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Lawrence Otis Graham mentioned how the white middle class has depended on corporate jobs. Could blacks have taken the same route? Hasn't discrimination in corporate America been too much of an issue for enough blacks to have relied on that route to the middle class?
A good portion of corporate jobs are based on "who you know" not necessarily "what you know." (this of course is true of all industries.) Considering the average person only socializes and "knows" people in their same class and ethnic group, it is pretty hard to get your foot in the door in corporate America, if you don't know other corporate people.
Considering the huge gains in educational attainment of African-Americans over the past 30-40 years, you would think the penetration is higher, but it isn't. Couple this with the fact that women, people of color etc, don't get into the senior leadership often, and hit the glass/whatever ceiling pretty quickly, is it a surprise?
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Originally Posted by eRayP
whites don't' get a fair share either, oh they get to work but their a big portion of their pay is taken away from them.
This is true for everyone, whether your check is from a public or private source.
For the record, I am black. My granddad and dad are republicans and generally vote that way. (My dad has made a few exceptions over the years, he voted for Clinton and Obama. In addition to the Bushes and Regan.)
This is a reason but the main reason is conservatives are so out of touch with blacks. All politics is, is running game. Republicans don't know how to game on blacks, democrats have it down to a science. Liberals play mind games with the poor and minorities and Conservatives play mind games with the wealthy. That's just how the game goes.
Probably true. Back in the day the 1st mayor Daley in Chicago filled up city hall with blacks as a form of patronage. It angered conservative whites like my parents,who had always supported him. Most were not qualified. Many could barely read and write.
I feel that way now about the many "bilingual" employees I encounter in hospitals or government buildings.... speaking more than one language and neither is English.
It is odd to see how Black America votes for the Democrats despite how they are treated by them. Obama did not even bother to go to the NAACP meeting, but had time to go to Hollywood and suck up big money from them. I would have to question the ability of Black America to understand how their status in the Democratic party really shakes out.
And if President Obama did go to to the NAACP convention the right wing media would have had a field day talking about how he was pandering to the Black vote.
In fact, anything the President Obama doess that is specifically targeted at Black Americans is going to red-meat for Fox News, Limbaugh and other right wing media sources as unfair favoritism toward Black Americans.
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