"...They disabled with a helping hand. There's something called 'toxic help'. That's what the poverty program was: toxic help." — Bob Woodson, founder of the Woodson Center & #civilrights veteran [A Pathway To American Renewal Symposium]

Toxic help. wow. Make sense. In Eastern Kentucky, my whole extended family qualified for literal government cheese. I actually remember it coming in a nice little wooden box. My mom and dad refused to take it. My parents and their kids were among the few that got out of that trap. So many took the Toxic Help.

@WoodsonCenter I love this guy. He knows SO much & he shares his knowledge.

@WoodsonCenter Good man.

@WoodsonCenter Poverty programs are what lifted many poor and working-class Black people out of Black, rundown neighborhoods and put them in integrated areas and gated Black middle and upper-middle-class communities. Poverty programs are not toxic. They left. The programs worked.

@WoodsonCenter 🙏🏻❤️💪🇺🇸 American hero for speaking the truth.

@WoodsonCenter This applies to all races and the US Black community is one example in the of history of the rise and fall civilizations around the world.

@WoodsonCenter This man is flat out a national treasure. Always dropping knowledge and making me smarter for having listened to him. I love when he calls out race hucksters and those who strive to divide America along racial lines. Love, not hate. Long live Bob Woodson the Great!

@WoodsonCenter Amen. Helping people too much cripples them, gives them the message that they cannot help themselves.