Posted on 06/20/2022 10:07:31 AM PDT by justme4now
https://www.theroot.com/the-black-workforce-by-the-numbers-1790876971
1. In total, black Americans make up about 12 percent of the workforce. That’s about 18,758,000 black Americans in a workforce of about 155 million people.
2. African Americans are overrepresented in the federal government, which was one of the first sectors to integrate. Just over 20 percent of the black workforce is employed by federal, state and local governments.
3. Sixty-four percent of black female workers are in white-collar positions. Fifty percent of black men hold similar positions.
4. When it comes to blue-collar jobs, 36 percent of black men are employed in that sector, compared with 8 percent of black women.
5. The unemployment rate for black teens remains higher than that of white teenagers. As of July 2014, the unemployment rate for black teenagers ages 16-19 was 34.9 percent, while the unemployment rate for white teens was 18.3 percent.
6. Nearly 30 percent of black workers are employed in education, health care or social assistance.
7. Although black Americans’ employment rate lags behind that of white workers at every educational level, the gaps are smaller for those with higher education. For example, the unemployment rate for African Americans with a college degree stands at 7.1 percent, compared with 3.9 percent for white Americans. Black Americans with only a high school diploma are experiencing a 15.5 percent unemployment rate, compared with 8.4 percent for white Americans with just a high school diploma.
8. The overall percentage of black Americans in the workforce, at 61.7 percent as of July 2014, is the lowest among all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. This is not a new phenomenon: Black unemployment has been higher than that of white Americans and Latinos for 40 years.
9. The average weekly pay for black men is $653. For black women, it’s $595.
10. Black Americans make up just 2 percent of high-level executives in Fortune 500 companies.
This is 2014 data, it is surely much higher now. Tell me again where the pre-judging is going on in Government? It is against whites in all areas but the very top, where the elites don’t allow blacks (lower case b) to enter in anything but a minor pct.
These idiots seem proud of this insulting piece of sculpture. Is that a clenched fist symbol at the top of the handle? If so, that makes the sculpture appearing to suggest that the hair pick is being used as a weapon to symbolically stab someone.
I think the Republican leader did the emancipation proclamation much earlier than June 19 1865. It just took that long for the realization to hit that it was twue.... just a joke.... when Texans found out, the mail was a tad slower then. Not a joke.
How long until Juneteenth supercedes Independence day, Kwanza supercedes Christs Mass, and MLK day supercedes Washingtons or Lincolns birfdays...strike that last one... the birthdays of our most important Presidents are just memories of old people.
Hair Pick?
Not a Prison Shiv?
I’m sure they had to put something up to replace all those Conferate Statues.
I tried a little bit, but did not find out who that horn player is on the left.
(On the LEFT of course, but I speak positionally.)
speaks of the shallowness of a once proud culture...a hair comb....
Nothing there a few guys with sawzalls can’t fix.
It’s not a giant pick. It’s a black power and separatist symbol supported by a fake giant pick.
It means “Whitey, we hate you even if we live off your money. We blame you for our self-inflicted failures and want you dead, after you give us all your money!”
Paid for with taxpayer money.
“many whites continued to treat blacks terribly, and some still do, and I wish that weren’t so.”
In the world I have lived in for seventy years, many blacks continued to treat whites terribly every single year. I wish that weren’t so.
Whitemen fought, bled, and died to hand freedom on a silver platter to black slaves. On June 19th, 1865, a small number of those former slaves were informed of that gift. Their descendants are whining because the platter wasn’t gold ...
People generally don’t value what they haven’t earned.
“In the world I have lived in for seventy years, many blacks continued to treat whites terribly every single year. I wish that weren’t so.”
A worthy addition to my post. I haven’t seen that but I don’t know the inner thoughts of the blacks in my world (mainly at my job).
So did I. This is Babylon Bee material.
I’m sure the average liberated ex-slave was very grateful for what the overwhelmingly Republican Union army did for them. Their descendants, not so much.
That doesn’t mean that those descendants are willfully blind. No, it’s because they have been subject to decades and decades of Democrat propaganda, all with little GOP pushback. It’s a damn shame.
A hair pick. Yeah that’s appropriate to demonstrate the advances of technology brought from africa. This is actually perfect.
My age of innocence ended when I was twelve years old.
A young black man from the nearby big city visited the neighborhood and raped one of the local housewives.
Then everybody installed burglar alarms and bought big dogs.
Before that moment (for many decades) all the doors in the neighborhood were unlocked and everyone felt safe twenty four/seven.
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