[Leaning Right]

> And the bigger problem with these inner-city populations isn’t that they are filled with unemployed people … it’s that they’re filled with UNEMPLOYABLE people. <

I talk for decades in inner-city high schools. Some of my classes were 90% or more black. And even in the worst of those classes, most of the kids were okay. They had serious attendance problems. And a few disruptive students ruined the learning for everyone.

But here’s the thing. When they were there, most of those kids at least tried. They made the effort.

Given a bit of structure, most of them would do well. And nothing provides structure like a good factory paycheck.

[Alberta's Child]

By the time those students reach the age of 18 most of them have already acquired too many bad habits and social influences to be productive workers.

Go talk to anyone who has managed a government-funded construction project on an Indian reservation how well things worked out for them.