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Actually, the demagogues have it backwards. What has contributed to Black Unemployment have been the post slavery enticements to dependence on Government, which have diverted Black youth from developing skills that their forebears learned on the great plantations prior to 1865.

The systematic corruption started in the "Reconstruction" era, with promises of Government provided "equality"--and in promises of "forty acres & a mule." At the end of the War (1865) a majority of those employed in the skilled building trades in the deep South were Black artisans. Over the next generation, this fell off sharply, to small minorities remaining. It was in this disastrous situation that Booker T. Washington--the great self-taught educator stepped up, and tried to reverse the trend.

Washington advocated learning a trade, and becoming an indispensable part of the economy. But while his efforts initially did a lot of good; and his appeal to the White employer class (Booker T. Washington Address) was heralded across America, the positive thrust forward was again derailed by the antics of the NAACP and others who renewed the efforts to make the Negro dependent upon Government.

The idea that Slavery is somehow magically preventing people from mastering skills that their forebears had already mastered during the slave era, is patently absurd--the grossest possible (and deliberate) confusion of cause & effect.

Those who parrot this nonsense are the enemies of the race--as truly the enemies of the race, as the demagogue now demanding "immigration reform" so as to fill the jobs that trained native American Blacks could fill, with imported folk from South of an unsecured Southern Border.

William Flax