Posted on 09/14/2014 9:14:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FERGUSON • In less than half an hour, thousands of people arrived, dressed in jeans and suits, with their résumés in hand.
The line to get into a room where dozens of potential employers sat waiting was at least 45 minutes long.
A job fair sponsored by the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis on Saturday drew about 5,000. The event, held at St. Louis Community College’s Florissant Valley campus, was supposed to end at 2 p.m.
But it ran more than an hour long just so everyone who had waited in line could interview.
Damon Williams, 38, said frustration with the high unemployment rate among African-Americans — roughly three times higher than for whites — was always boiling beneath the surface. But after Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown on Aug. 9, the anger over his death coupled with a profound sense of alienation spilled into the streets.
“It just seems like we are stuck,” he said. “People are getting fed up.”
That was why the Urban League hosted the fair, said league president Michael P. McMillan. The fair was held about three miles from where Brown was shot.
McMillan, who had spent time talking to protesters, said certain themes ran through his conversations.
“They didn’t have jobs,” he said. “They didn’t have educational opportunities. They needed skills and they needed resources ... We would get right in the middle of it, right away.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
I am not going to bash poor people for wanting to get a job. Ghetto remains ghetto not because poor people never amount to anything, but because the ones that do instantly leave.
“Voter Registration, Free Groceries and Free Toiletries?” There’s the problem right there? This wasn’t a job fair. This was a vote for me and get free stuff fair.
What? No classes on how to fake your way past a drug screening? That’s lame.
I’ve run almost a dozen large job fairs. The only “free” things were refreshments for the employers in the break room, but since they were paying hundreds or thousands of dollars per table, that cookie, sandwich and coffee really isn’t free, is it?
But who can blame them? And it’s like a crab bucket.
I wasted six years of skol!
Nothing wrong with this.
Our government panders to foreigners with far more aid and asisstance.
Better that our own people have hope.
Notice how many of those employers are gubermint or gubermint funded. The thing is, those in their suits seeking employment were likely NOT the ones rioting and looting. Protesting, yes, I can buy that, but not the looters.
I take it Quik Trip wasn’t one of the employers there.
Show me where I condemned a job fair.
“Damon Williams, 38, said frustration with the high unemployment rate among African-Americans — roughly three times higher than for whites — was always boiling beneath the surface”
He should thank his slavemaster, obama, for that.
So what do they do, burn down places where actually employ them....real smart. /s
Bad Job strategy—Destroy and loot local businesses, then get frustrated there are no jobs there.
But it ran more than an hour long just so everyone who had waited in line could interview.Well, that and not cause a riot.
Didnt say you did.
Show me where i said that.
Yeah. . .just what I want to do. . .hire a bunch of rioting thugs. . .
I hope many of them get themselves jobs and join society as productive citizens.
At 38 or thereabouts I’d already “retired” from two careers.
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