Just what a society — already at fever-pitch partisanship and divisiveness — didn’t need.
This story.
Prominent, front-page coverage of an unmarried, unemployed black woman with 15 children by multiple fathers who doesn’t just need public assistance. But demands it. And doesn’t just demand it, but does so with an empathy-challenging attitude of arrogance toward a system that can’t subsidize everything.
As it turns out, no, this is not an ACORNesque put-on to ridicule the welfare state and juxtapose societal values. No, Angel Adams, 37, is the real, woeful, you-owe-me deal. An avatar of entitlement.
And a one-woman perfect storm for these turbulent times.
Not only does she help perpetuate a “post-racial” stereotype. But in this toxic political climate, she is also red meat for the “you betcha” crowd making a bogus case against “socialism” and a reasonable one in behalf of responsible behavior, self-determination, bootstraps — and probably tubal ligation.
No, we didn’t need this — any more than any of those Adams’ family kids did.