[Synthetase]

African Americans constitute 15% of America.

White Americans constitute 74% of America.

Thus African Americans are more than twice as likely to live under the poverty line. Those are not I odds I would like to gamble with had I been born black.

You won a lottery when you were born.

[Natsu]

Merely being born American made us winners in that lottery, if you get down to it.

Is anyone really against the idea that all 49 million need help?

[flyinRyan]

You mean being born a first world country. But there are other first world countries that have better average quality of life than the US.

[Natsu]

There will always be some people who have it better than others. I would prefer that we make sure that those who have it the worst comparatively don't have it that bad on an absolute scale.