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The most frequent targets of this accusation are groups receiving government funding. Another meaning for the term, sometimes used, is an individual or group that solicits private charity for the poor. USAGE EXAMPLE "Scoggins’s experiences with government intervention confirmed his political heritage. At age ten, he had helped his family campaign for Eisenhower in the 1956 election, carrying the basket from which they sold chicken sandwiches up and down Tulsa’s historic black business district. “You had every last thing you wanted there. Welfare was not even thought of,” Scoggins says. Businessmen represented the black community, not a “bunch of ministers or poverty pimps, like today,” Scoggins recalls." (Mac Donald, Heather. "Heralds of a Brighter Black Future" "During one particularly heated moment, Joe Baca called Wal-Mart executives 'poverty pimps,' arguing that they exploited the Hispanic community, then tried to make up for it by contributing to Latino organizations, according to a House Democratic aide with ties to the Hispanic Caucus ." The Hill, 2/9/06[http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020906/chc.html] EXTERNAL LINKS |
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