Posted on 03/26/2010 6:53:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s hopelessness that helps explain it. I once talked to a black South African during apartheid. He told me paraphrased, “Yes, I know communism is a form of oppression and that the ANC is communist. I would rather be oppressed by someone that is my race than by the whites.”
Yep, it’s a sad fact that for many years, black unemployment has been a good bit higher than overall unemployment. In good times and bad times, why is black unemployment so high? What are the real reasons, not the politically correct reasons?
No problem. Just ask Obama for a little something from his ‘stash’.
Yup, 40 years and they still haven't finished high school. I guess you could call that a sloooow learner.
illegals deported,
and minimum wage laws repealed.
No employer is going to pay $7 for a $5 job.
But thanks to the siren song of the racial grievance industry their kids sure will.
But for Whites being jobless is a hoot!
Was there an article last year touting the benefits of being unemployed?
This is one of the great tragedies of Obama.
While it is true that these policies will bring down the rich, the Black community ain’t going anywhere.
Green (which is the complimentary color of red) jobs...
not black jobs.
Keep on doing the same thing you have been doing and you will keep on getting the same thing you have gotten. It is shear stupidity and insanity to think anything else.
“For Blacks, Jobless Rate Brings Desperation”
Desperation to sit on their azzes
OK, to be serious, for both blacks and young whites, they think the ‘work’ ends when the find a ‘job’.
Bottom line, start looking for ‘work’ not a ‘job’.
People will pay anyone to work, and there is plenty of work out there. The paycheck for showing up jobs are gone.
Speaking of STUPID, saw a bit of stupidpak crying about mean ol Pubbies on “tingle up my leg” spitmaker matthews last night.
chicagotribune.com
Research reveals devastating consequences of layoffs, recession
Greg Burns
March 25, 2010
For millions of Americans laid off in the devastating recession, the job search just isn’t clicking.
And here’s the really bad news: Almost no one will be able to recover the financial ground they’ve lost.
That’s the inescapable conclusion from years of academic research into the last big recession, in the early 1980s, and job shocks thereafter.
The findings have trickled out in scholarly papers, gloomy facts buried in technocratic detail.......
www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/ct-biz-0325-burns—20100325,0,2813355.column
A few years ago, a black television actor allegedly made a comment to a gay actor on set (Gray's Anatomy IIRC). The black actor was made to apologize publicly and then he was still fired. A comment I read on FR was that gay people were now more politically protected than black people.
Now we see that liberal thinkers are also more politically protected than black people. If amnesty is passed, Latinos will be more politically protected than black people.
If the black community does not catch on to this soon, they will vote themselves into political irrelevance.
Sorry, but your comparison to hispanics is off base. It is the common claim of the open borders/amnesty caucus that hispanics are great hardworking people with wonderful family values.
There is nothing to back up that claim.
Hispanics in America are duplicating the steps to decline that blacks did. 50% of hispanic children in the US, mostly to illegals, are born outside the family structure. It is getting worse. The gang culture has been pretty much taken over by hispanic youth nationwide. The prison population in areas of illegal alien concentration is disproportionately made up of hispanic criminals. The welfare rolls are increasingly populated by hispanics.
Now before someone accuses me of being a racist in putting forth these facts, I point them out not as a slander on hispanics, many of whom are solid law-abiding Americans, but as a warning that if hispanics follow like lemmings the siren call of the democrat party that blacks have done, they too will be a permanent underclass with total fealty to the democrat party that put them there and keeps them there with “the soft bigotry of low expectations” and the “stash” of cash that keeps them in servitude to the democrat welfare state.
We are importing poverty to the tune of 1.2 million legal immigrants a year. The vast majority of them are poor and uneducated and 87% are minorities as defined by the USG. We don't need any more unskilled and uneducated workers.
The latest data show 22.1 million immigrants holding jobs in the U.S. with an estimated 7 million being illegal aliens. By increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000, immigration reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700 or roughly 4 percent. Among natives without a high school education, who roughly correspond to the poorest tenth of the workforce, the estimated impact was even larger, reducing their wages by 7.4 percent. The reduction in earnings occurs regardless of whether the immigrants are legal or illegal, permanent or temporary. It is the presence of additional workers that reduces wages, not their legal status.
Hispanics have a 50% out of wedlock birthrate and more than 50% are high school dropouts. The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, compared to 19 percent for native households. The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children. Massive low-skill immigration works to counteract government anti-poverty efforts. While government works to reduce the number of poor persons, low-skill immigration pushes the poverty numbers up. In addition, low-skill immigration siphons off government anti-poverty funding and makes government efforts to shrink poverty less effective. Milton Friedman said, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.”
We are creating another permanent underclass.
These employers could find a way to give the poor people a job at a loss and still make money just not as MUCH money as they want there racist.
Illegals just doing the jobs blacks don’t want to do.
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