Blacks' economic gains wiped out in downturn

MSNBC ^ | 7/10/2011 | JESSE WASHINGTON/ap

[Venturer]

In the case of blacks their Grandchildren are not being shot by a firing squad, they are being sucked out of the womb at abortion clinics by the thousand's——and they don't seem to mind.

[nascarnation]

30 years in a house, yet it gets foreclosed?

I'm betting evil Republican bankers forced her to take out a series of home equity loans.

[nascarnation]

Last April, black male unemployment hit the highest rate since the government began keeping track in 1972. Only 56.9 percent of black men over age 20 were working, compared with 68.1 percent of white men.

Another new economic record for the Baraqqi Regime!

[boop]

I was trying to think what planet this writer was on. We're NOT in a recession now? GWB must have been a genius to leave the country not in recession when he LEFT in 2009.

I'm also trying to be nice about this lady, but she had her second kid at age 21? Not usually a formula for success, unless you're married to a guy who can support you. And I applaud her 17 years of working in a job, but she should have a pretty nice nest egg saved up by then, good insurance for her sick hubby while she was working, fully vested retirement, and a paid off house after 30 years (lots of equity/value even if the house has lost value).