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Dem Congresswoman Blames Black Unemployment On "Racism"
RCP ^ | 23 Aug 2011 | Anon

Posted on 08/24/2011 3:35:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan

"When you look at African American males, 40% of them are unemployed, those under 30 years of age. I understand exactly the entire nation must be involved in this recovery but the black community is experiencing a great recession. That's what we're experiencing," Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) told MSNBC.

"And all of the growth in the past 30 years, we see it slipping away. From home ownership, the middle class; it's slipping away from our hands. And it has a lot to do with many issues. Racism, shipping jobs overseas, access -- no access to technology. You know, the digital divide is there and many of the new jobs that's what it requires. So, we have a problem."

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To: Rummyfan

If her contention were true, which it is not, and because she has risen fairly high in her career and must therefore be representative of her constituency, my question is this...

...can you blame employers for not wanting people of her whining, I’m-a-victim, illogical, under-powered and/or under-worked mentality on the payroll?


21 posted on 08/24/2011 4:35:37 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Rummyfan
The whole situation is sad, even tragic. The only thing basically wrong with many black men is the stupid culture of irresponsibility in which they are immersed. Fatherlessness is a disaster for many of them and coupled with the pseudo-victim status and the abhorrence for education that are aspects of that culture, they are truly in a downward spiral.

Conversely, when black men join the military services where they are strongly introduced to an ordered, disciplined system and a true functioning meritocracy, they do very well. I have known thousands of superb black Americans in the services who are among the most valuable citizens in this country. When they leave the service, they are much sought-after for the workplace because they are proven, productive men and women.

The material is excellent but it is spoiled by the trashy, undisciplined "culture" surrounding them. Heckova waste.

22 posted on 08/24/2011 4:36:19 AM PDT by Chainmail
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To: TSgt

It all goes back to the home and lack of parental involvement during the child’s early development.


23 posted on 08/24/2011 4:36:39 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: Rummyfan

What Frederica there doesn’t want everyone to know is that a huge amount of black males DON’T truly want to work. They have become particularly adept at working a little while at the temp agency, quit because it might require some night, weekend and holiday hours as well as physical labor. Then they dabble at fast food, washing cars, cutting hair. They shack up with any babysmama that is getting “that check” or has a job herself, which is usually in the service industry. They have been doing this generationally.

They eventually get into stealing copper, burglary and dealing dope. You want to see some real unemployment in the hood? Legalize drugs.


24 posted on 08/24/2011 4:38:24 AM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: erkyl
This is why it has to stop. Let any children that are in the system continue but cut off the ‘welfare for breeding’. Let the liberals continue their eugenic abortion clinics WITHOUT taxpayers money and I guarantee you will see things improve.
25 posted on 08/24/2011 4:41:31 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: pepsionice

She obviously missed Philly Mayor Michael A. Nutter’s insightful analysis of the problem:

“Pull your pants up and buy a belt ‘cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”

“If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,”


26 posted on 08/24/2011 4:43:24 AM PDT by plangent
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To: Rummyfan

Cong. Wilson, henceforth to be known as “The Hat”.

That red thing recalls the Don Imus show when his drugged out assistant Sid Rosenberg lost a bet and had to appear on camera in a Dale Evans cowgirl outfit complete with red hat and skirt, and had to sing “Happy Trails to You”.

Rosenberg was fired after 9-11 when he picked up a laundry parcel that belonged to a Twin Towers victim then said he kept the shirts because their owner was dead. Real class.


27 posted on 08/24/2011 4:43:33 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: Rummyfan
I thought racism was dying in this country.

But Obama exposed it by showing America and the world that many blacks are taught to keep it alive by expressing their hatred of whitey and by blaming all their woes on whitey's (non-existent) hatred of them.

That accomplishes two unwanted things for blacks. First, it alerts "whitey" that he is hated (and that such hatred is systemic in many black churchs) and, second, it prevents many blacks from accepting responsibility for their problems so that they can then solve them.

And then there is the very fact that the accusation of racism itself (by all on the left, black and white) is so obviously the projection of the racism they themselves embrace. When you are a racist, you assume everyone else is.

28 posted on 08/24/2011 4:45:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Rummyfan
"When you look at African American males, 40% of them are unemployed, those under 30 years of age. ~snip~ So, we have a problem."
Yes 'we', as in you and the rest of 'Holder's People', do have a problem. Solely because of the choices those 40% of blacks 30 and under made starting 16 years ago. And that was -- DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL you dumb ass. Then adding to their general lack of knowledge -- which reduces the odds of getting a GOOD JOB by a factor of 104 power -- was their other decision to talk in some language that only somewhat resembles English.

Like the mayor of Philly said, it's mostly 'grunts and groans' and nobody can understand you. It's so bad that on the TV Program First 48 they have to add subtitles for everything the Black suspects say during 'questioning'. Now that's something to really be proud of isn't it. Subtitles needed for Americans.

So take your 'Racism' and shove it up your ignorant patoot. The problem is with 'Your People', and how they've decided they WANT to live -- Period.

an aside: And lady, next time leave the Red Plastic 'Cowboy' Hat at home. The Circus left town a month ago and the Rodeo isn't coming until February.

30 posted on 08/24/2011 4:51:08 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: Rummyfan

Why do you think Obama wants a “Department of Jobs”? Once given “power” by Congress, they would start writing “creeping” regulations on hiring practices(quotas) and wages for every business in the USA. The EPA and Dept of Education started small but look at the power they now wield over the populace.


31 posted on 08/24/2011 4:52:34 AM PDT by radioone (Don't let the media pick our nominee. "Palin 2012")
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To: Fred911

It would also help if they learned to speak English rather than old plantation. Also they should wear something that covered their underwear.


32 posted on 08/24/2011 4:56:27 AM PDT by ruesrose (It's possible to be clueless without being blonde.)
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To: Rummyfan

Whatever happened to those days back before the 70’s where you put on good clothes or a coat and tie and presented yourself to your prospective employer to impress him?

When you spoke, you spoke clearly and with proper English.

The most true statement that could be made is “you only get one chance at a first impression.”

When you interview you are SELLING yourself and trying to show the prospective employer just how you would enhance his workforce, sales team, technical team, etc...

Now, take our current state of black “yutes.” Need I say more.


33 posted on 08/24/2011 4:57:01 AM PDT by DH ( Rick Perry 2012...Be proud to be an American once again!)
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To: RoosterRedux
I think she's right.

Government policies that adversely affect the black community to a greater extent than other demographic groups are racist and should be abolished.

Those policies include open borders, chain migration, a failure to enforce the ban on hiring illegals, the DREAM Act (or Obama's regulatory version thereof), the minimum wage, unionized public education, public welfare programs that incentivize unwed motherhood and the abandonment of the responsibilities of fatherhood, and any law that inhibits an employer from disciplining or dismissing an employee based on that employee's membership in a "protected group," which laws have the effect of discouraging the hiring of such people in the first place.

34 posted on 08/24/2011 5:02:50 AM PDT by p. henry
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To: Rummyfan

I bet this wouldn’t happen if we had a black president.


35 posted on 08/24/2011 5:03:22 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Rummyfan

Being black is more of a cultural/social thing than a racial thing.

There are plenty of “black” whites, just like there were white indians in the 1850s.


36 posted on 08/24/2011 5:03:58 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: p. henry

I should have added: Black studies departments at public universities, which have the effect of promoting racial divisions and resentments and do not provide their students with skills desireable in the workplace, the Davis Bacon Act (which limits the ability of non-union contractors to compete), and any government program which “necessarily” causes the costs of the basic necessities of life to “skyrocket.”


37 posted on 08/24/2011 5:08:56 AM PDT by p. henry
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To: TSgt

Schools get extra funds for the *developmentally disabled*. Mothers get an extra SSDI check. The classification includes kids who are not disabled, but who simply cannot sit still in class and are routinely prescribed drugs for ADD or whatever it is called these days.

I believe a teacher of the disabled commands a higher salary. They usually have Master’s degrees.

Subsidize anything and you will get more of it.


38 posted on 08/24/2011 5:19:32 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: MagnoliaB
I respectfully disagree. He was elected because a large number of Americans are racist. He was not primarily elected for his expressed policies. He was elected in the main because he claims to be black and has a black wife. Our first affirmative action president got the office because of his race, ergo racism. The video of interviews in Harlem pre-election where McCain's policies were put forward as Obama’s and then the respondents asked if they favored those policies is only one of many proofs of that thesis.
39 posted on 08/24/2011 5:20:16 AM PDT by ricmc2175
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To: danielmryan
Playing the race fiddle while the inner city burns?

The reason so many of these inner city thugs are staying there for the flash mob beatings and robberies is they know that if they venture into the suburbs and pull a flash attack at a Walmarts, there will be a less thugs at the next gang flash.

40 posted on 08/24/2011 5:24:02 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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