Posted on 01/20/2014 4:41:18 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
School children all over the country know that Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. There have been essay contests to commemorate the holiday, and classes nationwide will be listening to recordings of the civil rights leader's 1963 "I Had a Dream" speech.
Fulfilling that dream, however, won't be helped by the fact that the unemployment rate for black teenagers is 35.5 percent. The rate for all teenagers is 20.2 percent.
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They drop out of school in the 10th. grade, having achieved perhaps 6th. grade proficiency. And then begin amassing a criminal record.
What would you expect?
Pull up your pants, be clean, learn English, don’t expect something you have not earned, be on time and be willing to LISTEN AND LEARN! Some part of this can be applied to every out of work person!
And telling people that we’re beaten is a great motivator.
Here’s an unpopular truth.
Most conservatives are pathetic whiners who don’t have the courage to do any heavy lifting.
Amnesty will fix this.
Pull up your pants, be clean, learn English, don’t expect anything you have not earned. Take any job you can find, be on time, be willing to DO YOUR JOB, LISTEN AND LEARN! Some part of this can be applied to every out of work person!
“Most conservatives are pathetic whiners who don’t have the courage to do any heavy lifting.”
Maybe; this conservative went out and got married, had children, and works his arse off to make a go of it. Too many people can’t be bothered with the first two; it is showing in the demographics we’re working against.
Conservatism isn’t hereditary.
“Conservatism isn’t hereditary.”
I guess that’s up to the parents.
It's incomprehensible that blacks are letting Obama off the hook. How many jobs that black youth could be filling have been taken by "Dream Act" invaders? That has been Obama's most significant "gift" to black youth.
Could the high black unemployment rate have something to do with the high criminal rate among young black males?
Or is it just the color of skin?
Not really. People have minds of their own.
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