Terrance Dean: Cutting Welfare Benefits of Tennessee's Underperforming Children Is an Injustice: If I do not speak for a majority of Tennesseans I will be remiss to express how saddened, outraged, and disappointed I am with the legislatures who deem it necessary to enact a bill to cut the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, welfare benefits, of parents whose children are under-performers in Tennessee schools. This cannot be the reality of the 21st century of which lingers in the not so distant past the horrors of the Jim Crow South.
How appalling that white male constituents who make up the majority of the legislative body will enact a bill that sharply affects the majority of Tennesseans on welfare, who just so happen to be minorities and people of color. But, what's even more appalling is that many of those who will be impacted by this bill are minority children of color -- helpless, defenseless, and voiceless children who are the bi-products of Tennessee schools. Unfortunately, they are the real victims here.
