Black, male, jobless: Rate mired near 50%
The article is from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The unemployment rate for black males ages 16 – 64 has dropped to 47%. Dropped. And these figures are from before a loss of 50,000 jobs in the Milwaukee area.
There’s this;
The report ranked Milwaukee fifth-worst for African-American male joblessness among the nation’s 35 largest metropolitan areas. Milwaukee had the greatest disparity in rates between racial groups.
And this;
One factor in the relatively low frequency of employment among black men is racial discrimination, said Lenard Wells, director of two satellite campuses of Concordia University Wisconsin.
No shit, Sherlock. I’m surprised that a paper as seemingly conservative as JS would mention this. The editorial page usually makes me want to wad it up in a ball and spit on it.
Maybe “post-racial” hasn’t made it into “fly-over land.”
ETA; There was this post at Booman Tribune two weeks ago. about ACORN and the people it serves. I don’t want to cut an excerpt; please go read it.
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October 10, 2009 at 4:12 am
lella
ACORN just got slam dunked and Obama did NOT read the whole of it, and his knee jerk reactions just ruined any chance they had of making it back after the wrecking ball hit them in the teeth. They are definitely set up. I hope he takes the whole of the 1 million plus bucks and donates it to ACORN. As someone pointed out, probably in Democratic Underground, General Electric should have been sliced and diced over HUGE fraud that they were running. It just makes you sick.