You left out poor white people in your discussion. While white people do have a lower rate of poverty than blacks or latinos, they actually make up a very large majority (68.5% as of 2009) of the people living under the poverty line in the United States. [1]
"... let's not pretend that the Cherokee are the ones we're worried about here."
"Successfully repeating this experiment in poor black and latino populations a few times would go a long ways towards convincing the skeptical... "
I'm all in favor of repeating the experiment in whatever populations, ideally the general one on a large enough sample size to tease out demographic information. I don't want to seem like I'm implying something here, so I will instead say overtly that I find the way you've singled out certain populations for skepticism with regards to whether they should be helped disturbing.
"... let's not pretend that the Cherokee are the ones we're worried about here."
"Successfully repeating this experiment in poor black and latino populations a few times would go a long ways towards convincing the skeptical... "
I'm all in favor of repeating the experiment in whatever populations, ideally the general one on a large enough sample size to tease out demographic information. I don't want to seem like I'm implying something here, so I will instead say overtly that I find the way you've singled out certain populations for skepticism with regards to whether they should be helped disturbing.
[1] http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditu...