On this past Tuesday Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder Bob Johnson said something that I wholeheartedly agree with. He said that the nation would "never tolerate white unemployment at 14 or 15 percent." He went on, "No one would ever stay in office at 14 or 15 percent unemployment in this nation, but we’ve had that double unemployment for over 50 years." Now having said that, Reagan, the evil conservative, inherited a black unemployment rate of over 21 percent, when he left office it sat at 11. "The national average is 7.7 percent, and African-American unemployment is 13.8 percent. To be honest, it’s probably greater than that when you count the number of African-Americans who have simply given up on finding employment," said Johnson, who is also founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies.
First of all, anyone who seriously thinks that the 7.7 percent number being thrown around by Barry is an accurate reflection of our current employment situation in this country, is nothing but a complete moron. And I would also argue that a more accurate percentage of black unemployment would be a number somewhere well over 20 percent. But be that as it may, to hear these complaints coming from someone who most certainly voted for the one man most responsible for so many blacks being unemployed strikes as being more than just a little disingenuous. And if blacks as a whole are so pissed off about being without a job, why did THEY vote in huge numbers for the guy who has essentially put them out of work? Obviously, their priorities don’t include being able to find a job to support themselves.
Johnson is just another fraud who seems to take great pains to make excuses while ignoring the obvious. He said the challenge was to figure out why the unemployment rate for blacks has been so high, "and if that doesn’t change, somebody’s going to have to pay, 34 million African-Americans are not going to leave this country, millions of African-Americans who don’t have jobs." Well gee, I would think that would be a simple thing to figure that out, especially for a smart guy like Johnson. The reason millions of blacks don’t have jobs is because there aren’t any jobs. And what exactly has our first black president done in an effort to stimulate job growth. That would be, ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN! There are 10 Million fewer people in the workforce today than there were on January 20, 2009. Let’s see, what happened on that day, Mr. Johnson?
According to a poll Johnson commissioned, which was conducted by Zogby, 50 percent of African-Americans blame the "failure of the education system for minorities/African-Americans" for high unemployment among blacks. Also, 48 percent say the "lack of corporate commitment to hiring minorities/African-Americans" is to blame for unemployment in the black community. Twenty-five percent of respondents actually blame the lack of government policies for the high rate of black unemployment. Eighteen percent don’t blame anyone or anything, and twelve percent aren’t sure. Well as far as faulting the education system, who’s in charge of that? Ah, well that would be the same folks that blacks vote for, the Democrats. So as far as I’m concerned if blacks are looking for someone to blame they can look in the nearest mirror!
Johnson went on, "We can’t be competitive if we don’t put all our people on the field to work, and African-Americans can’t be consumers if they don’t have jobs. They can’t buy houses, and the reason the wealth gap is so high, we don’t [have] home ownership. We don’t have savings. We don’t have investments, and part of that is because we don’t have capital." He added, "So a white household can buy a home. Now it’s even more difficult to buy a home. There’s talk about taking the home deduction away as part of a chance to balance the budget, so all of these things, as I said, however the solution comes out, it’s going to impact us." he said. The net worth of median white households is $118,000 and stands in stark contrast with the net worth of median black households at only $11,800, Johnson said, again citing the Pew Research Center.
In 2009, the median net worth of white households was $113,149, while the median net worth of black households was $5,677, according to a July 26, 2011 report released by the Pew Research Center entitled, "Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics Twenty-to-One." Ok, so from where I’m standing that should the best indicator of all that points out the difference between willing to work versus willing to do nothing more than to live off of other who are willing to work. Ya know, and this is something that Mr. Johnson should know, you only get out of life what you put into it. If all you put into it is $5,677 worth of effort, guess what? So really, if you’re looking for a shoulder to cry on, you’re gonna have to look elsewhere!
And Mr. Johnson either ignores completely, or simply wishes not to discuss it, that the ability to ‘change’ things rests in the hands of blacks themselves. They have played a very significant role in where it is that they find themselves today. They have insisted upon perpetuating the most destructive force to ever hit the black community, the Democrat Party. And now the have the nerve to complain about what it is that they’ve created? Over the course of the last 4 or 5 years there has been much talk about ‘change’, but very little has taken place, at least any positive ‘change’. So if blacks, including Mr. Johnson, are truly interested in ‘change’ then they know what the must do. But I seriously doubt that they have the necessary courage to do what’s needed. And look before someone decides to go off the deep end and start accusing me of being racist, again, what have I said that isn’t true. Our fate, no matter what our color, rests in our own hands.
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