the unemployment in “the ghetto” is largely a factor of the WILL.
I will smoke dope I will be a Dealer...I will make big bucks stealing dealing and pimping.
I will not get me no job working for whitey.
A few generations of thet “mindset” will be hard to crack...regardless of the tools used oi attempt to do so
Boy, I hate to sound cliche, but while this may help one out of a hundred, two parents with at least one working under the same roof and married would do more than ANY technology or outside insinuation can do.
Yeah, they’re called ATMs...............
If we could teach them email scams, they would have skills to earn a living...
Did someone create a "Where's My Crack" mobile app?
The only technology that has a chance of improving the lot of those who embrace the ghetto entitlement culture is a Bible app on their smart phone.
The nation will ALWAYS need MANY workers that do manual labor, be it stoop labor in a farm field, working with ones hands in the construction industry, or any kind of service job, and if employers and the CoC continue to seek out those who are willing to work for less than the going rate and under the table (the INVADERS), no longer will those jobs be available to young citizens starting out in life or citizens who have years of experience in a trade.
The inner city already get a ton of money.
What they need is a change of attitudes, a change of values.
The basics needed for most jobs include:
-Punctuality
-Reliability
-Personal responsibility
-Honesty
-Cooperation
-Social skills
-Communication skills
If you can’t satisfy most of the items above, what good are the computer skills referenced in the article?
The author might want to ask these questions:
-Why are there no glowing success stories in America’s inner cities that can stand as examples of progress?
-Why have the higher IQ individuals of all races fled from the inner cities?
-Why don’t employers move their businesses to inner cities where there are large numbers of potential workers?
-Why is the continent of Africa in decline under black rule?
-Why is the performance of blacks in schools so uniformly poor?
Why, after spending trillions of dollars in the war on poverty do we still have inner city ghettos?
Almost anyone who can read and write can be trained in 2 days to 2 months to do almost any job. Many govt jobs need about 2 minutes training. Science based jobs are exceptions.
Then how are those kids doing in school? By this writer's logic, if having knowledge of a computer means success, why aren't those kids successful in school and then at work?
Black kids lag far behind white and Asian kids. It's not the digital divide that's keeping them behind.
the gulf between those who are comfortable using computers and those who are not is often called the “digital divide.” According to Child Trends, 93 percent of Asian and 91 percent of white children have computers in their homes, compared to only 74 of black children and 69 percent of white children...
Is it 91 or 69 percent of white children.