Welfare should and can help Black people.
Holtz 96 — Geoffrey T. Holtz, a partner in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen, author of the book "Welcome to the Jungle: the Why Behind Generation X," J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of Law, 1996 (“Social Security Discrimination against AfricanAmericans: An Equal Protection Argument,” Hastings Law Journal, ND, Available Online at https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3259&context=hastings_law_journal, Accessed on 07-23-23)
None of these proposals is without its critics, and any fundamental changes to such an enormous program as Social Security would require a great deal of study to assess the pros and cons. However, given the stark racial discrepancies inherent in the current Social Security program, there is a great need for Congress to enact some type of reform. In considering any amendments to the Act, Congress must take into account its inequitable treatment of African-Americans. It can ameliorate these effects by either an explicit race-based response, or by a race-neutral response that eliminates the racial discrepancies, but it must at least consider the effect of any such changes on African Americans with their shorter life expectancies. To fail to do so will simply perpetuate the unconstitutionally discriminatory impact that the program has produced for the last sixty years.