, is live with us now. Star, welcome to the program.

Star Parker: Well, thank you, it's good to be back with you.

Varney: Indeed it is. We've been running clips earlier in the program of your interview with John Stossel where you're saying how easy it was to get a couple of checks a month to pay for your food and all the rest of it. Here's my question, though. When you were on welfare, when you were cheating and doing it, did you feel you were cheating or did you feel, 'hey look, it's out there, I'm entitled to it.' Give it to me. How did you feel when you were doing it?

Star: I didn't have any feelings. I was also on drugs. It didn't matter because I had bought the lie that poor people are poor because rich people are rich so I didn't have any problem with going on welfare to pay for my life. But now remember, you didn't have to use your check to pay for food because you also get food stamps.

Varney: So when you were on welfare, you got cash welfare, you certainly got food stamps, your rent was paid for, medical treatment was paid for...was everything paid for by the government?

Star: Yes, everything was paid for by the government, but keep in mind that Uncle Sam is cruel to the poor. These programs don't work for them. We have over 4,000 housing projects in this country. It's not working for the people -- you just get addicted to it like any other drug and you start depending on that life and it spirals you into a little dark hole.

Varney: So, I've been making a point this week that the recipients of this extensive entitlement program, that the recipients are actually destroyed by it. Now that's a very strong thing of me to say. Would you agree with it?

Star: I absolutely agree. The recipient is not only destroyed, but their personal dignity, and then they become much more addicted for all of their lives, but whole communities are destroyed. Let's look at what happened, for instance in the black community -- the impact of this entitlement mentality and welfare -- government dependency.

After the war on poverty in the 60s, we began to see the unraveling of the entire black community because the family collapsed. During the 60s, the black family was pretty healthy. Seventy-eight percent of husbands were in their homes with their wives raising their children. But after this lure to government that said "you don't have to work, you don't have to save, you don't have to get married," over time marriage stopped occurring to where now 7 out of 10 black children are born outside of marriage and what happens when you don't have that intact family is your values change. So your culture changes. So your community changes.

Varney: You're out there now very publicly saying the entitlement mentality is a very bad thing, it destroys communities. What's the reaction to you now saying what you're saying?

Star: Well, depends on who I'm saying it to. Some give me death threats and others say 'tell us more.' How did you get out? And that's one of the reasons I wrote my book "Uncle Sam's Plantation" because I want people to understand that they don't have to live at the hand of the government.

You know, I'm spending my life, as you said, I'm running an organization here in Washington, DC, spending my life, I suppose, to pay back society to get everybody off of welfare. I just feel there are some contributions that everybody can make without Uncle Sam telling them 'don't worry about your life, just live off our hand from womb to tomb.'

Varney: I just want to know, real briefly, get a lot of hostility?

Star: Do I get hostility? Well, of course I do. Hey, being a black conservative in this society is social suicide: you live alone, you have a lonely life.

Varney: Well, welcome to the program, it's very good to have you. It's Star Parker.

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Star Parker appears on Varney and Company explaining how the entitlement mentality has destroyed the black family.

"Welfare is a lure that tells families that they don't have to work, save or get married."

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[Donna Manucci]

you dont get addicted to welfare only lazy people do, its only tohelp for a little while if you need it. Its just like section 8 housing, the people who need it cant get the housing because people they are cheats are in it. Just crazy and bad

[spikefivefivefive]

Did you make it past sixth grade?

Have you ever heard of something called percentages?

Please stop flaunting your stupidity already.

[edavismookie25]

Oopps.. I meant behind whites in employment because of sheer population difference.

[edavismookie25]

So, whites being the most employed (when have they not been in this country??) are ABLE to pay into social security through payroll taxes. So therefore they are that group that works more (when haven't they??) and pay more into taxes (when haven't they) and why wouldn't they? Can you think of a reasonable scenario in which blacks (44 million of US pop) or hispanics (52 million of US pop) total black/hispanic 96 million vs 219 million whites would pay more/work more?? Even if 96 million worked?

[edavismookie25]

Of course I acknowledge that some groups work more and pay more than others. If every African American and every Hispanic American and every white American worked blacks and hispanics would be behind blacks in employment because of sheer population difference. It makes sense then that since white Americans are the vast majority that white Americans would be the most employed right? That would look kinda silly if blacks had more jobs than whites right? I mean something would definitely be wrong

[spikefivefivefive]

"Well if you include social security (which is considered a social program) whites actually are vastly overrepresented.) "

That's because they overwhelmingly pay into social security through payroll taxes.

Are you acknowledging that some groups work more than others?

Are you acknowledging that some groups pay more taxes than others?

[edavismookie25]

Well if you include social security (which is considered a social program) whites actually are vastly overrepresented.) I know that conservatives like to call it 'retirement plan' to avoid the negative 'social' that is attached to it. But thats just semantics. Btw I am white.

[edavismookie25]

Sounds like Ward Connelly and Clarence Thomas. Where they get where they want to go they develop amnesia. They benefit from affirmative action then come out against it. Sounds like hypocrisy to me. But thats just me.

[Saphire Blue]

This woman was saved from poverty by democrats. Now that she has been lifted up she does not want others to get the same help she has.

[Robert Molendyk]

(For the record I'm not racist) - 29 mill. people are on welfare - 39% white: 11,661,000 - 38% black: 11,362,000 - US population: 313,544,041 - White: 72.4%: 227,005,885 - Black: 12.6%: 39,506,549 Math time!: Whites: 11.661,000 / 227,005,885 * 100 = 5.13% Blacks: 11,362,000 / 39,506,549 * 100 = 28.75% total % of all white people in America on welfare is: 5.13% total % of all black people in America on welfare is: 28.75%