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How is it that young people are not trained to do a job interview? Whose fault is that? Parents, schools, churches, communities? Are they born having job seeking skills?
My DH hired hundreds during his career. And every kid in the neighborhood knew it. They asked him to do practice interviews so they'd become familiar with the process.
We mall walk every day due to the weather in my town. The mall stores are full of young brown people working. Most are polite opening doors for people, greeting with a smile and a good morning as they walk to their work space.
Bloomberg has a racist past that's impossible to sweep under the rug no matter how hard CNN and MSNBC try to shield him. It's just the facts. But I'm sure if the Democrats think he's their best chance to beat President Trump, his past actions have no relevancy.
Here's what you need to know about Bloomberg, and it is fact, not sentence fragments:
He's Trump with more money
He's Trump with a much more serious authoritarian streak (hello, bans on soda)
He's Trump with much longer experience using the political machinery to his own ends
He's Trump with a Napoleon complex
And, he's what Trump would be like if Trump had stayed a Democrat and the media liked him. Instead of an ego being hammered on relentlessly by countless haters, imagine Trump if the entire non-Hannity media stroked his ego constantly. Scary, huh? Yeah...that is Bloomberg.
My biggest historical thing that tells you all you need to know about how life under a President Bloomberg would be - the fact that he got the rule changed to be mayor of NYC for a third term, and then immediately after getting into office for that third term, he got the rule changed back to only two terms for anyone else. That's Latin American caudillo el Jefe stuff right there.
What everyone on the Left fears from Trump is a simple "hold my beer" opportunity for Bloomberg, but that "D" after his name buys a lot of media forgiveness and nuance. You don't become 8th richest person on the planet because you are used to compromise or sacrifice. You get there by steamrolling, curb stomping and otherwise eliminating any and all barriers to your success. Good for him being a success, but whatever you fear about Trump, just turn that knob to 11 and you arrive at Bloomberg. He's a walking assault on any notion of civil liberty.
Weren't Trump supporters the ones who claim the packaging doesn't matter, only the substance? Our main beef against Trump is how he constantly lies, breaks laws to his benefit and has no decency or loyalty to anyone but himself. But you're all happy for the wall, his crusade against non white immigrants, packing the courts etc. So now you listed a bunch of reasons to dislike Bloomberg because of the packaging.
You forgot to add he cares about climate change, gun control, immigration and a whole host of issues Democrats care about. Yeah, we don't really care about the packaging either when our candidate furthers our issues.
Bloomberg's words sound harsh, especially coming from a privileged white man, but I know what he is talking about.
People want minority youth to succeed in school and in the workplace. There is so much available - so many special programs and such, but they rarely come through and do their part. After college I once was a tutor for a year, and the kids wouldn't even show up. They just didn't care.
It's very disappointing. It's particularly bad in NYC.
Weren't Trump supporters the ones who claim the packaging doesn't matter, only the substance? Our main beef against Trump is how he constantly lies, breaks laws to his benefit and has no decency or loyalty to anyone but himself. But you're all happy for the wall, his crusade against non white immigrants, packing the courts etc. So now you listed a bunch of reasons to dislike Bloomberg because of the packaging.
You forgot to add he cares about climate change, gun control, immigration and a whole host of issues Democrats care about. Yeah, we don't really care about the packaging either when our candidate furthers our issues.
I am not a Trump supporter. I said that everything the Left fears and loathes about Trump is small change for Bloomberg. He is Trump with a bigger ego. See, Bernie believes in socialism, where the system is god, and that makes him a misguided ideologue. But Bloomberg amplifies the worst part of Trump...where HE is a god, and that makes him a tyrant, like Trump, just with more money, a bigger ego and a sycophantic media that will do the worst thing you can do with a tyrant...praise him.
I was also pointing out, albeit indirectly, the stunning hypocrisy of hating Trump and supporting Bloomberg, or seeing Bloomberg as some sort of "cure" for Trump. It's like deciding that smoking Marlboro reds is the problem, and the solution is switching to unfiltered Lucky Strikes.
There is a lot of truth to that comment. Now the question is why is it true and why did he make such a comment?
My guess would be he made the comment, not to criticize the young men, but in an effort to identify a problem, so we can begin to address it. Many young black men do not know how to interview for a job because they have been denied access to education and mainstream society through institutional racism.
Only be identifying a problem, can one begin to attempt to address it.
There is a lot of truth to that comment. Now the question is why is it true and why did he make such a comment?
My guess would be he made the comment, not to criticize the young men, but in an effort to identify a problem, so we can begin to address it. Many young black men do not know how to interview for a job because they have been denied access to education and mainstream society through institutional racism.
Only be identifying a problem, can one begin to attempt to address it.
He didn't say that.
'There's this enormous cohort of black and Latino males, age, let's say, 16 to 25, that don't have jobs, don't have any prospects, don't know how to find jobs, don't know what their skill sets are, [and] don't know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively and collectively'.
And some how Black women aren't effected. You are making excuses.
'There's this enormous cohort of black and Latino males, age, let's say, 16 to 25, that don't have jobs, don't have any prospects, don't know how to find jobs, don't know what their skill sets are, [and] don't know how to behave in the workplace where they have to work collaboratively and collectively'.
And some how Black women aren't effected. You are making excuses.
My comments highlight exactly what he said. He said this cohort has no skills and he implied because they have not had access to attain such skills. You have to be able to detect what someone means based on the context - that is called intelligence.
I don't believe for one second that anyone believes Bloomberg is a racist, which is what people are attempting to imply here. That is ludicrous.
Bloomberg's words sound harsh, especially coming from a privileged white man, but I know what he is talking about.
People want minority youth to succeed in school and in the workplace. There is so much available - so many special programs and such, but they rarely come through and do their part. After college I once was a tutor for a year, and the kids wouldn't even show up. They just didn't care.
It's very disappointing. It's particularly bad in NYC.
Culture has a huge influence on kids, especially poor kids with no real life role models. Modern culture is trash. Wat Bloomberg going to do about that? You can give them tools and direction but you can't make them care and modern trash filth media culture has already molded them.
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