Education Sec. to Probe Why Young Black and Hispanic Men Are ‘Less Successful’ in the Job Market

The Blaze ^ | May 12, 2014 | Pete Kasperowicz

[hinckley buzzard]

Woody Allen once famously observed, "90% of life is just showing up." Employers would heartily agree. I recently talked with an honest to god "cable guy." He said the same thing. His company can't find and keep good people because they just don't seem to think they need to show up for work on time, and then to just STFU and do the job.

[Anamensis]

How about uncovering this stunning revelation: many young black and Hispanic men don't get to school or to interviews or to jobs on time. Many do not know how to set a clock, whether it's a wind-up or an iPod. The concept of "time" is murky and inexact in their minds.

I came here to say this. In fact, I am almost afraid to, but here it is: I work in a place with 22 co-workers. We are a mixed bunch, 3 black, 9 white (2 of whom are Jewish), 1 Asian, 10 Hispanic. It's always the black and Hispanic ones who are late. Late for work, late for meetings, very nebulous lunch hours... more absentee-ism... I don't know what it is about us white people, but to us, "be there at 8am" means "be there at 7:45," and calling in sick is something we only do if there is blood, vomit, or a protruding bone concerned.

When we get sent off for training, the white ones are always there first. We're like compulsive. And I am literally nervous at admitting that I have noticed this. But I can't help noticing it! My black and Hispanic co-workers are warm, wonderful, friendly, nice people. But DAMNED if you can find them sometimes.

[hinckley buzzard]

Cleveland Public Schools just announced they are firing 80 (count them) incompetent, bad teachers. Nothing like this has happened in recorded memory, and it still is not a done deal because the whorehouse "teachers" union is fiercely opposing the elimination of deadwood in the school system.

The teachers are mostly or all black and the students are mostly or all black, and the mayor and school board are mostly or all black. So you can imagine what it would take for the students to come out on top. The ominous reverberations of "that's racist!" are beginning to be heard already.

[GeronL]

Sounds like a huge mess, now if one of those teachers came out gay it would throw everything off.

[MV=PY]

"Late for work, late for meetings, very nebulous lunch hours... more absentee-ism... I don't know what it is about us white people, but to us, "be there at 8am" means "be there at 7:45," and calling in sick is something we only do if there is blood, vomit, or a protruding bone concerned."

"When we get sent off for training, the white ones are always there first. We're like compulsive. And I am literally nervous at admitting that I have noticed this. But I can't help noticing it! My black and Hispanic co-workers are warm, wonderful, friendly, nice people. But DAMNED if you can find them sometimes. "

That is the problem. I don't for a minute believe it has to do with IQ. It has to do with culture, environment, and pride.

If we could just figure out how to keep these folks from being disenfranchised and educate them, the nation's productivity would take off like a rocket!

Unfortunately, the culture and the education system has failed them, and the root cause of the failure is found in the "good intentions" of the progressives.

[jughandle]

Seething tells me taxes are going up and I smell a new assistance program or two..

[5th MEB]

UUUHHH, because most of them are gang bangers and drug users?

[grimalkin]

Everyone knows that racism is not the problem when it comes to low admissions rates for blacks and other designated minority groups. The problem is poor test scores, the inability to compete equally when the rules are neutral and not rigged in their favor. The reasons for this incompetence are many -- corrupt inner city K-12 schools run by liberals and Democrats, lack of stable two-parent homes, anti-intellectual cultural attitudes. But none them will be addressed as long as the Big Lie that white racists are holding minorities back persists.

-David Horowitz

[PigRigger]

We CA Guy.....you hit the bullseye....but no one will go there....can't have the destruction of the family unit as the overiding reason can we...

Honestly, I work as a professional in NYC...if you are a minority and bring talent to the table....the world is your oyster....

So sad....the answer is so obvious...but because of PC....the need to blame others...

[Joe Boucher]

Oh,
you must be a typical “white man keeping the negro down”.

[D Rider]

Really simple. Bad language and presentation skills wrapped in affirmative action. Why does an employer (other that the government) want to add risk to their business. The idea is to reduce risk and increase profits.

When I hire young workers, I want someone that I can get rid of no questions asked. I might need to layoff for economic reasons, and I do not need any additional headache. I just may need to get rid of someone cause they are not working out. It is really very simple, whites are the easiest to get rid of, therefore they have the most opportunity available to them.

[trisham]

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."

~Thucydides

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[Veto!]

His company can't find and keep good people because they just don't seem to think they need to show up for work on time, and then to just STFU and do the job.

Yep. "Suit up and show up" is a mottos in 12-Step groups as well. Maybe it needs to get translated into Spanish and whatever the ghetto language is called these days.

[Veto!]

When we get sent off for training, the white ones are always there first. We're like compulsive. And I am literally nervous at admitting that I have noticed this. But I can't help noticing it! My black and Hispanic co-workers are warm, wonderful, friendly, nice people. But DAMNED if you can find them sometimes.

It really is a cultural thing, but needs to be an Hispanic/Black thing as well. How can you translate it? Come to think of it, whatever happened to positive slogans framed on lunchroom walls? "Get to work on time" kinda stuff….

[MrB]

Not “you”, but your “whiteness”.
Your mere existence is keeping them down.

Seriously, when your culture is inherently in opposition to “what works”, you’re going to be “less successful”.

So, the real answer is simple, assimilate!

[MrB]

You’ve completely solved the problem!

[Altura Ct.]

If’n the white man would get his foot offamy throat I could be somebody!

[MrB]

Ask any lib, and of course they’ll give you that answer.
It’s axiomatic and not subject to any sort of scrutiny.