Actually if I read jabarto correctly he seems to be saying that for some people it is one fact amongst others, and this isn't too hard to imagine. Think of the lower-middle class white man trying to send his kids to college seeing a black child sent on a scholarship that his children don't have access to. It isn't hard to imagine how you can see this leading to racism and simultaneously to a desire to do away with these scholarship grants, and thus smaller government.
The data you quoted is in raw figures, which is not at all the correct data set to use when you have a disparity in numbers (There are far more whites than blacks, thus biasing the data). Further you can't compare "White families" with "Black single mothers" because you also have a disparity in income potential as there is only one working adult compared to two. If you look at the 2007 census data it shows that 24.5% of blacks are below the poverty line, compared to 10.5% of whites and 12.5% overall.

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