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The country’s spiraling unemployment rate is taking a particular toll on men as the recession continues to roil male-dominated industries, such as manufacturing and construction.

This “he-cession,” as it’s sometimes called, has hit African-American men especially hard, increasing their unemployment rate to more than 17 percent last month.

One of those unemployed black men searching for work is Randolph Smith. When Smith, 53, is working, he manages logistics, inventory and supplies for large companies. He’s been trying to find that type of work since he was laid off a year ago — but so far, he’s had no success.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    DAYUM
    shlt got my heart palvitating

    Economically we have been the HOLE holding the totem pole..and this is designed that way.
    I want you all to take note of all the wealthy black folk in America (Entertainers, Athletes) the wealth proposed altogether is averaged out 2 enhance our Social Ills this Country has imposed upon us Since they brought and Stole you in Africa….so I ask…WHERE IS OUR NATIONAL AGENDA TO TAKE OUR ECONOMIC ORDEAL AND ELEVATE IT THROUGH PROGRAMS INSPIRED BY US???? and not the fuking government because you are in your situation thanx 2 the Government and the Federal Reserve.. and America killin your BLACK Leaders and Killing your Leadership qualities bamboozling you in2 thinkin you need A BLACK LEADER and not standin up and UPRISING 4 YOUR NATURAL GOD GIVING RIGHTS…this God’s Land when did you have 2 start PAYING TAXES ON LAND YOU OWN??and you don’t even own sh1t..the land will never be giving away freely nor will your FREEDOM…they will KILL you 2 keep the status quo..WHAT WILL YOU DO
    NewsOne can you get on that 4 me? and make sure you get back 2 me with an HONEST reply

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    Everyone is following(sheep N2 slaughter)…and noone is leading….we are in disarray financially, dealing with our social ills and the ones predicated upon us….rent…lights…gas…other miscellaneous issues rather than worrying about being “”Grown & Sexy”" and if you are, this presents more of a problem within itself because 2 gain this “stature” what will A young man/woman do 2 attain this appearance and gain an edge 2 indulge a male/female 2 engadge or interact in a way that he/she has 2 feel WORTHY to SOCIALLY blend in with??? commit crimes? unemployment 4 Black Men alone is staggering and this is not because they do not want 2 work…A black woman has A lesser outlet 2 deal with it because 2 DIVIDE AND CONQUER you will be in A higher percentage bracket vs men as far as school and employment, and the ones that don’t choose 2 pay 2 play a form of prostitution along with Stripperism(Dancer?)one of my ‘ism’….now the education factor is an idealogy…It started as just the plain old HUMAN right 2 educate and inform oneself or assist one in achieving this….we now have 2 deal with the curriculum of dummying down edgumacation that has the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM shadowed by it’s Corporate counterparts….your child will be stygmatized in this society throughout and after his educational years…Black men KNOW that this sh1t is not 4 our progression(please don’t say start somewhere or any other n1gg3r cliche’s)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    When the economy is so called good, isn’t unemployment among black men still high too? Why should we be surprised by this? NanaStroker, is stroking the nail squarely on the head. Elijah Muhammad warned us of this day and it seems to be coming to pass. WAKE UP!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    MR_NANASTROKER… I heard the phucc outta all of that!

    but the issue is that we have economical sling shots and they have nukes! What the phucc are we supposed to do about that other than fight or die / fight & die!?

    Everything you addressed about black people needing to “fit in” in order to feel some type or worth on a social level is the main issue that keeps most black people divided, because that turns into competition via regional trends, Consistantly trying to out do one another.

    and when a real leader attempts to take the lead you get that “Nigga you think you better than me/us” speech coming from someone simply trying to compete (as to not look like he/she is lesser) so you let him/her lead and they shyt fall apart, you pick up and go again at the expense of a lowered morale and loss of time and energy.

    Until we learn how to “circle the wagons” or concentrate our resources we will continue to be out foxed & phucc’t over.

    We need a mass of focus with a clear goal in mind with everyone reading the same damn map… Now where we gone get dat type of cooperation?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    if ‘they’ wont give us a job, we gotta learn how to CREATE ONE for ourselves as well as becoming financially literate……

    Ressurrect BlackWallstreet

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    *round of applause* for the well spoken gentlemen below me *here here*

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/yetistillrise/ yetistillrise

    “BLACK MEN” YOU ARE AN EXTENSION OF GOD HIMSELF. YOU’RE MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD HIMSELF. SIT DOWN AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR GIFTS AND TALENTS ARE. THEN USE THOSE TALENTS TO MAKE A LIVING. DON’T WAIT ON NOBODY TO APPROVE YOU FOR NOTHING. GOD GAVE YOU THE APPROVAL WHEN HE GAVE YOU GIFTS AND TALENTS. SO JUST GO AND DO IT. IT’S TIME. FOR EXAMPLE I’M GOOD AND BRAIDING, POETRY, DESIGN. SO I MADE MY OWN BUSINESS CARDS AND I STARTED PUTTING THEM AROUND TOWN, AND BAM! I’M IN BUSINESS. AND I MADE MY OWN GREETING CARDS AND THEN MADE BUSINESS CARDS FOR THEM. AND BAM! I’M IN BUSINESS. I’M NOT GONNA LET NOBODY TELL ME WHAT I CAN’T DO WHEN MY BABIES ARE HUNGRY. WE GOTTA DO WHAT WE GOTTA DO. Y’ALL KNOW HOW TO GETCHA HUSTLE ON. ANOTHER IDEA LOOK AT WHERE YOU LIVE, WHAT’S NEEDED IN YOUR AREA. USE YOUR GIFTS TO PROVIDE THAT NEED. FOR INSTANCE I LIVE IN ALASKA, SO YOU KNOW IT’S SNOW FOR DAYS. GET A SHOVEL OR A TRUCK WITH A BLADE MAKE YOU SOME BUSINESS CARDS. BAM! YOU IN BUSINESS. WE ARE A PEOPLE WHO ARE FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH TALENT. START USING IT, THAT’S WHY GOD GAVE IT TO YOU. THIS WHOLE WORLD BELONGS TO YOU BLACK MAN! THE ANSWER TO YOUR UNEMPLOYMENT IS INSIDE OF YOU. IT’S LIKE GOD IS FORCING YOU TO USE WHAT HE PUT INSIDE YOU. IF NOBODY EVER GIVES YOU A JOB AGAIN WHAT WILL YOU DO? ARE YOU GONNA FIGHT TO SURVIVE OR ARE YOU JUST GONNA LAY DOWN AND DIE? I THINK NOT, YOU’RE TOO GREAT FOR THAT!!!!!!! DON’T YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE???? YOU’RE FROM A GOD THAT SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THE LIGHT APPEARED. GET UP AND TAKE YOUR PLACE. THIS IS YOUR WORLD. WE THE BLACK WOMEN NEED YOU! IT’S TIME!!!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!! I LOVE YOU MY BEAUTIFUL BLACK BROTHAS!!!!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/yetistillrise/ yetistillrise

    OH ALSO ANOTHER WAY TO ADVERTISE IS: GO TO A WEBSITE CALLED: BUILD A SIGN.COM YOU DESIGN YOUR OWN MAGNETIC SIGN YOU CAN PUT ON YOUR CAR. ALSO LOOK UP BUSINESS CARD HOLDER FOR YOUR CAR OR VECHICLE. I HAVE BUSINESS CARD HOLDERS ON MY CAR ALONG WITH MY MAGNETIC SIGNS, SO WHEREVER I DRIVE I BRING IN BUSINESS. AND WHEREVER I’M PARKED, LIKE THE STORE OR WHEREVER PEOPLE CAN GET MY BUSINESS CARD AND CALL ME. AND BEFORE I LEAVE THE HOUSE I MAKE SURE MY BUSINESS CARD HOLDERS ON EACH SIDE OF MY CAR ARE FILLED AND READY FOR THE DAY. YOU SEE THIS IS WHY YOU NEED YOUR BLACK WOMAN. IT’S THINGS THAT GOD PUT IN ME JUST FOR YOU. AND IT’S THINGS GOD PUT IN YOU JUST FOR ME. A BLACK WOMAN IS SUPPOSE TO HELP YOU MEET YOUR OBLIGATION TO GOD. AND WHAT IS THAT OBLIGATION? TO BE AN EXTENSION OF GOD TO THE BLACK WOMAN AND YOUR CHILDREN. TO HELP YOU BE THE BEST YOU. AND FOR YOU THE BLACK MAN TO HELP ME THE BLACK WOMAN TO BE THE BEST ME. WE NEED EACH OTHER. AND WE GOTTA GET IT TOGETHER CAUSE WE’RE NEXT IN LINE TO RULE. THAT’S WHY WE’RE BEING FORCED TO USE WHAT WE GOT. WE’RE NATURAL LEADERS CAUSE THIS IS OUR EARTH AND WORLD. AND THE WORLD IS WAITING ON US TO LEAD. YOU CAN’T LEAD FOLLOWING THE PEOPLE YOU’RE SUPPOSE TO LEAD. STOP FOLLOWING EVERYBODY ELSE AND FROM THIS DAY FORWARD ONLY FOLLOW GOD!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TiredMan/ TiredMan

    This is a surprise? For the last generation, there has been an anti-black male, pro-black woman bias in the realm of employment. Part of it is due to the fact that black women outnumber black men in higher education and tend to be more self-motivated. That fact tends to play out in hiring practices, where black men who are equally qualified and/or educated (or in some cases, surpass minimum qualifications) tend to be passed over in favor of black women. In many cases, its not due to lack of initiative on the part of black males, but the negative imagery that many whites harbor about black males…and it doesn’t help that we defend perpetuating the negative imagery with this “Southern Rap,” “reality” television, and our desire to be “hard” rather than smart.

    http://beyond-the-political-spectrum.blogspot.com/

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    U make a 2fold reply in your statement TiredMan

    U stated “Part of it is due to the fact that black women outnumber black men in higher education and tend 2 be more SELF MOTIVATED.

    U go on 2 state “In many cases, it’s not due to the lack of initiative on the part of black males”

    U tread on the gray line with both statements….now either we do or don’t which will it be?

    @ yetistillrise
    I appreciate and love your effort but I am not
    hearkening 2 cry foul on my behalf…..U must comprehend my statement…I was speaking 4 the Demographic of young Men/Women that may not possess a business savvy like you and I….I am not speaking on a selfish level and neither am I sayin you are but like Stan_Vinyl asks: We need a mass of focus with a clear goal in mind with everyone reading the same damn map… Now where we gone get dat type of cooperation?
    And how can we spread this FLUENTLY AND ABUNDANTLY in our Communities??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TiredMan/ TiredMan

    Both…cause and effect.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    OK @ TiredMan

    So, be’cause we have lower self esteem and
    the lack of motivation the majority of the reason that effects or Affects us?

    or is it vice-versa?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gren1shaw2/ gren1shaw2

    You can’t have genocide of a race without doing certain things undercover.unemployment is just one of things that have to be done in the twenty first century.racism is no longer hidden.black women and children are beaten,tortured and killed.homelessness,starvation and destroying the economic structure of black areas.terrorizing all of the men and belittling them in front of their families is the best way to destroy hope.white people are right on the money with their plans and can’t be stopped.a fearful and threatened black president that does nothing for small banks that make loans to small businesses that hire about 78% of the black men who would have jobs,perfect!racist white people showing that the black president is worthless just makes the situation that much more hopeless.white people here’s to doing a great job,you demons!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Deyanju1/ Deyanju1

    this isnt shocking news to me…thats why black men in america need to get an education…instead of hanging around on the street corner…..education is freedom…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    I’ve got a college degree in Graphics never hung out in street corners never
    had a criminal record, or made ANY babies….all I got out of all this long winded speeches is a temporary jobs that pays you low ball wages and you’ll end up working in jobs that’s not in your field….I got my education, but I had yet to see any freedom until I get paid decently and not getting paid low wages like the other Black men acroos America do now…..so much for all that bulls**t my parents and my teachers told me back in the day…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/yetistillrise/ yetistillrise

    God has already given the answers we seek. Through Farrakhan. Farrakhan is our Jesus of today. God helps us through people. The only map we need is God’s word. And accepting the help that he sent us through Farrakhan. Farrakhan inspired me to start my first business. Farrakhan not only feeds the soul. He feeds the whole person inspirationally, educationally, emotionally and finacially. Who can you name today in this time that reforms black people better than the Nation Of Islam? Just like it says in the bible of Jesus. He came among his own and his own received him not. It’s sort of like the story about a man on the roof who’s home had flooded. And he cried out Lord help me, save me. So God sent the man someone in a boat to help him. But the man rejected him and said, no I’m waiting on the Lord. So God sent him help in a hellicopter and again he refused the help and said, I’m waiting on the Lord. So the waters rose and the man on the roof died and went to heaven and said, Lord why didn’t you help me. And God said, I sent you a boat and a hellicopter. So the moral of the story is don’t reject your help to your problems because your help didn’t come the way you wanted it to come. Your help may even be coming through me with the words I speak. God uses whom he pleases to help you. Stop making excuses and whining and accept the help that God has already sent you. All right guidance come from God and starts with God. Without God it won’t work anyway.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TiredMan/ TiredMan

    Thank you for proving my point @ Jazzwatch. That what was my point…I know many black men–myself included–who are college-educated, childless, no criminal-record, etc. who can’t secure decent work. Part of the reason is the negative self imagery we project in the form of this “new” Southern Rap phenomenon, television, nightly news, and our our questionable acts (yes, I’m saying that we are complicit in our our plight to an extent…Bill Cosby was/is right, and we need to stop living in denial). The other part is because black women are favored more than black men in the employment market…it’s no news to US. ;)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Look, since we been in the west we aint never got shyt from thos white bytch but azz whoopins

    It was drm charles drew who gave us blood plasm and the when he got into a car accident and need plasm the racist hospitals wouldnt admitt him so he died on his way to a black hospital

    Where was the influence of rap then

    When marcus garvey came to the unite Snakes he had a beef wit many black newspapers cuz they always showed the worst of our ppl. His biggest beef was wit the chicago defender in 1917 cuz these self hating negropeans was puttin in they papers “skin bleachin” and “hair straitnin” to make it in amerikkkan society. To get that job u must look and act white

    Many of u negropeans are so phukin lost. Damn. And its self évident. Phuk this peckerewood and his jobs. The bastard is in africa stealin all the mineral resources. Time to pack up head home and use these mineral resources and our college education and degrees and build black africa up and keep these discriminatin peckerwoods the hell out of our country. They dont want us in theirs

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Or should i say keep the beast out of our COUNTRIES incase one of u smart azz nagas wanna say africa aint a country

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    LMAO @ maatra well said brother.

    Yes I live in Chicago and not only did the Defender play house nlgg3r so did the Head of NAACP at the time (WEB DuBois) used 2 throw jabs at Garvey calling him a dumb monkey and pig faced monkey and this coming from the Front man (like Obama is now) for the NAACP DuBois

    as far as leading a Liberation back 2 Africa….I can conclude with that scenario long due 2 facts that substantiate the WHY and 4 WHAT REASON we are being IDLE in America building A Country that never had us inset in2 the productive part of the program just the FREE LABOR and LOWER CLASS of this “Nation”.
    I think Black Folk would be scared 2 go 2 Africa and RE-ESTABLISH their rights and give A RE-BIRTH in another Country that is the RICHEST Country on this planet….that would be a noteworthy goal for us 2 Build A Black Nation without the Impurities we have dealt with 4 the past 575+years.
    If there was A National Plan 2 export “free slaves” back 2 Mecca then I am with that. Many will also play the Devil’s Advocate and some would be righteous in saying they would rather choose 2 stay in America because as far as we know this is the ROOT of our problems stemming from Slavery and the REPARATIONS DEBT that is DELINQUENT….coupled with the SACRIFICES our Ancestors provided 2 this Nation

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Spit that hot fire nanastrocker. But like u said many aint tryin to hear that

    But az malcom x said “if they give it to you they can take it away” letem all keep waitin on reperations

    Carter g woodson said “those who have not learned to do for themsleves and have to depend soley on others never obtain ant more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginnin”

    He also said “we need workers, not leaders. Such workers will solve the problems which race leaders talk about.”

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