Jobs Report Shows Surge in Black Unemployment
Although the overall jobless rate for America remained steady at 8.2 percent, the jobless rate for African Americans rose almost a full percentage point.
This from CNN:
The unemployment rate for blacks rose to 14.4% from 13.6% in May, the Labor Department reported Friday. That’s a sharp contrast to the white unemployment rate, which stayed put at 7.4%, and the Hispanic rate, which held at 11%.
This trend is not a new one, as the black unemployment rate has been roughly double that of whites since the government started tracking the figures in 1972.
Blacks are suffering worse than Hispanics and whites in the job market, and still, no plan to fix it.
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Black people have always needed the Gov to level the playing field yet this Obama administration has choosen to operated as if the playing field is already level. Never mind all the evidence to the contrary which show deep divisions in fair treatment, consideration, assets and the like thoughout this society. Obama is much more concern about his image as seen by White people than his ability to help Black people.
Correct, moptop. It is very disappointing to read these unemployment numbers among black americans while our president ignores his largest constituency. Institutional racism is very real despite the gains of 50 years after the civil rights movement.
It is so much easier to blame and look for scapegoats. I am black, but I am also an immigrant. I grew up in the US, but I can see a big difference between me and today’s African Americans. African Americans are so focused on racism, they have learned to be helpless, whiny, and needy. Black Americans are always looking for the government to do everything without thinking of the taxes that are needed to take care of those things. I teach many Hispanics who are focused on having their own businesses and helping other Hispanics. African Americans need to start doing that again.
Watch your mouth, African immigrant. If it weren’t for AFRICAN AMERICANS, your tired, ungrateful, arrogant behind would not have civil rights and freedoms you enjoy today. I noticed you didn’t name which third world countryin Africa you came from. Watch it troll. Africans like you make me sick. Heck, I bet you’re African ancestors sold my ancestors into slavery due to you’re ridiculous tribalism. Anyways, watch your mouth AFRICAN immigrant.
Foolish troll.
You said a mouthful. I concur. Monique, you must be a house-ni_ _er. :-p Stupid Troll.
Monique, why are you in America( U S A) ? Why don’t you take your talents back to the motherland and help develop her? What do you know about racism? ” Black Americans are always looking for the government to do everything without thinking of the taxes needed to take care of those things.” What things?
You are not an African, you are a wing-nut troll. Why would any hard working African waste their time here talking bad about black people in America?
Exactly Joseph. thanks for your post.
Monique,
Those same whiney, helpless, weak Black folk opened the doors for black immigrants such as yourself could even come to this country. These same weak people knocked down those walls of racialism and american-style apartheid so that YOU
can be all that you can be so to speak. Read the 2010 US Census summary reports on the Black population to see the record number of Black Businesses, the record numbers of Black students attending and graduating from colleges,etc.
Finally, I am a proud native-born Black American who spent 28yrs in the US military, put a daugther through college and graduate school and who is proud to say that I haved traveled among the remarkable peoples among the peoples of Africa and the Carribbean
This troll monique is such a fool. both you and joesph tom the world righty off my keyboard. Which ever third world country this troll claims to be from, she needs to go back and enjoy the freedoms their. Oh wait….she can’t.
a few thing have create this for blacks…the first land occupation that the white man control because with out land you can not create real sustainabl land jobs like growning all kinds of foods to raising all kind of animal farms mainly thing we eat and yes i love chicken and fruits and vegetable, two the white man have allway and i think will allways try to stop us as blacks and this have always been in place from the white presidents to the white senate to the white governor’s…..our selfs and this may-be the biggest of all…not will all black that they can invest…10 dollars a week you when you have spare money to invest then have the right people in place to do the investments the right way..we do not want to take the white man way…creating “money” dictator’s’ we want every one to have all most the same amount of money in the groups or a large portion of people with the same money in the group….keep the pay simple’ meaning let stay level with the rest of the world so our trade partner will get a almost fairer trade…..land first, farming second alone with build wate systems, alone with housing…..millitary….state wide police….and local police…flat rate tax system….wages 11 thousand dollars….with 1 thousand for tax’s and 500.00 for insurance….that comes up to12,500.00 for the every day worker now should polices make more a little more….doctor’s…lawers…control the rate some kind of way open talk on these things….actor’s and all these kind of people that gets money from a little bit of every body…..the stores that gets money from a large portion of people got to be work out’ not share holder get 10′s of million of dollar’s never that in our system that money go’s to general fund for if somethingf happen or building for the general public….schools…water system, food production if need……we do not want to build a rockefeller’ system…where one person controls all the wealth
they want you to see that a black man can not help you black people only the white “land owner” can help you nigers. this is what they want you to understand…you can have the president but if you don’t have land you don’t have any thing…..the farming system will create euff job for the hold of black america…growning and processing and packaging with refrigeration…we made our on muscian by buying their music……with the farm money that our mother and father made from farming
“”"black greed is the real problem”" the unorganization and personally of black america…they anit never got enuff to show each other….look at this bad anit it….they are going to have to get over this bullshyt and really get to work or really be destroy….and mixing the black skin with white skin is the fast genocide of it all
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if you black want say it i will the 30 of yale university skull and bonemen go look and see what they make they control the stel and oil and the land…..and they got people in congress like john forbes kerry to lie for them….bill and hillary clinton to lie to the blacks for them….and many others and they will try to bring you in to apart of the organization if they feel you are making to much money
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take michael jackson…..this is what they did to him..put him on tv and yes they control the news system’ put him on tv as a s*x predator and kept it their day after day week after week..right their you got blacks they want know the truth but if that white man tv say it they will believe it in 80 percent of the cases…..michael jackson started to build these kind of groups with other stars like whitney houston and bobby brown and many many more like jay-z, puff daddy, magic johnson, usher the one that bought out justin bieber, madonna, eddie muphy, they are the one that is a live the one thats just die like luther vandross, berry white, liz taylor, {{{apart of the michael jackson investment group}}}
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{the whitney is one of the private family have you hear of whitney and pratt….Pratt & Whitney is a U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Pratt & Whitney’s aircraft engines…….Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) is an English-American investment bank and securities firm…..{look at harriman}
{brown is a banking system that george herbert walker bush father got invested in with the} then you got the {rockefeller} and the {mellon}..but they are worthless with out the control africa and south america…..now you got the walkers thats the other side of the bush family…..these are gangers and killer it what they do….they do not plat fair at all…they make thing look like what they want it to look like with the news media…
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{{{{{{back in the mid 90′s i was look on the internet and i put in michael jackson the billionaire and i came across alot of imformation about michael jackson like he had strong investment in The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) (NYSE: UNP), headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States and he took that investment to zimbabwe to work with robert mugabe on a lot of things….{{{you got to go to youtube see robert mugabe}}} and the web site talk about michael jackson having “cement companies” and a wide range of things….we all know about sony and how he took over alot of that company with music and they are trying to destroy that….and sony make the best products of all of them
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and now you can not fine any of this imformation who wipe it clean and why…..the unorganization and personally of black america…they anit never got enuff to show each other….look at this bad anit it….they are going to have to get over this bullshyt and really get to work or really be destroy….and mixing the black skin with white skin is the fast genocide of it all
African-Americans need to stay in school and work towards the degree that pays. Some don’t complete highschool and most have stopped going on towards a higher degree.
Get into a historic black college and work towards higher learning. Most entry level positions now require a certificate or diploma of higher education. We are falling behind as a race.
Wow Monique, your comments are a bit irresponsible; however, I don’t totally disagree with you because there are a large number of African-American that are “helpless, whiny and needy, but they are the minority. The majority of African-Americans are hardworking, independent and capable. The interesting thing that I’ve found is that the ones you are referring to rarely complain because they’re comfortable in their situation, and believe it or not most don’t want anything better or different. onmyway2012,Josep and william “Rick” Collins came down on you pretty hard but I have a question for them because they all seem to be complaining about what the President and the Government isn’t doing for African-Americans to bring down the unemployment rate. I would like to know from one or all of them what do they think the President or Government should or could do to bring down the high unemployment rate among African-Americans? He presented a “jobs bill” to Congress that way stopped cold, He’s been trying to raise taxes on the very rich and he can’t get that done; this Administration has deported 30% more illegal immigrants than any previous Administration. African-American unemployment has always been close to double that of Whites since they started keeping count. What is it about this President (other than he’s Black) that’s different from the other 43 before him?
James
I’d like a shot at responding to your questions on what can Obama do to decrease Black unemployment. First lets remember he had a majority in congress for 2 years until the mid term elections. Where was his call for a jobs bill when the opportunity to get it was available? Only after he lost his dem majority did he play up his political show piece a watered down jobs bill that he knew was certain to fail. Lets not forget he bargin with the GOP to keep the Bush tax cuts in place for a meager extension of unemployment benefits and by the way very few Black people got unemployment benefits because you had to have been working. The 99% didn’t qualify for any extension of benefits.
Ok lets see what he could do now. 1st he could give a prime time speech sighting the urgency of putting people back to work. Hype it up just like they do when they want to go to war.
Next he could put in place a force reduction and order troops home which would place further demands on Congress to get vets back into the work force not to mention the money it would save. 3rd he could Threaten to veto all bills including emergency bills unless a jobs bill was in place first. Next by executive order he could for 90 days order all federal departments to hire temps. This last act would certainly push out a jobs bill. By the way it is a lawful act and the Congress or judicial branch must allow it though for those 90 days if the president choose to use his emergency powers
moptop
First of all I can appreciate you taking the time to at least attempt to answer my questions but quite frankly the things you cited are a bit unrealistic, and here’s why. Look back at the first two years and prioritize the events. The stimulus, natural disasters, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing this country bringing this country back from the brink of a total economic collapse, healthcare for “all Americans”. “The bargain he made with the GOP”? You sound as if Blacks all of a sudden started losing jobs and quit working when he became President. It was because of the President and only because of the President that unemployment benefits were extended at all, so that argument doesn’t hold water. “primetime speech sighting the urgency of putting people back to work”. First of all, what would that accomplish if nothing could be done? Secondly, every time the President speaks he’s talking about jobs and putting people back to work. I don’t know about you but I’m tired of empty promises when I know nothing can be done. “threaten to veto all bills including emergency bills unless a jobs bill was in place first”. So in other words do what the Republicans are doing which will continue slow or block any economic recovery. “next by executive order he could for 90 days order all federal departments to hire employees”. First of all, where will the money come from to pay these employees, secondly, should these people just be Black? What jobs will they do and what happens after 90 days? Doesn’t make any sense; totally unrealistic. “the last act would certainly push out a jobs bill”. You need to rethink all of this because two things; they’re all totally unrealistic and would never happen even if the President wanted it to happen, and secondly they didn’t answer my questions. Let’s be real for a moment. The President can’t get anything through Congress that benefits “all Americans”, so what chance do you think that anything directly affecting or benefiting African-Americans will get through? The biggest problem I have with the Presidents critics is that they somehow expect him to do the impossible.
I see it Elizabeth’s way.
We can create our own jobs!
Check it, immigrants take the least paying jobs and they stick together and pool their money together until they can afford the bigger prizes: house, car, education, hiring their children and sending then off for higher education etc.
Many have psychologically poisoned their minds by saying that they cannot do this nor that when the fact is they might not have even tried!
Stop the blame game, unemployment is unemployment.
Not black, not African American, not presidential.
Monique raised valid points, those of you who saw her as being anti-African American, missed the whole point.
Immigrants come to America with a whole different mindset, to do better than where they come from.
Not thinking because one is born here that they are entitled to lay back, chill and have everything handed to them on a silver or gold platter.
Often, professional immigrants come here and are set back due to the laws around education and they end up taking demeaning jobs until they pay money to be re-educated in their field and prove their ability to speak, read and write English.
Third paragraph correction: “sending them off for higher education”.
BLACK PEOPLE WILL NOT TRULY BE ON AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD WHEN IT COMES TO UNEMPLOYMEN FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER 400 YEARS. YEAH YAEAH YEAH THERE ARE ALWAYS THE FEW EXCEPTIONS THE 2% OF BLACK FOLKS WHICH INCLUDE ENTERTAINERS, ATHLETES, ACTORS AND FEW SELCE BUINESS OWNERS BUT BLACK FOLKS BETTER GET REAL AND START SUPPORING EACH OTHER WHICH IS THE ONLY WAY TO FINACIALLY SECURITY AS A WHOLE. MAKING US LESS DEPENDEN ON MASSA TO CREATE OPPORTUNIES, SEEN?
The high black unemployment rate is truly disturbing, however, it is foolish to solely think President Obama can correct something that goes back several administrations. It is also foolish to think that the President of the United States, while a black man, would be able to solely focus on the issues of the black community (which is not monolithic in values, needs, culture, economics, education, etc) and not on the pressing needs of the country that faced him before he was even in office. Yes, he did have a majority when he came into office, but he also had an economic recession and obstructionist republicans.
What do WE do about this? I, along with other forward thinking blacks have determined to spend our dollars with other black businesses, something we can humbly learn from our immigrant brethren (and I am descended from West Indians). Yes, American born blacks have had a history of some really awful things happen to us in this country, however, I dare any of us to trade places with our African born blacks who have had to deal with the deadly enemy that looks like them – genocide? gang rape of little girls? murder of entire villages? Get real, stop complaining, stop feeding the consumerism animal ($200 shoes? that could have paid for a course at a community college, funded a book scholarship for a college student, purchased a domain name and website along with ordering business cards for a new business, if spread to just 10 businesses, it could have given a cash boost if everyone in line who bought those shoes did a “cash mob” at a local black business that is employing black people.
We have it within our hands to correct this, but to be honest, we must correct some things in our own house first.
Yes, he did have a majority when he came into office, but he also had an economic recession and obstructionist republicans.
Cut the bull Smith. Congress passes Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package. Unemployment subsequently increased because Obama rushed this misguided package thru Congress to focus his attention on healthcare. In other words this president ignored cancer (the economy) to focus on a headache (health insurance reform). That’s brilliant!!!!
Per the virtually worthless U3 the Afrikan American unemployment rate which was 12.5 percent when Obama was sworn in; climbed to a high of 16.7 percent; decreased for several months, and now is rising again.
Of course, all of that is the fault of George W. Bush and the obstructionist republicans. Obama’s incompetence has nothing to do with it.
In American politics loyal constituents are supposed to be rewarded for their support, but the most critical issue facing Afrikan Americans goes unaddressed. When will Afrikan Americans learn that blind loyalty pays no dividends beyond symbolism.
Well said moptop!!
WOW Antona Brent Smith your comment is right-on-time i only wish my grandkids could read your comment because you are laying it on the line. All blacks need to read your comment those that sat back and blame Obama for ignores racism, black on black crimes, not coming to the black community and make their lives better. It is so idiot to think this man (Obama) can really do all these thing when he is the president of the United States, not any black community.
I totally agree with moptop in that the trend by whites & some blacks who have made it is we as African Americans dont need help any more. Now as for our brother mr. Obama he does seem to be much more concerned about his image as seen by White people/historians than his ability to help the common everyday regular hard working class & poor n struggling Black people of this nation maybe that may change we must continue to have both. End