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Do about what? So you blame Viacom for the problems in the black community? LOL! Hey. I've got a great idea. Let's resurrect LBJ. He'd know what to do.
How can you blame one company for something that has been ingrain into the psyche of this country since it's inception? Viacom is making money off of the ignorance that it is propogating, nothing more and nothing less. BET is not watched at all in my household
BET Founder: ‘This Country Would Never Tolerate White Unemployment at 14 or 15 Percent’
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Originally Posted by EdwardA
It's a serious problem for the reasons Robert Johnson alludes to. I have made similar points on this board the inability of Blacks to compete in the 21st century economy will exact a tremendous cost on the country and will exasperate divisions.
Well Blacks voted for Obama to the tune of 95%+ so must not be a big deal to them.
If Johnson wants to blame somebody for the current unemployment rate among blacks, he can start with President Hoover, who signed the Davis-Bacon Act in 1931, which instantaneously resulted is skyrocketing unemployment rates for blacks due to the federal-mandated wage levels it introduced into the marketplace---call it a 'super' minimum wage law, as Walter E. Williams does in his most recent column.
Williams astutely pointed out the fact that blacks not only had lower rates of unemployment, endured shorter periods of unemployment than whites did, but also enjoyed higher labor participation rate for the first half of the 20th century.
As early as the year 1900, the black unemployment time frame averaged 15% shorter than for whites, as opposed to being 30% longer today.
Then Mr. Johnson can explain why he, Maxine Waters, John Dingell, John Conyers, Charlie Rangel, Edolphus Towns, Jr. and hordes of other black Democrats ludicrously continue to fanatically support labor laws pushed by labor unions and their white liberal organization disciples, and all 'to the detriment of their constituents', as Walters points out.
Their blind insistence that increasing the minimum wage law will help blacks get jobs is also ficition, yet our President continues to do so.
Here is something that you might be interested in, black unemployment was and has been higher than white's BEFORE the founder Bob Johnson was even born. With that being said, how in the hell would it make a difference now anyway since he no longer owns it?
But you did make a point rather you know it or not by saying that the current owners of BET can make a difference in it's programing but choose not to.
Here is another question for you, why are educated blacks lacking brhind white educated men and women? If they are both educated would'nt their unemployment numbers be similiar
Since high black unemployment is nothing new, where the hell do they get off with saying something stupid like 'this country would never tolerate high white unemployment'?
I think we know the answer to your last question. AA. Pass the black person no matter what.
You still don't get it, why would the whites that own BET want to fling the "race card"? their goal is to keep blacks and anyone else who watches that ignorant crap to keep making them money
YOU still do not get it. It was THE FOUNDER of BET who made the remark. Not VIACOM. Stop blaming whitey for a change.
What you just posted is just a graph of what I said earlier, that black unemployment has always been higher than whites no matter how far back that you go in American history. So again how is that playing the race card?
How can you blame one company for something that has been ingrain into the psyche of this country since it's inception? Viacom is making money off of the ignorance that it is propogating, nothing more and nothing less. BET is not watched at all in my household
What is wrong with some of you here?
Here is a pic of the man who made the remark. Now here is the real hardpart. What damn color is he? Incredible!
You all have discussions without looking at the facts.
Black people at every level of education have much higher rates than white Americans with the same level of education.
In the last 41 years, the lowest measured black unemployment rate was 7.0%.
Black Americans in 2012 who had a 2 year degree had a much higher unemployment rate 10.2% than white high school graduates 7.5%.
Across the board, there is systematic racial discrimination against black Americans in favor of white Americans. You can't get these disparities without massive amounts of discrimination.
I know the racist narrative is that something is wrong with the black race, but this is a false choice.
Why should black high school graduates have an unemployment rate of 13.4%, nearly twice that of white high school graduates 7.5%?
This is sick and it is ignored.
Only one problem with your narrative. It aint true.
If you look at Census Data from 1900 to 1960 you will see black unemployent was the same and sometimes lower than white unemployment. Are you saying white employers were less racist in 1900 than in 2000? lols.
Blacks have higher rates of unemployment for 3 reasons: minimum wage laws, labor unions, liberal run school systems. Period.
In today's world Hispanic-whites are being favored over non-hispanic whites in hiring practices because of language issues to pander to illegal aliens. I don't see any tears being shed for them by the non-hispanic white haters in here (you know who you are). Oops, I forgot non-hispanic whites are ok if they are liberals but not conservatives.
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BET Founder: ‘This Country Would Never Tolerate White Unemployment at 14 or 15 Percent’
