Posted on 09/14/2014 9:14:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FERGUSON • In less than half an hour, thousands of people arrived, dressed in jeans and suits, with their résumés in hand.
The line to get into a room where dozens of potential employers sat waiting was at least 45 minutes long.
A job fair sponsored by the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis on Saturday drew about 5,000. The event, held at St. Louis Community College’s Florissant Valley campus, was supposed to end at 2 p.m.
But it ran more than an hour long just so everyone who had waited in line could interview.
Damon Williams, 38, said frustration with the high unemployment rate among African-Americans — roughly three times higher than for whites — was always boiling beneath the surface. But after Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown on Aug. 9, the anger over his death coupled with a profound sense of alienation spilled into the streets.
“It just seems like we are stuck,” he said. “People are getting fed up.”
That was why the Urban League hosted the fair, said league president Michael P. McMillan. The fair was held about three miles from where Brown was shot.
McMillan, who had spent time talking to protesters, said certain themes ran through his conversations.
“They didn’t have jobs,” he said. “They didn’t have educational opportunities. They needed skills and they needed resources ... We would get right in the middle of it, right away.”(continued)
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It’s interesting that liberals believe poverty creates crime, but conservatives tend to believe crime creates poverty. Think about it.
I believe neither. I think that evil thoughts create evil actions and wealth, or a lack of, has little or nothing to do with it.
Bingo! I'd bet 99% were there for the freebies.
I'd like to know just how many were actually hired and how many showed up to work at the appropriate time.
Excuse me, but every minority there had the same exact educational opportunity as the next guy. Don't blame someone else that you dropped out of school, popped out 6 babies by 6 different guys and have done nothing with yourself but wear dirty pink bunny slippers and watch tv for the past decade. And NO! This has NOTHING to do with that stupid punk Brown so don't use it as a crutch.
Loot and burn then be rewarded .Society is upside down
Another freeper showed me the perfect term for it. anarcho-tyranny
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-tyranny
Samuel Francis... introduced the word “anarcho-tyranny”... “we refuse to control real criminals (that’s the anarchy) so we control the innocent (that’s the tyranny).”
the ferguson fiasco, illegal immigration, gun laws etc. All perfect examples.
I used to do job fairs for the corporation I worked at. Only about 1 in 10 were actually interested in getting a job. The rest were there for the freebies.
How does this work?
You loot and burn down the businesses in your community and now you host a job fair?
Guess a temp job might be available for sweeping up the rubble.
Home buying information.
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