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Jobs are good, but are NOT EVERYTHING. Basic human dignity, respect and inclusion are also very important. It is the essence of obscene white privilege to make your statement.
So would you rather have a guy that flatters you but ultimately makes you a slave to welfare or a guy that gives tough love but you have a job that pays well?
Assuming the numbers are accurate, how, exactly, is this Trump's doing?
Seriously. What policy has he enacted that has specifically helped African Americans or Hispanics looking for work?
He has mostly focused on banning people from random nations, picking fights on Twitter, playing golf, hating on various minorities - including blacks and Hispanics, rubbing elbows with the Klan during the summer riots, and now passing a payday loan style tax scam that will simply kick the can down the road with empty promises of "getting your money now."
Not only is none of that something to be proud of, none of it also helps out minorities in search of work. So, whatever the cause may be, you have to be kidding yourself if emboldening right-wing bigotry, as Trump's victory and actions have done, is going to somehow help African Americans and Hispanics find work.
Really, the Trump worship is out of hand. We've got right-wingers to the point of giving Trump credit for the stock market recovery under Obama while at the same time pretending that the recovery never happened. This is just more of the same empty praise.
Reducing the importation of criminal aliens, competing for those very same jobs that black people could take, isn't helping black Americans? Enhancing the business environment and rolling back regulations that made it impossible for businesses to operate doesn't help black Americans? Doing away with trade deals that would have forced even more jobs overseas doesn't help black Americans?
The thing is-unlike Obama, Trump is working to make things better for ALL Americans. Blacks, whites, native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans. Unlike Democrats that worked to divide us and pandered only to certain groups.
Yes because living in poverty and being dependent on the government for handouts is so much better than working for a living.
There you go again! Just like your man child leader, you think that EVERY minority is POOR and lives in a dangerous neighborhood. It’s a very one-sided view without perspective about real people in this country who are members of a minority group, yet prosperous, no thanks to whitey.
I have never been employed 'thanks' to any president, so I don't know why I would be grateful to any of them for having a job that I've gotten due to my own experience and qualifications.
Personally, I had much better jobs under Obama than Bush, but it had nothing to do with them. I imagine most blacks and Hispanics don't give a crap about Trump or consider him responsible for their employment.
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The U.S. Labor Department reported Friday that the unemployment rate for African-Americans fell to 6.8 percent in December – the lowest rate since recordkeeping began in 1972. That’s an astounding drop from the 8.3 percent black unemployment rate in October 2016, just before Donald Trump was elected president."
"Hispanic unemployment was at a near-record low of 4.9 percent in December – down from 5.7 percent the month before the election of President Trump. Additionally, there were four months in 2017 in which the Hispanic seasonal unemployment fell below 5 percent – the only time that has occurred in a single year over the past 44 years."
I have never been employed 'thanks' to any president, so I don't know why I would be grateful to any of them for having a job that I've gotten due to my own experience and qualifications.
Personally, I had much better jobs under Obama than Bush, but it had nothing to do with them. I imagine most blacks and Hispanics don't give a crap about Trump or consider him responsible for their employment.
Jobs are good, but are NOT EVERYTHING. Basic human dignity, respect and inclusion are also very important. It is the essence of obscene white privilege to make your statement.
These was a long discussion here in Florida yesterday on the radio about jobs, jobs,jobs.
It's good they are using plural since the wages have gone up almost nothing at all and the pay is so low it is impossible to live on it. We speak to sales peoples, Uber drivers, etc - sale story....$8-12 an hour for hard work, at least two jobs needed and no benefits.
Please - talk to us when their net worth and long terms wages and job security goes through the roof. Blacks had full employment most of the years since they have been in the USA.....it's just the conditions and wages that presented the problems.
I have never been employed 'thanks' to any president, so I don't know why I would be grateful to any of them for having a job that I've gotten due to my own experience and qualifications.
Personally, I had much better jobs under Obama than Bush, but it had nothing to do with them. I imagine most blacks and Hispanics don't give a crap about Trump or consider him responsible for their employment.
Are you saying that better Orgasms, good sledding in the NE, Sunshine (but cold) here in Florida and the fact that the sun comes up in the morning isn't because of Trump?
Jobs are good, but are NOT EVERYTHING. Basic human dignity, respect and inclusion are also very important. It is the essence of obscene white privilege to make your statement.
Wallow in your self pity. The rest of us are doing just fine. What's it like to be a professional victim?
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