In The Face Of Increasing Black Unemployment The Black Press Obama Minority Whip Market The Administrations Job Creation Efforts

National Urban League: Targeted jobs program needed in bad economy


I am presently doing research that compares the Black employment rates in the oft attacked Mississippi versus that which can be found in Black majority districts in more "enlightened" Northern states.   My preliminary finding is that, sadly, there is not much difference.   The one common denominator, however, is the institutional leadership that is in control over both places - the "former Confederacy in the Heart Of Dixie" as well as the "Progressive Norther states". 

In the context of this research it is stunning for me to read the words of Marc Morial - former mayor of New Orleans and present head of the National Urban League.  As a component of the Black Establishment he and his organization need not worry that they will ever be blamed by the "rank and file" Black people for presiding over their economic destruction.  Instead Mr Morial and his organization are allowed to operate as marketing oracles on behalf of the Obama Administration.  They effectively "sell" the Black community on the government programs that the Obama Administration is putting forth in order to remedy the situation.

When I suggested several years ago that "Obama" should not be seen as "the man" but instead should be consider in the context of "the machine" which he is apart of - this current orchestration of message should provide the details needed to prove me correct to my skeptics.

In the face of Black unemployment rates that have recently creeped upward 15.8% to the present 16.5% the National Urban League saw fit to stem the tide of doubt and criticism that might expand within the Black community and release a preemptive statement of support.  I conclude that the NUL merely likes what they are seeing because it is in line with their IDEOLOGICAL leanings, more than they can look at any particular track record as to what these type of programs have done in the past to create an ORGANIC jobs and economic foundation for these persistently struggling communities.

From The Article

"Chronic unemployment" persists in Black communities, which is helping to worsen the racial “equality gap” in this country in education, housing and social justice: That is the true “State of Black America 2010,” according to the National Urban League.

“I believe that we're at a time of crisis and crossroads,” National Urban League President Marc Morial told The Final Call March 24. “We can't celebrate when the unemployment rate is 15 percent and so many people have lost their jobs. What we can do is be inspired and hopeful that with the president and this congressional leadership team, that we can try to move the ball and get some things done. That's why we've placed so much, so much emphasis on our recommendations. Not just, ‘What is the problem?' but here are real solutions.”

First it is important for the NUL to blame the employment problems in the Black community upon "structural racism".  This clears the deck of any notion that their policies which are in place within these once great industrial production centers have any part in the present downfall.

In yet another bit of "insider trading" that is abundant among the Black Establishment - Mr Morial avoids a stinging attack against the present administration despite the numbers that are present.  Instead he choose to detail his pleasure in the plan forward.

QUESTION:

What is the entity within the Black community that will later do an appraisal of the EFFECTIVENESS of this grand scheme?    What will be the cost suffered to Obama, the machine that is in control over these places and the National Urban League if the plan falls short?

• In 3 years - where does this unemployment rate among Black Americans stand?
• Of the jobs that have been created - how much of them are a direct function of federal spending necessary to perpetuate them?
• Who is the consumer of that which is produced by these jobs?  Of these consumers who have a demand that is needed to be met - why is it that their own resources were not sufficient to fund these jobs?  Transacting money for their "receipt of service"?

At what point will th e Black rank and file take a step back from the narrative that has been set up as a "model" of the world that the Black American is said to experience and instead being to inspect the ACCURACY of this model on our way to determining a more permanent fix?

Despite having firm control over these eco-systems it appears that this machine is not able to correlate the academic, economic, cultural and human resources together to create a self-sustaining system.  They will always apply their loyalties to the highest bidder who offers to inject the most substantive amount of resources that were synergized from external sources.