Job-Trends Report: Black Employment Remains Bleak

What is equally disturbing is that we have an entire generation or even two of black males that don’t know how to work, even if there were jobs. When you have spent most of your life not working or working hit or miss, when the decent forty hour a week job that comes that may require work on holidays, weekends, nights or overtime, they turn it down alot.

Work ethic is in a great part handed down to us by our parents, IMHO.

“Group identity politics is a learned behavior...”

One’s choice of “politics” may be learned, but identity based upon one’s “group” is (IMO) one of the most “innate” of human characteristics. The old saying “birds of a feather” has that ring of truth about it.

I stand by what I posted. “The dream dies hard” when we cling to old (but beautifully stated) precepts that much basis in the egalitarian dreams of The Elightenment era, but little foundation in the way that people (and groups of people, be they ethnic or racial) behave in the real world.

Reality is what it is.
It is not what we believe it to be.

We cannot change the real world by statements on pieces of paper, no matter how noble the intent of those who wrote them.

...but identity based upon one’s “group” is (IMO) one of the most “innate” of human characteristics.

I would argue that ignorance (along with it's close ally - fear) are the most innate of human characteristics. "Group think", "provincialism" - pick your description. These are born of ignorance - not only of the "real" world - but the way the world was meant to be (your "beautifully stated precepts").

The cure for this ignorance: Education. Teach the precepts. If you look at the level of polarization that has been occurring in this country over the last 30-40 years you will find that it tracks very closely with the decline in our educational standards.

And the left knows this (thank you John Dewey). The left knows that an UNeducated populace, ignorant of our countries founding, one that misunderstands foundational moral truths is a populace that is malleable, easily persuaded by half-truths, "hope" and "change".

The The old saying “birds of a feather” has that ring of truth about it.

But so do many false sayings. Saying it is so doesn't make it so.

It is the ignorant who look no further than the "feathers" of skin color & home of origin. "We of the enlightenment" simply have to keep educating. In the end, Barack Obama may be the best education this country has seen in a long while.

I stand by my tagline...

“BTW: how does Cedra fit into your viewpoint?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2549007/posts";

Read the fourth paragraph of this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2547134/posts?page=9#9

There will always be a few exceptions here and there. But it’s the exceptions that prove the rule.

“But it’s the exceptions that prove the rule.”

Sorry. You’re simply describing the “great unwashed”.

The rule is ‘ignorance’.

And while they remain ignorant they will live in various states of “fear” which - until they are educated - will gravitate them towards what is “known” and comfortable - hence, less fear.

It is little different than the separation anxiety children experience when they are small. While they remain ignorant, they gravitate towards family. Then, as they learn, they expand their circle to include more and more people.

Again, what you have been describing are those whose education has simply been limited. They’ve been taught by family, friends - and especially their schools and media, that they can’t trust/believe [xyz...]

Education (and a LOT of patience) my friend...

My reply here stands:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2548209/posts?page=24#24

And - sometimes education requires pain:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2549043/posts?page=55#50

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