- They won control over our schools due to "Racism Chasing"
- They won control over city hall due to "Racism Chasing"
- They won control over the local economic policies in our communities due to "Racism Chasing"
- They diverted attention away from the problems that made some of our communities bad for business, claiming that the legacy of Racism is what prompted those who were acting out from our people
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Black Joblessness Is Obama's Next Big Challenge
There's an even bigger reason for the stubbornly high numbers that defy reason in the good times, a reason that conservatives routinely deride, and liberals downplay out of political fear. That's the persistent and deep racial discrimination in the workplace. The mountain of federal and state anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action programs and successful employment discrimination lawsuits give the public the impression that job discrimination is a relic of a shameful, racist past.
Yet recent studies have found that black men without a criminal record are less likely to find a job than white men with criminal records. This is despite the volumes of state and federal laws that ban racial discrimination. The Urban League's annual State of Black America reports, a 2005 Human Rights Watch report and the numerous discrimination complaints reviewed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over the past decade reveal that employers have devised endless dodges to evade anti-discrimination laws. This includes rejecting applicants based on their names or areas of the city they live in. Black applicants may be incorrectly told that jobs advertised were filled already. One study even documented that employer's name-code blacks to exclude them from hiring. Those with Islamic or Afro-centric sounding names are red penciled from their interview list.
A decade ago, in a seven-month comprehensive university study of the hiring practices of hundreds of Chicago area employers, many top company officials when interviewed said they would not hire blacks. When asked to assess the work ethic of white, black and Latino employees by race, nearly 40 percent of the employer's ranked blacks dead last.
How long are you going to use RACISM CHASING as your primary career development track for your people?
We can go through various permutations for our study:
- An overwhelming Black community (East St Louis)
- A diverse and overwhelmingly Democratic/Progressive community (Chicago)
- A suburban community where Blacks exit their the urban residences and travel into the suburbs to look for a job (Milwaukee)
It matters not what the variables are - the RESULTS are the same. Black people's rate of unemployment will be higher than that of others.
WHY is it that "RACISM" proves to be the first diagnosis that is found in the medical book?
Why is it that racism chasing is the first bottle of pills that are pulled off of the shelf?
Never do we hear certain theories that are rejected as racist being accepted as contributing factors:
- The image of the Black male as UNMANAGED in the public space (and dilberately crafted by 'Hip Hop Voice Of The Street Pirate') have the unintentional impact of staining the character assumptions applied to "real Black folks".
- Those who resist standing against illegal immigration because to do so is racist merely allow more job and wage competition at the lower rungs of the employment space
- Those who use their "labor monopoly" power to drive up the cost of labor to the "consumers of labor" unwittingly drive these consumers out of the marketplace into another
Notice that the machine that holds this view is able to grow in power as it pursue external enemies to Black Employment. Yet the lands that they are elected to represent never seem to break free of this unemployment cycle despite having more "favorable people" in power than ever before.
The "industrial complex" of intending to satisfy "Negro Grievances" proves quite profitable.
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