The Stone Cold Truth

[IM2]

Sun Devil, I am a man. I know your fellow stormfront butt buddies think differently, but that's their problem. And since I have provided supreme court decisions, it stands to reason that I am pretty much stating legal fact. The stone cold truth is hard for whites like you. Because you want to come here and post up your racist drivel about blacks with no interruptions.

 

[IM2]

The stone cold truth is hard for the white racist. Because it destroys the belief in their inherent superiority. So when that is challenged, they must lash out. And when they do, you come to understand that whites who practice racism do so because they are minor league insecure losers.

This is how it's going to be racists. You can work to end racism or we will go the distance. There is no other choice that you will be given. Whining about a racism that isn't in existence is not going to stop the consistent revealing of the stone cold truth. So you can keep crying or end the racism. And that's the bottom line because IM said so.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

It's now time to look at the cold, hard, graphic reality of what racism by whites has entailed. The information used in this thread will come from the book, "White Rage," by Dr. Carol Anderson.

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016

From the end of the Civil War to our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate, relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans.

White Rage — Carol Anderson

Starting with my next post, you will be shown in graphic detail the steps whites took to deprive blacks of equal rights and freedom after slavery ended up until our lifetimes. The root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism. That's a fact and it's time people faced that fact.

Do you ever post anything other than BLACK RACIST RAGE AGAINST WHITEY bull shit?

YOU are WHY racism exists in America.

No, she does not.

She spouts it all the time.

And has no idea what she is talking about.

Well surely that's all I ever see from that idiot... just racist crap, none stop.

Fucking A.

100% bullshit, 100% of the time.

Constant bleating about whites...."but I am no racist".

Can't connect an argument to an assertion...."but I am no racist".

Constantly concluding shit about whites with no coherent support...."but I am not racist."

And if you disagree with her......you are a racist.

Even though she can't provide one ounce of support for such a claim.

Every thread she starts is a big bulging bag of batshit.

 

[007]

It's now time to look at the cold, hard, graphic reality of what racism by whites has entailed. The information used in this thread will come from the book, "White Rage," by Dr. Carol Anderson.

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016

From the end of the Civil War to our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate, relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans.

White Rage — Carol Anderson

Starting with my next post, you will be shown in graphic detail the steps whites took to deprive blacks of equal rights and freedom after slavery ended up until our lifetimes. The root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism. That's a fact and it's time people faced that fact.

Do you ever post anything other than BLACK RACIST RAGE AGAINST WHITEY bull shit?

YOU are WHY racism exists in America.

No, she does not.

She spouts it all the time.

And has no idea what she is talking about.

Well surely that's all I ever see from that idiot... just racist crap, none stop.

Fucking A.

100% bullshit, 100% of the time.

Constant bleating about whites...."but I am no racist".

Can't connect an argument to an assertion...."but I am no racist".

Constantly concluding shit about whites with no coherent support...."but I am not racist."

And if you disagree with her......you are a racist.

Even though she can't provide one ounce of support for such a claim.

Every thread she starts is a big bulging bag of batshit.

Spot on.

 

[Correll]

Awww...the poor snowflakes. Who the hell isn't "wounded"? Hundreds of thousands of Irish people came here under indentured servitude, which wasn't much better than slavery.

That opinion is one of the greatest examples of falsehood that has manifested itself in the discourse about racism in America. For years I even believed that. I remember reading a book titled “Trinity” written by Leon Uris about a fictional hero of the Irish resistance named Conor Larkin. The story detailed the treatment of the Irish from the 1700’s until the 1916 uprising. Yes, the Irish were treated terribly in Europe and when they first came to America. But they were not slaves. Irish historians such as Liam Hogan have made this crystal clear. The Irish were indentured servants and not slaves. The fallacy in using indentured servitude as an argument lies in the fact that indentured servitude was a contractual agreement made between 2 or more parties. One party agreed that for payment of passage to America, the individual(s) would work for a specified term to repay the cost of passage. To say it was not much better than slavery is simply a lie. Slavery was permanent. Slavery was also generational. If you we born into a slave family, you were a slave. When you had children, they were slaves. There was no 7 years and a headright. When the master died, the slaves went to his widow. When the widow died, the slaves went to the children.

Certainly, the Irish did endure difficulties. The general argument in order to dismiss or derail conversations about the treatment of blacks, is that everybody had it tough. That is true, but everybody else CHOSE to come to America. No matter what diversion is used, Africans sold Africans to whites. The shipping companies were not owned by Africans. Nor does it appear that the more than 10 million Africans shipped across the Atlantic made any contractual agreement to perform labor in return for passage. So yes, the Europeans that chose to come here with little or nothing did struggle. But the various European ethnic groups had one thing they used to lift themselves up. And they used it to step on others- the race card.

“Whiteness is a social construct, and one with concrete benefits. Being white in the U.S. has long meant better jobs and opportunities, and an escape from persecution based on appearance and culture. Although these structural advantages remain, the meaning of whiteness is still hotly debated.”

Sarah Kendzior, How do you become “white” in America?

Now let us understand how those who claim today to have suffered like blacks did not. I will cite 2 groups, the Irish and the Polish. Both groups upon coming to this country were considered lesser, inferior, or plain just not white. In the north, Irish and blacks competed for the same jobs, or should I say, were relegated to low wage, menial labor. Irish and blacks in the north lived in the same communities. Both groups mixed socially, intermarried and had bi racial children. The green was the black when and where no blacks existed.

“In the early years of immigration the poor Irish and blacks were thrown together, very much part of the same class competing for the same jobs. In the census of 1850, the term mulatto appears for the first time due primarily to inter-marriage between Irish and African Americans. The Irish were often referred to as Negroes turned inside out and Negroes as smoked Irish. A famous quip of the time attributed to a black man went something like this: "My master is a great tyrant, he treats me like a common Irishman." Free blacks and Irish were viewed by the Nativists as related, somehow similar, performing the same tasks in society. It was felt that if amalgamation between the races was to happen, it would happen between Irish and blacks. But, ultimately, the Irish made the decision to embrace whiteness, thus becoming part of the system which dominated and oppressed blacks. Although it contradicted their experience back home, it meant freedom here since blackness meant slavery.

An article by a black writer in an 1860 edition of the Liberator explained how the Irish ultimately attained their objectives: "Fifteen or twenty years ago, a Catholic priest in Philadelphia said to the Irish people in that city, 'You are all poor, and chiefly laborers, the blacks are poor laborers; many of the native whites are laborers; now, if you wish to succeed, you must do everything that they do, no matter how degrading, and do it for less than they can afford to do it for.' The Irish adopted this plan; they lived on less than the Americans could live upon, and worked for less, and the result is, that nearly all the menial employments are monopolized by the Irish, who now get as good prices as anybody. There were other avenues open to American white men, and though they have suffered much, the chief support of the Irish has come from the places from which we have been crowded."

Once the Irish secured themselves in those jobs, they made sure blacks were kept out. They realized that as long as they continued to work alongside blacks, they would be considered no different. Later, as Irish became prominent in the labor movement, African Americans were excluded from participation. In fact, one of the primary themes of How the Irish Became White is the way in which left labor historians, such as the highly acclaimed Herbert Gutman, have not paid sufficient attention to the problem of race in the development of the labor movement.

And so, we have the tragic story of how one oppressed "race," Irish Catholics, learned how to collaborate in the oppression of another "race," Africans in America, in order to secure their place in the white republic. Becoming white meant losing their greenness, i.e., their Irish cultural heritage and the legacy of oppression and discrimination back home.”

Art McDonald, Ph.D., “How the Irish Became White”

1. The point in pointing out that other people had it tough, is not to minimize slavery. That was your strawman. Everything you wrote that attacked that, is you playing with yourself.


2. Yes. For a long time, whites discriminated against blacks. Thanks for reminding us. Again.

3. The Irish did not have a plan, nor did they join in in oppressing blacks to achieve "whiteness". You are pretending an ethnic group over generations, operated as a single entity. That is goofy of you.

Goofy ==> Normal (in this case)

Another bullshit line of reasoning that ends with the claim of institutional racism. It gets real boring after a while.

Does he really think anyone reads that shit? I skim, and that is a chore. Half the time I get to the end, and I didn't find a point other than "White Man Bad", at all.

 

[IM2]

The more you guys run your mouths trying to deny it, the more it happens.

After WBRZ report on racist messages sent from judge's phone, NAACP files complaint with Supreme Court

The NAACP filed a complaint with the Louisiana Supreme Court after WBRZ reported on a string of racist text messages sent from the phone of an area district judge.

WBRZ was first to report on the messages and allegations of an affair involving the judge and a sheriff’s deputy.

Last week, Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon said the racist text messages were sent to a deputy from a phone belonging to embattled 23rd Judicial District Judge Jessie Leblanc.

Falcon said the deputy, Bruce Prejean, received the messages in December of 2018 which refer to another deputy as a "dirty cop, thug, and a [racist expletive]." The sheriff also said the text messages refer to Judge Alvin Turner's law clerk, Brianne Sterling as a [expletive]."

WBRZ has made an editorial decision to not directly quote the word - an offensive word beginning with an "N."

Prejean admitted to a lengthy intimate relationship with the judge last month. Leblanc presided over cases he was involved in during the alleged affair, so the district attorney sent notices to hundreds of people to alert them of the possible conflict.

District Attorney Ricky Babin said letters will now be going out to every single defendant who has ever appeared before Judge Jessie Leblanc beginning in 2012, when she was first sworn in, until now. The defendants and their attorneys will be notified of the racist language she allegedly used. Judge Leblanc presides over cases for things as minor as a traffic ticket all the way up to a murder charge.

Monday, the NAACP said it was filing a complaint with the state’s highest court over the text messages.

After WBRZ report on racist messages sent from judge's phone, NAACP files complaint with Supreme Court

 

[IM2]

Joint Economic Committee Vice Chair Releases Report On The Economic Status Of Black Americans
By Black Economic Alliance | February 15, 2020

Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Vice Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, released a new report examining recent economic progress and remaining challenges facing the Black community in America.

“The data captured in this report show significant changes affecting African Americans which include both progress and areas where significant disparities remain,” said Beyer. “In the latter category, the unemployment rate for Blacks is almost twice what it is for Whites, which is unacceptable. Closing persistent, and in some cases, growing gaps between the economic experiences of White Americans and Black Americans is vital to helping our society overcome its history of racial discrimination.”

The report shows that Black Americans have made substantial progress, for example:

• Black college graduation rates more than doubled from 1990 to 2018.
• By 2017, the share of Black women enrolled in college exceeded the share of White men enrolled.
• Incarceration rates for Black Americans fell by nearly one-third between 2007 and 2017.
• The gap in life expectancy between non-Hispanic Blacks and Whites decreased between 2006-2010, though progress since has stalled.

Yet glaring inequities persist:

• The Black unemployment rate remains twice as high as the White unemployment rate (6.0 percent vs 3.1 percent in January 2020).
• The median net worth for White families is nearly 10 times greater than for Black families.
• Black households earned just 59 cents for every dollar White households earned in 2018.
• Fewer than half of Black families own their home compared to nearly three-fourths of White families.

Joint Economic Committee Vice Chair Releases Report On The Economic Status Of Black Americans - Black Economic Alliance

 

[Dale Smith]

Joint Economic Committee Vice Chair Releases Report On The Economic Status Of Black Americans
By Black Economic Alliance | February 15, 2020

Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Vice Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, released a new report examining recent economic progress and remaining challenges facing the Black community in America.

“The data captured in this report show significant changes affecting African Americans which include both progress and areas where significant disparities remain,” said Beyer. “In the latter category, the unemployment rate for Blacks is almost twice what it is for Whites, which is unacceptable. Closing persistent, and in some cases, growing gaps between the economic experiences of White Americans and Black Americans is vital to helping our society overcome its history of racial discrimination.”

The report shows that Black Americans have made substantial progress, for example:

• Black college graduation rates more than doubled from 1990 to 2018.
• By 2017, the share of Black women enrolled in college exceeded the share of White men enrolled.
• Incarceration rates for Black Americans fell by nearly one-third between 2007 and 2017.
• The gap in life expectancy between non-Hispanic Blacks and Whites decreased between 2006-2010, though progress since has stalled.

Yet glaring inequities persist:

• The Black unemployment rate remains twice as high as the White unemployment rate (6.0 percent vs 3.1 percent in January 2020).
• The median net worth for White families is nearly 10 times greater than for Black families.
• Black households earned just 59 cents for every dollar White households earned in 2018.
• Fewer than half of Black families own their home compared to nearly three-fourths of White families.

Joint Economic Committee Vice Chair Releases Report On The Economic Status Of Black Americans - Black Economic Alliance

Sob, sob....sniffle, sniffle...………….

 

[IM2]

The Economic State of Black America 2020
Feb 14 2020

WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Vice Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, today released a new report examining recent economic progress and remaining challenges facing the Black community in America.

“The data captured in this report show significant changes affecting African Americans which include both progress and areas where significant disparities remain,” said Beyer. “In the latter category, the unemployment rate for Blacks is almost twice what it is for Whites, which is unacceptable. Closing persistent, and in some cases, growing gaps between the economic experiences of White Americans and Black Americans is vital to helping our society overcome its history of racial discrimination.”

The report shows that Black Americans have made substantial progress, for example:

• Black college graduation rates more than doubled from 1990 to 2018.
• By 2017, the share of Black women enrolled in college exceeded the share of White men enrolled.
• Incarceration rates for Black Americans fell by nearly one-third between 2007 and 2017.
• The gap in life expectancy between non-Hispanic Blacks and Whites decreased between 2006-2010, though progress since has stalled.

Yet glaring inequities persist:

• The Black unemployment rate remains twice as high as the White unemployment rate (6.0 percent vs 3.1 percent in January 2020).
• The median net worth for White families is nearly 10 times greater than for Black families.
• Black households earned just 59 cents for every dollar White households earned in 2018.
• Fewer than half of Black families own their home compared to nearly three-fourths of White families.

Congressman Beyer is currently serving his third term in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Northern Virginia suburbs of the nation’s capital. In addition to his role as Vice Chair of the JEC, Beyer serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means and the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

The Economic State of Black America in 2020
Feb 14 2020

Two Years of Evidence Show 2017 Tax Cuts Failed to Deliver Promised Economic Boost
Updated 1/28/2020
Jan 28 2020
In December 2017, just days before President Donald Trump signed the $1.9 trillion tax legislation that would create sweeping changes to the U.S. federal tax system, he told television viewers that “it’s going to be one of the great Christmas gifts to middle-income people.”

For several months, the president had been selling the legislation on the claim that the tax cuts would “be rocket fuel for our economy.” His claim was critical to defending against the criticism that most of the tax cuts would go to corporations and the very wealthy—supposedly, the money would ‘trickle down’ to the middle class. Unfortunately, nearly two years of evidence show that his administration's estimates were wildly wrong.

The State of Economic Progress for Black Americans
Jan 17 2020
The March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, was formally named the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Dr. King later organized the Poor People’s Campaign as a multi-racial movement for economic justice, which advocated for living wages, income support for the unemployed, improved funding for education, the right to unionize for agricultural workers and access to land and capital. Dr. King’s legacy includes his efforts to secure both civil rights and economic justice.

More than a half-century after Dr. King’s death, important progress has been made, but for Black Americans much of the economic inequality that he fought against remains.

Read the Report

 

[IM2]

I find it funny how whites here are complaining about their issues and none of them pull the childish shit I have to see. I think it's time something gets done about that. So I'm reporting all off topic trolling. Every time.

 

[Lastamender]

The more you guys run your mouths trying to deny it, the more it happens.

After WBRZ report on racist messages sent from judge's phone, NAACP files complaint with Supreme Court

The NAACP filed a complaint with the Louisiana Supreme Court after WBRZ reported on a string of racist text messages sent from the phone of an area district judge.

WBRZ was first to report on the messages and allegations of an affair involving the judge and a sheriff’s deputy.

Last week, Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon said the racist text messages were sent to a deputy from a phone belonging to embattled 23rd Judicial District Judge Jessie Leblanc.

Falcon said the deputy, Bruce Prejean, received the messages in December of 2018 which refer to another deputy as a "dirty cop, thug, and a [racist expletive]." The sheriff also said the text messages refer to Judge Alvin Turner's law clerk, Brianne Sterling as a [expletive]."

WBRZ has made an editorial decision to not directly quote the word - an offensive word beginning with an "N."

Prejean admitted to a lengthy intimate relationship with the judge last month. Leblanc presided over cases he was involved in during the alleged affair, so the district attorney sent notices to hundreds of people to alert them of the possible conflict.

District Attorney Ricky Babin said letters will now be going out to every single defendant who has ever appeared before Judge Jessie Leblanc beginning in 2012, when she was first sworn in, until now. The defendants and their attorneys will be notified of the racist language she allegedly used. Judge Leblanc presides over cases for things as minor as a traffic ticket all the way up to a murder charge.

Monday, the NAACP said it was filing a complaint with the state’s highest court over the text messages.

After WBRZ report on racist messages sent from judge's phone, NAACP files complaint with Supreme Court

The NAACP

Isn't that one of the groups that keeps Blacks on the Democratic plantation?

 

[IM2]

The more you guys run your mouths trying to deny it, the more it happens.

After WBRZ report on racist messages sent from judge's phone, NAACP files complaint with Supreme Court

The NAACP filed a complaint with the Louisiana Supreme Court after WBRZ reported on a string of racist text messages sent from the phone of an area district judge.

WBRZ was first to report on the messages and allegations of an affair involving the judge and a sheriff’s deputy.

Last week, Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon said the racist text messages were sent to a deputy from a phone belonging to embattled 23rd Judicial District Judge Jessie Leblanc.

Falcon said the deputy, Bruce Prejean, received the messages in December of 2018 which refer to another deputy as a "dirty cop, thug, and a [racist expletive]." The sheriff also said the text messages refer to Judge Alvin Turner's law clerk, Brianne Sterling as a [expletive]."

WBRZ has made an editorial decision to not directly quote the word - an offensive word beginning with an "N."

Prejean admitted to a lengthy intimate relationship with the judge last month. Leblanc presided over cases he was involved in during the alleged affair, so the district attorney sent notices to hundreds of people to alert them of the possible conflict.

District Attorney Ricky Babin said letters will now be going out to every single defendant who has ever appeared before Judge Jessie Leblanc beginning in 2012, when she was first sworn in, until now. The defendants and their attorneys will be notified of the racist language she allegedly used. Judge Leblanc presides over cases for things as minor as a traffic ticket all the way up to a murder charge.

Monday, the NAACP said it was filing a complaint with the state’s highest court over the text messages.

After WBRZ report on racist messages sent from judge's phone, NAACP files complaint with Supreme Court

The NAACP

Isn't that one of the groups that keeps Blacks on the Democratic plantation?

There is no such place.

 

[IM2]

Blacks, Conservatives and Plantations

By Charles M. Blow

Why do Republicans keep endorsing the most extreme and hyperbolic African-American voices — those intent on comparing blacks who support the Democratic candidates to slaves? That idea, which only a black person could invoke without being castigated for the flagrant racial overtones, is a trope to which an increasingly homogeneous Republican Party seems to subscribe.

The most recent example of this is E.W. Jackson, who last weekend became the Virginia Republicans’ candidate for lieutenant governor in the state.

In a video posted to YouTube in 2012 titled “Bishop E.W. Jackson Message to Black Christians,” Jackson says:

“It is time to end the slavish devotion to the Democrat party. They have insulted us, used us and manipulated us. They have saturated the black community with ridiculous lies: ‘Unless we support the Democrat party, we will be returned to slavery. We will be robbed of voting rights. The Martin Luther King holiday will be repealed.’ They think we’re stupid and these lies will hold us captive while they violate everything we believe as Christians.”

He continues:

“Shame on us for allowing ourselves to be sold to the highest bidder. We belong to God. Our ancestors were sold against their will centuries ago, but we’re going to the slave market voluntarily today. Yes, it’s just that ugly.”

(Jackson also took swipes at the gay community and compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan.)

The Democrat Plantation theology goes something like this: Democrats use the government to addict and incapacitate blacks by giving them free things — welfare, food stamps and the like. This renders blacks dependent on and beholden to that government and the Democratic Party.

Unfortunately, the runaway slave image among many black Republican politicians is becoming ingrained and conservative audiences are applauding them for it.

Herman Cain, for example, built an entire presidential campaign on slave imagery.

C. Mason Weaver, a radio talk show host, failed Republican Congressional candidate from California and author of the book “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation,” said of President Obama at a 2009 Tea Party rally in Washington: “You thought he was saying was ‘hope and change’; he was saying was ‘ropes and chains,’ not ‘hope and change.’ ” Weaver continued: “Decide today if you’re going to be free or slaves. Decide today if you’re going to be a slave to your master or the master of your own destiny.” Weaver would repeat the “rope and chains” line on Fox and Friends that year.

Runaway Slave,” in which he says that America should “run away from socialism, run from statism, run away from progressivism.”

While these politicians accuse the vast majority of African-Americans of being mindless drones of the Democrats, they are skating dangerously close to — if not beyond — the point where they become conservative caricatures.

The implication that most African-Americans can’t be discerning, that they can’t weigh the pros and cons of political parties and make informed decisions, that they are rendered servile in exchange for social services, is the highest level of insult. And black politicians are the ones Republicans are cheering on as they deliver it.

Now who, exactly, is being used here?

Opinion | Blacks, Conservatives and Plantations

 

[IM2]

In conservative echo chambers, I often come across these two talking points:

The Democratic Plantation: African Americans have no agency of their own and have essentially capitulated themselves to the Democratic party and big government in exchange for "free stuff."

The "Two Party Switch" Didn't Happen: This is used to paint the present-day Democratic party as the true party of racism and slavery.

Conservative think tanks like PragerU and right-leaning mouthpieces like Dinesh D'Souza, Jesse Lee Peterson, and Candace Owens often take the moral high ground and push the "Democratic Plantation" narrative in an attempt to coax African Americans away from the shackles of liberalism and into the welcoming arms of conservatism. It's difficult reconciling the notion that conservatives stand for minority issues with the values, policies, and messages espoused by many members of the GOP which often alienate minorities.

In short, who the hell do you conservatives think you are fooling?

 

[IM2]

Now let's continue with the cold hard truth.

The Economic State of Black America in 2020

KEY POINTS  Despite significant economic progress over the past decades, Black Americans experience far worse economic conditions than Whites or the population as a whole. 

Historically, the unemployment rate for Black Americans has been approximately twice the rate for Whites. That is the case today—6.0% for Black workers and 3.1% for Whites.

The difference in the unemployment rates for Blacks and Whites shrinks for college graduates; however, even in the current strong economy the unemployment rate is 50% higher for Black Americans. 

During the majority of the past 50 years, Black Americans have experienced unemployment rates that, were they experienced by the entire population, would be seen as recessionary. 

Black workers have been disproportionally hurt by the overall decline in union membership and the decreasing power of unions.

The typical Black households earns a fraction of White households—just 59 cents for every dollar. The gap between Black and White annual household incomes is about $29,000 per year. 

Black Americans are over twice as likely to live in poverty as White Americans. 

Black children are three times as likely to live in poverty as White children. 

The median wealth of Black families ($17,000)—is less than one-tenth that of White families ($171,000). 

The wealth gap between Black and White households increases with education. 

Much less than half (42%) of Black families own their homes, compared to almost three-quarters (73%) of White families. 

High school graduation rates for Black and White Americans have nearly converged. 

The share of Blacks who are college graduates has more than doubled since 1990, from 11% to 25%—but still lags far behind Whites. 

Persistent segregation leads to large disparities in the quality of secondary education, leading to worse economic outcomes. 

The incarceration rate for Black Americans is falling, but is still nearly six times the rate for White Americans.

Non-Hispanic Black Americans have a life expectancy 3.6 years lower than non Hispanic White Americans.

Reports - United States Joint Economic Committee

 

[IM2]

The Economic State of Black America in 2020

EMPLOYMENT
The unemployment rate for Black Americans is much higher than for Whites. The U.S. economy provides Black Americans with far fewer opportunities for stable, well paying employment than their White counterparts. Over the past 50 years, the unemployment rate for Blacks consistently has been approximately twice that of Whites. Although President Trump in his recent State of the Union Address heralded the fact the Black unemployment rate had dropped to 6% in January 2020, it still is almost twice the White unemployment rate of 3.1%.

The spread between White and Black unemployment increases when overall unemployment rises and decreases when it falls. In 1983, when Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker pushed through very large increases in interest rates to combat inflation, Black unemployment skyrocketed to 21.2%, more than twice White unemployment.

Often, even in a strong economy, the labor market for Black Americans is what White Americans experience during a recession. In general, African Americans benefit when the economy improves, but when it sputters, they are the first to be fired. For this reason, policies that help support a strong economy close to full employment are particularly beneficial for Black Americans and help reduce racial disparities. Racial disparities in unemployment rates exist at every education level. The largest gaps in unemployment exist between Black and White workers without a college education. The average unemployment rate in 2019 for Black workers with just a high school education was 8.5%, more than twice the 3.9% rate for similarly educated White workers.

Unemployment rates for both Blacks and Whites with at least a bachelor’s degree were much lower, two percent for Whites and three percent for Blacks—50% higher.

A smaller share of Black Americans are in the labor force. The current economic expansion, which began in 2009 under President Obama and is the longest on record, has helped increase the share of Black Americans in the labor force. As the labor market has tightened over the past several years, the difference between labor force participation rates for Blacks (62.6%) and Whites (63.4%) has almost disappeared. This undermines the persistent stereotype that Blacks are less inclined to seek work than Whites, suggesting instead that they have fewer opportunities to seek employment when the economy is not operating at its peak.

Black women and men have traditionally had labor force participation rates that are much similar than those of White women and men, reflecting a more gender-equitable division of labor both within and outside the home. This in part may be due to difficult labor market conditions and discrimination against Black men, which makes Black women’s participation critical to their families. The labor force participation rates of Black women and men were 63.3% and 67.6% in January 2020, compared to 58.3% and 72% for White women and men.

Discrimination and occupational segregation are significant causes of racial disparities. Field experiments have shown that resumes with typically “Black sounding” names received significantly fewer callbacks for job interviews than those with “White sounding” names, even when candidates had identical qualifications. A meta-analysis of these experiments has shown almost no change in the level of hiring discrimination among Blacks over the past 25 years. There also is evidence of Black employment being concentrated in occupations that have a higher risk of unemployment, often because of automation. Black workers also are at higher risk of being the first fired in the event of an economic downturn.

Reports - United States Joint Economic Committee

 

[Lastamender]

QUOTE]Often, even in a strong economy, the labor market for Black Americans is what White Americans experience during a recession. In general, African Americans benefit when the economy improves, but when it sputters, they are the first to be fired.[/QUOTE]
That needs to be backed with statistics. I see none in your post.
And all that crap you posted is from
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS (where your link goes)
It is all designed to pander to Blacks. They sure saw you coming.

 

[IM2]

QUOTE]Often, even in a strong economy, the labor market for Black Americans is what White Americans experience during a recession. In general, African Americans benefit when the economy improves, but when it sputters, they are the first to be fired.

That needs to be backed with statistics. I see none in your post.
And all that crap you posted is from
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS (where your link goes)
It is all designed to pander to Blacks. They sure saw you coming.[/QUOTE]
You read a report from the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee. All you need to do is download or open the pdf file and read the full report for yourself. Now just because your white ass doesn't want to believe something doesn't mean I'm going to look it up for you. I provided the links, you go read the facts.

The facts don't pander saltine. Learn that.

 

[IM2]

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The stone cold truth is hard for the white racist. Because it destroys the belief in their inherent superiority. So when that is challenged, they must lash out. And when they do, you come to understand that whites who practice racism do so because they are minor league insecure losers.

This is how it's going to be racists. You can work to end racism or we will go the distance. There is no other choice that you will be given. Whining about a racism that isn't in existence is not going to stop the consistent revealing of the stone cold truth. So you can keep crying or end the racism. And that's the bottom line because IM said so.

You've been saying so for the last 15 years that I know of. When do you spose it's gonna work.