Apparently white people have the advantage when it comes to the benefit of social security, according to a university dean.
Dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Thomas LaVeist, said that white people benefit more from social security because of “structural inequity”, during Washington Post’s live “Health Equity” event on Thursday.
Lavist suggested that “structural inequities” within the healthcare system cause white people to have longer lifespans and therefore benefit more from social security than black people.
"Because the White person on average is going to live longer than the Black person, there’s going to be a difference in how much they’re going to get out of that system that they paid into," LaVeist told the Washington Post.
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However, the dean said that he didn’t believe that the system was an inherently racist program but did argue that the system does not produce equal outcomes.
"I’m not saying that Social Security is inherently racist, but I’m saying that it has an inequitable outcome because of these health inequities, and this is just a good way to demonstrate how that operates," he said.
This would not have been the first time that The Washington Post would have argued that social security is racist. In 2013 the newspaper published an article titled “A Second look at Social Security's Racist Origins' 'claiming that social security is designed to exclude minorities from benefits.
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