We have a lot of help wanted signs all over the city - fast food places, little shops, discount stores, etc. - many advertising $16 and $17 an hour, and even McDonalds is paying $14 - and yet there are lots of young black men in their late teens and early 20s hanging around outside. Some live in the subsidized housing complex several blocks from me. Why aren’t they taking these jobs?
I asked a liberal friend of mine, and she said they probably can’t read well enough to fill out the application. Sort of racist, don’t you think?