Dallas NAACP called for ban on ‘racist’ state lottery
MissUnderstanding | Jun 30, 2012 | Comments 1
The Dallas, Texas, branch of the NAACP has called for a ban on the state lottery, claiming that it is a drain on the finances of low-income people, and especially minorities, who can least afford games of chance.
Chapter President Juanita Wallace said many people have spent all their hard-earned money in hopes of striking it rich, but instead, the lottery has left their finances in shambles.
‘It’s an addiction,‘ she told CNN.
Moneyball: Texans have spent a whopping $3.3billion on lottery tickets so far in 2012
Wallace said one man she knew died last week without health insurance because he withdrew all of the funds from his policy to buy lottery tickets.
One of NAACP’s major concerns is that the lottery specifically targets African-Americans, as well as people who are poor and ‘uneducated.’
Overall, Texans have spent a whopping $3.3billion on lottery tickets so far this year, according to CBS DFW.
A spokeswoman with the Texas Lottery Commission rejected allegations of racism, saying the Texas lottery does not market any differently from one demographic to another.
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I live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our lottery is play against a computer.
I wish someone would explain how you can play a fair game against a computer? How is one to really win a good jackpot trying to play against a computer. Is it like trying to win at chess on my macbook?
No one will investigate it here locally because of the huge money the lottery spends on advertisements….Lottery administrations are tremendous and very profitable, awesome sums of money are being played and mostly by poor people, black poor people.
ABC, NBC, PBS: someone needs to take and in-depth look into the extremes that states will go to keep the odds in their favor as they do here in Indiana
Phillip Sebree