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Ok, Mr. Third Grade Math. You have not answered the question. How are blacks overrepresented in the public sector?
Because 18% of public sector workers are black whereas they make up 13% of the population. It's not that complicated. Or is that racist? It should be more?
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Originally Posted by Lucario
Since you are so full of salient and interesting information, why don't you address it?
Because I don't want to address it. Best man for the job. If there's some evidence of discrimination being a direct cause of this then let me know. If not, then there's no problem.
Because 18% of public sector workers are black whereas they make up 13% of the population. It's not that complicated. Or is that racist? It should be more?
Oh. So that is a problem how?
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Because I don't want to address it. Best man for the job. If there's some evidence of discrimination being a direct cause of this then let me know. If not, then there's no problem.
How do you determine who is the best man (or woman? Hah!) for the job?
Look at it this way people. Would you support some kind of diversity quota if it actually demanded equal proportions? Because if that were the case, we'd have to fire all the extra black workers and replace them with white ones. You can't have it both ways.
Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC;20600040I"ll give you a hint: Black people are not the focus of transient statistics. [B
Not sure why you would focus on "black migration."[/b] Completely and wholly irrelevant to the challenge at hand. Keep up or move on.
I focused on the migration patterns of black people in America because you said that we move in droves to DC to get federal jobs! Duh!
You should not have said that if you did not want to single out "black people" and our supposed desire to take any and every federal job.
You should keep up with yourself. Don't talk about people moving to DC to find work, black people in particular if you don't want to accept the fact that DC is not the top place for black people to move to look for work. Simple as that. Sorry you cannot accept yourself to be wrong.
And I fully know what a transient is, I guess you do not since you are the one who brought up black people moving to DC more than any other location for federal jobs. Like I said before, even taking black people out of the picture, there are way more metro areas and larger cities that have a larger transient population than DC. The majority of people in Miami were not born in Miami. Other Southern cities are gaining ground on that. You have yet to prove anything you said so you should put, keep up or shut up.
This issue is by no means new. Remembering a want ad for more than a few jobs in a Calif. newspaper from the 1970's, it contained the following;
"Women and minorities are encouraged to apply"
So what does that say?
It says that since you pulled up a thread that is 6.5 years old to reference something 40 years old, you're living in the past.
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