A 21-year-old unmarried welfare mom from the ghetto, pregnant with a second child, goes to Barneys (a very high-end clothing retailer in Manhattan) and buys a $2,500 handbag with a temporary ATM card that doesn’t have a name on it. Hilarity ensues.
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Lion of the Blogosphere 
“Armed with a cash infusion from a tax return”
That might be the Earned Income Tax Credit (what you get if you file a tax return and have kids but have little income). The maximum EIC with one qualifying child is $3,169 (wikipedia).
Looks like it didn’t sit in her bank account very long.
Dan
October 24, 2013 at 1:54 PM
Individuals getting public assistance must show a lack of net worth, especially cash, to get benefits. The poor are not stupid and will give parents money to hold or work under the table to keep their net worth low. This could be a one time life splurge to meet welfare eligibility or planned extortion, stupidity excluded.
cesqy
October 24, 2013 at 5:10 PM
EIC? Well, then, it looks like she was trying to but it with stolen money after all.
destructure
October 24, 2013 at 5:45 PM
If this transaction occurred on Feb 28, 2013, why are we only hearing about this now in October? This is the part I find confusing.
ASF
October 24, 2013 at 2:05 PM
Money quote:
“Jay Z — in Oslo, Norway, on his Magna Carta tour — worked with major designers like Balenciaga to produce an exclusive limited edition line of clothes and jewelry for Barneys that will go on sale Nov. 20. The deluxe goods range from a Barneys cotton T-shirt for $70 to a Shawn Carter by Hublot watch with black alligator straps that will retail for an eye-popping $33,900.
A portion of Jay Z’s profits will go to a foundation he runs to give financial aid to students facing economic hardships — people like Phillips and Christian”
The circle of life (queue the Lion King music)
Dan
October 24, 2013 at 2:36 PM
OT- Catherine Rampell thinks that being a programmer makes for a good career- obviously she’s not reading your blog yet…..
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/magazine/i-am-woman-watch-me-hack.html
SJ
October 24, 2013 at 2:46 PM
obviously she’s not reading your blog yet…..
Quite the opposite. In fact.
‘Tis proof she is reading LOTB. The hypergamous mink’s entry is a blatant attempt to provoke the Lion into a retaliatory counter-post, the blog equivalent of a 50 Shades of Grey domination session where Lion triumphs over a helpless Rampell.
The Undiscovered Jew
October 24, 2013 at 8:24 PM
Poorly written erotica is prole.
islandmommy
October 25, 2013 at 6:17 PM
Poorly written erotica is prole.
That’s why Rampell will have to clue Lion in about 50 shades‘ plot. He would never lower himself to do anything remotely prole.
The Undiscovered Jew
October 26, 2013 at 6:44 PM
There’s been a slight uptick of smart women in IT and Engineering. Of course, women will greatly benefit from this, as beta males who run these industries will keep them and not outsource their positions for more beta/omega losers. Most men nowadays realize that their companies with women gives them an image boost and credibility, especially one that is predominantly of omega male territory.
Other than that, most young American White women are living in borrowed times, which spells doom for this country. Most value transference jobs are similar to Academia, not enough cushy high paying positions to go around. A hiring person whom I know in a Fortune 500 company, have been getting a spam of 5K resumes a day for a female executive assistant position advertised online not too long ago.
JS
October 25, 2013 at 12:51 PM
A hiring person whom I know in a Fortune 500 company, have been getting a spam of 5K resumes a day for a female executive assistant position advertised online not too long ago.
It can’t be an ad for a “female” executive assistant, because except in unusual cases (e.g. locker room attendant) you can’t specify gender in a job ad.
Anyway, while this is anecdotal, I have heard that an increasing number of companies are electing not to post job advertisements on the main online sites such as Career Builder or Monster as they get inundated with resumes if they do so.
Peter
Peter
October 25, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Other than that, most young American White women are living in borrowed times, which spells doom for this country.
Racial diversity means young, middle and upper middle class white girls will overwhelmingly have shitty, if any, jobs. There’s recently been a decline in female employment. I wonder if the decline has also impacted young white women.
The traditional career fields for white girls are scarcer and less attractive than ever. Marketing jobs have mediocre salaries unless you have great connections. Ordinary marketing positions are increasingly staffed with black and Hispanic affirmative action appointments because megacorps can’t place them in vital silos like operations, finance, or IT. Ditto HR and government jobs.
Asian lower beta and omega males cheat like crazy to block white girls from getting into medical training programs in still lucrative medical fields. And for those increasingly few white girls lucky to get admitted into a good medical program, Asians will drive down their wages when they do start to practice medicine.
Education sucks because the rising wave of unassimilable non-white children means white girl teachers have to be stuck in classes with ugly, low-IQ nonwhites who would love to gang rape a white woman.
If you are a white woman with young white girls you’d better start doing a Margret Sanger and vocally oppose non-white immigration unless you want your perfect princesses to work in computer code sweatshops with Indian omega males.
The Undiscovered Jew
October 25, 2013 at 8:08 PM
If you are a white woman with young white girls you’d better start doing a Margret Sanger and vocally oppose non-white immigration unless you want your perfect princesses to work in computer code sweatshops with Indian omega males.
Here in NYC, I have met White girls who’ve become network administrators and help desk IT technicians. They usually come from working class families, not the bobo-SWPL types who never get into that kind of hands on work. I have also seen Indian females in this field of work and I believe many companies would opt for more females and less males, because males in these fields are generally unattractive and are losers for the most part.
JS
October 26, 2013 at 12:57 PM
I wonder if the slight uptick will last long. Women are generally lousy employees. Though some can be good when in good health and not bogged down by family activities/problems, they are otherwise far inferior to men as employees except in one category, stability. Just as they don’t come up with creative solutions to problems often they also don’t come up with lunatic crazy ventures like men sometimes do. They are more socially oriented and thus will go along with the herd more often. This is often something corporations like. For instance, the kind of HBD people who read this blog would be valued for their inventiveness (a result of their independence from herd mentality) but would be disfavored for their less than congenial behavior. Women value congeniality even when it leads nowhere, at least nowhere productive. This may be why so many seek out government employment where nothing important ever gets done.
Curle
October 26, 2013 at 7:05 PM
Is it some sort of litigation racket?
“A portion of Jay Z’s profits will go to a foundation he runs to give financial aid to students facing economic hardships — people like Phillips and Christian, who are both working their way through college.”
She can afford a designer bag for 2500 dollars? I guess economic hardship means different things to different people.
Staffan
October 24, 2013 at 3:57 PM
is it true that in nearly all white countries the pussies swell and drool for black guys?
jorge videla
October 24, 2013 at 6:10 PM
Yes, it is true. Anything else you would like to know about living in a “white country?”
ice hole
October 25, 2013 at 9:07 AM
you’re not being serious ice hole. and i’m not a black guy. i have the impression that in places where blacks are rare and there’s been no conditioning to avoid them, women are much more likely to be interested. a veteran of ww i mentioned that the black gis got the most attention from the french women. he might have been making it up.
jorge videla
October 25, 2013 at 7:42 PM
Funny given that in WW2 black GIs mostly committed rapes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332670/American-WWII-GIs-dangerous-sex-crazed-rapists-French-feared-Germans-explosive-book-claims.html
eradican
October 26, 2013 at 1:11 AM
Kanazawa says it is the testosterone.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/satoshi-kanazawa-black-women-less-attractive_n_863327.html
Curle
October 26, 2013 at 7:11 PM
In reality, that’s only something that black guys tell themselves to feel better about themselves. Most white women want absolutely nothing to do with black men. Most white women prefer white men , just as most women of other races prefer men from the same backround as themselves. Some white women do go for black guys, but have to ever looked at them? To a woman, they are almost always obese and horrible to look at. I know from experience as I lived in a prole neighborhood with rapidly changing demographics. I saw interracial dating, but all the great looking, good looking , and average white women stayed with white men. The ones who went black had no other choice. Case in point, one high school acquaintance of mine who got pregnant by a black guy-she was horrendous, She had only been on one date in her life- a pity trip to the senior prom with a white male friend. White guys would be friendly, but did not see her in any way as a mate, while black guys were hitting on her daily and telling her how hot she was. If she wanted to ever get laid, she had no other choice. I can honestly only recall once seeing a black guy with a halfway decent looking white girl, the rest of the time they were with somebody resembling a younger version of Honey Boo Boo’s mom. My advice to all the men living in Whitopias- interracial dating is not the worst thing in the world. Only the least wanted white women get taken by men of other races, while white men often get the best nonwhite women. For example, if you asked me who are the hottest black, Asian, and Latin women, I would reply Zoe Saldana, Zhang Ziyi, and Adriana Lima. Guess what- all three are with “whiteboys”! We win again! Seriously, is it the worst thing in the world if the absolute ugliest, poorest, and stupidest white women get taken off our hands? It will only make the average white even smarter and better looking. Just my opinion.
Nick from South Jersey
October 30, 2013 at 1:27 AM
What’s Rachel Jeantel doing at Barneys? The earlier profiling incident with the guy buying a $500 belt was also pretty amusing. An expensive series of blunders, in these days of the litigious profiled.
Sanjuro
October 24, 2013 at 4:24 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates has lamented on his blog the “shameful” wealth gap between blacks and whites. One reason is, of course, that blacks earn less on average. But another reason is this sort of conspicuous consumption promoted by the likes of Jay-Z. His message probably does a lot more harm than any good his foundation does.
Dave Pinsen
October 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM
Research finds that a substantial wealth gap persists even when income levels, occupational status and educational attainment are matched.
(Oliver and Shapiro, 1995; Hurst, Luoh and Stafford, 1998; Wolff, 2001; and Kunjufu, 2002)
destructure
October 24, 2013 at 5:51 PM
i would not be surprised if accumulated wealth were much better correlated with iq than income.
jorge videla
October 25, 2013 at 7:45 PM
This cannot be stressed enough. Frugality (not cheapness, there is a difference) is a virtue. Spending your tax-return on a luxury item isn’t frugality, and if you get the EITC, it’s stupidity.
Half Canadian
October 24, 2013 at 8:06 PM
If they are on welfare and spending $2500 on a purse instead of their bastard and bastard-to-be we know why they have a wealth gap.
As this article shows, to do a fair comparison what we need to do is calculate “wealth” differently for Negros and whites. For Negros you have to add in all the bling: the $750 basketball shoes, the $375 Jay-Z tee shirt, the $1500 fake fur coat, the $2575 set of rims, the $4500 grillz, etc.
Once you add up the value of all the flashy trinkets that fascinate Negros they may well be as “wealthy” as white folks.
Jimbo
October 24, 2013 at 11:18 PM
it’s so absurd. anyone who would pay $2,500 for a handbag is trash to begin with.
jorge videla
October 24, 2013 at 6:07 PM
Well and the extra absurdity, is anyone who sees her carrying it will likely assume it to be a fake anyway.
massivefocusedinaction
October 25, 2013 at 10:51 AM
I actually don’t understand why the police would have any grounds to stop the people after they’d paid and left the store. In each case the cashier would have gotten an approval after running the card.
Peter
Peter
October 24, 2013 at 6:23 PM
Were you recently unfrozen from the 1980 or something? This is the future, old man.
Toad
October 24, 2013 at 11:14 PM
You have an excellent vocabulary for someone who was born yesterday.
Ziel
October 25, 2013 at 12:39 AM
Have you never heard of credit card fraud, identity theft, or bank fraud. Anyone who has worked in higher end retail has stories of people coming in with stolen credit cards. Clerks will say it is easy to spot because the people do not shop the same way as anyone else does. An obviously poor person purchasing a high end item with a temporary ATM card fits the profile of someone committing fraud.
The police thought they were catching someone committing fraud but ended up just catching a stupid resident of the ghetto.
superdestroyer
October 25, 2013 at 5:13 AM
Correct. They let the transaction go thru because then the actus reus is complete and they have probable cause.
This is an obvious setup to put the retailer on the horns of a dilemma. If they decline this transaction that stinks to high heaven, then ghetto-queen-latifa screams Title VII. Alert the cops to what has every appearance of fraud, and she screams false arrest.
The Anti-Gnostic
October 25, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Note that she filed a $5 million dollar lawsuit.
If she made $50,000 a year from age 20 to 65, that would be $2.25 million. So she wants more than twice an optimistic face value of her lifetime earnings for this one incident.
Oh where are the utilitarians to show us that the calculations demand that we pull the plug on her?
rightsaidfred
October 24, 2013 at 7:07 PM
$2.25 million? That’s lots of handbags, dawg!
Olde English
October 25, 2013 at 7:11 PM
This is a short example which shows everything that is wrong with America today.
* Unmarried, single mom
* Not one, but two children at 21
* Receiving welfare from the government in the form of “tax refund” …. surely among other things
* Who is trying to buy a $2,500 purse instead of saving, or education, etc …
and the scandal is … wait for it …
… that someone dared to think her purchase may not have been legitimate!
lion of the lionosphere
October 24, 2013 at 7:32 PM
IN an interview that was shown on CNN, the woman talked how she had earned that pursue. Once gain , poor blacks display the inability to understand how the world works.
superdestroyer
October 27, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Hilarity ensues.
So the Lion does have a sense of humor.
He may be human after all…
The Undiscovered Jew
October 24, 2013 at 7:35 PM
Cue ‘racism’ litigation, civil investigation, affirmative action hire rape train in 3….2….1….
L
October 24, 2013 at 9:53 PM
On a different topic, as a result of lawsuits over its unpaid internship policy, Conde Nast has decided to get rid of all internships.
Peter
Peter
October 24, 2013 at 9:58 PM
“Conde Nast has decided to get rid of all internships.”
Excellent, because internships are basically theft.
peterike
October 24, 2013 at 11:18 PM
Ugh, those racist southerners and their KKK infiltrated police keeping the negroes in their place.
Toad
October 24, 2013 at 11:19 PM
Maybe celine will hire Ms. Phillips to walk the runway for them fashion week 2014.
islandmommy
October 25, 2013 at 9:55 AM
Typical of blacks. They have low future time orientation and can’t seem to save any money for things that matter in life. Poor investment decisions and they have no future plans.
JS
October 25, 2013 at 12:32 PM
“Who is trying to buy a $2,500 purse instead of saving, or education, etc …”
Lion, I agree that it is insane for anyone but a truly wealthy person to spend $2,500 on a handbag. But apart from buying workbooks or textbooks to study on one’s own, there isn’t much education (or to be exact, educational credentialing) that a person can buy for $2,500. Training programs of several months usually start at something like 6K and up – at least in NYC. And this may be a low estimate.
MaryK
October 25, 2013 at 2:19 PM
There are plenty of government training programs in NYC for black welfare recipients that are free of charge, which gives them 1st priority in affirmative action based work once they complete them. Many of them are a waste of tax dollars because most blacks who are enroll in these programs drop out as they lack future time orientation to commit to something that requires long term learning.
JS
October 25, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Yes, JS. It’s true that you need future time orientation to get anywhere – even if you’re provided with free job training and free public libraries. In the absence of that time orientation people have little self-discipline. I suppose the best thing to do would be for her to spend the $2,500 on someone who would threaten to beat her ass if she didn’t either study for the future or do job training! But again, with no future time orientation why would she spend her money on a disciplinarian? She’d first have to be ashamed at her situation. It’s not likely that she is.
MaryK
October 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM
Can I ask the obvious question of why any of you would care about this woman? or yep incessantly about other dismal creatures? it appears to me to be an obvious emotional release for you commenters to crap all over this woman, to look down and feel superior but really this emotional investment shows you must relate some how, losers yep incessantly about other losers, birds of a feather flock together and all that.
Phineas
October 26, 2013 at 3:41 AM
She bought the purse with money taken out of the tax coffers. She represents shitty government policy. People are yepping incessantly about her because of what she represents.
Scharlach
October 26, 2013 at 11:41 AM