Melissa Harris-Perry Blows Up On Guest- 'What is Riskier than being Poor In America'

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Melissa Harris-Perry had what was probably her most passionate and intense television outburst ever when she delivered a fiery monologue about being poor in America on her Saturday show.

The moment occurred during a long segment on what Harris-Perry felt was the demonization of welfare recipients as "undeserving" of aid. She clashed repeatedly with guest Monica Mehta, labeled by the show as a business and finance expert.

Harris-Perry's frustration with Mehta rose perceptibly when Mehta said that welfare payments should not be "limitless."

"Limitless?!" Harris-Perry shot back. "The limits currently ... established under a Democratic president are appalling."

A few minutes later, Harris-Perry, referring to the debate about welfare recipients "deserving" aid, said, "I just feel like, from the bottom, you have to be able to say, 'I deserve the ability for class mobility.'"

"Which is funded by public education, by low-cost health care," guest Nancy Giles said. "Which is enabled by taking risks," Mehta cut in.

Slamming her hands down on her desk, Harris-Perry exploded:

"What is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously, what in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it'll be a good school and maybe it won't. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky. No! There is a huge safety net that whenever you fail will catch you and catch you and catch you. Being poor is what is risky. We have to create a safety net for poor people. And when we won't, because they happen to look different from us, it is the pervasive ugliness! We cannot do that!"

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[SaintNick1911]

67% of this country is white, 13% is black. The whites take roughly 37% of welfare, and blacks take 33% of welfare. The majority of the country is white, so no shit they'll take more welfare. What's interesting, is how close the blacks are in welfare compared to the whites. And the country is 67% whites, and 17% blacks.

17% country: black, percentage of welfare: 33%

67% country: white, percentage of welfare: 37%

Simple math an logic gets you far.

Shut up, Yitzhak.

[TracyDomenica]

Melissa Harris-Perry is an expert on victimhood.

She's part of the problem.

[nice2meetu100]

No matter how loud she yells, she won't get any viewers.

[Thor Bonham]

Man I hate niggers ... Call me a racist ? Ok fine, but then you also have to call the douche bag nigger host a racist too ...

[Jasper Williams]

Is it misinformation to point out, WELFARE has paid out TRILLIONS to perverts - who - for no other reason than laziness, have been granted open access to working people's cash?

How is it wrong to be against paying people like Adult Babies, Diaper Lovers? These SOB's are 1 group of thousands, who have been granted open access to people's retirement and disability accounts. This in turn, forces republicans to attempt saving it by forcing people to work til' their nearly in the grave?

REPORT FACTS!

[deroatizer]

we are all part of the problem. when we all eccept this as the truth, humanity will flourish. usa is the land of hipocrates

[Aaron Esquivel]

Is this Mike Tyson's sister?

[rolling126r]

I guess if you think twisting facts and only telling half the story is intelligent...I guess. But I call it being a liar which is what she is. That's why she never has anyone on her show that disagrees with her. Seriously...she's a fraudulent intellectual that can't hold up her side of a debate...and that is a FACT! Hence you will never see someone on her show that holds the opposite opinion as her...She's just weak - or in another word - liberal

[OneStrangeWorld]

she is showing people who have never expierenced poverty, that it is not a story but alive and well in the usa and not some 3rd world country... The problem is people who speak about topics they do not really understand.

[Kevin Scott]

She makes some good points and I don't feel she should be laughed at. Preach on my sister

[jackandcoffee1145]

Liberal/progressives believe wealth is limited, so in order for someone to be wealthy and have jets and cars and vacation homes, someone else must go without.

That is a false notion.

[SaintNick1911]

That's cute. Instead of feeling threatened, I laughed at her.