"The latest unemployment numbers are great if you’re not black"

[Jamaal510]

More: http://thegrio.com/2015/03/07/latest-unemployment-numbers-blacks-african-american/

50 years since the march from Selma to Montgomery, we are reminded that institutional racism, racial disparities in wages and wealth, and discrimination based on color are still a harsh reality of American life. And we have a long way to go.
The latest jobs figures released by the Labor Department for February were positive, even better than expected, with 295,000 workers added last month. The official unemployment rate — which is artificially low, failing to account for people who are not actively looking for a job, the underemployed, and all those college graduates flipping burgers – dropped to 5.5 percent, down from 5.7 percent in January and the lowest since the middle of 2008. However, wages were sluggish, rising a mere 0.1 percent.

For blacks, the economic picture is quite different. While the unemployment rate for whites was 4.7 percent, it was 10.4 percent for blacks, 6.6 percent for Latinos, and 4.0 percent for Asians. Traditionally, in fact, for the past six decades, black unemployment has remained double that of whites. This racial gap tends to be higher in the Midwest and the South.

[Number23]

1. But it's not race, it's CLASS!!1one!

50 years since the march from Selma to Montgomery, we are reminded that institutional racism, racial disparities in wages and wealth, and discrimination based on color are still a harsh reality of American life.

[Jamaal510]

2. I might've been

bombarded with those type of comments had I posted this in GD instead. It's a shame there's a need on this site for a separate sub-forum for issues like this.

[Number23]

7. Yep, it is most definitely a shame.

But it's still very much needed around here.

[ND-Dem]

6. I live in a 98% white town that still has 10% unemployment, 8 years after the recession

"ended".

That's a harsh reality of american life too.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. "It's that Negro in the White House's Fault!"

[randys1]

4. And he is responsible for all the race problems in America.

President Obama has been so divisive racially, Ferguson and Garner, etal, all his fault.





Back on earth, surely you dont expect white america to employ Black america when they can use 124 different ways to not hire you and get away with it.

Right to work, you know.

[heaven05]

5. +1000