...Black Americans don't have employment advantages over whites...
You haven't visited an average Federal facility since 1964, have you?
The Federal workforce is 18.1% Black.
http://www.fedweek.com/issue-briefs/demographics-of-federal-workforce-summarized/
Blacks only constitute 13.3% of the US population.
Population estimates, July 1, 2016, (V2016)
And that's just "overall".
In some agencies, like the US Postal Service, Social Security, DoD, and the VA, the ratio seems considerably higher, in favor of Blacks.
Fifty-three years since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, with generous hiring quotas in government employment, government contractor-vendor employment, many state, county and municipal governments and their contractors and vendors, and academia, and Blacks
still do not have their act together -
as a collective.
Worse still, vast numbers of White folk have grown tired of listening to perpetual Black whining, victim-mentality rants and demands, and endless Black excuses for chronic under-performing, as well as Blacks' never-ending failures to take responsibility for their own destinies, and endless failures to stand on their own.
In the nonprofit sector, that's called Donor Exhaustion; when benefactors (including those who temporarily (for 50-60 years) assume burdens (such as quotas) finally say "enough".
With SNAP and TANF and LIHEAP about to be tossed aside, looks like fun-time's over, kiddies.
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It's really a damned shame, about Black (collective) chronic under-performing.
Democrats-Liberals-Progressives had such hope for them, in 1964 and over the intervening decades.
Large numbers of Blacks are highly motivated, hard-working, intelligent, and able to contribute to both their own families and society at large...
And then you have vast numbers of Black Folk whose minds are still stuck in the 19th, and howling at the moon about Forty Acres and a Mule (which isn't going to happen - ever)...
The odd thing is, those who Dare to be Different, get their asses out of the inner-city ghettos, and participate in a broader America beyond the City Limits, and most prosper.
The only way Black Folk are going to thrive in America, is to disperse into suburbia and the countryside and stake-out claims as Americans, rather than as Blacks.
Over the past couple of centuries, every other demographic group has been obliged (or been inclined) to split-up and leave their ethnic enclaves behind...
There are still pockets and neighborhoods in most American cities which are identifiable (in reality, or historically-nominally) as Italian, Irish, German, Polish, Chinese, Russian, etc...
But for every person still left behind in those vastly-shrunken enclaves, there are a hundred descendants of those who Dared to Be Different, and who left their ghettos...
I realize that Skin Color is a complicating issue, but it has no bearing upon speculation that in order to prosper, Blacks are going to have to disperse, and participate.
Time for Black Folk to start scattering far and wide across America, and leave their decades-old comfortable,
emotionally-safe neighborhoods behind.
When, in their own minds, they become Americans, rather than African-Americans, then they'll have removed the last barriers in their own minds, to forward progress.
In the final analysis, it's the
only way forward for them.