Joblessness Skyrockets Among Young Black Americans
From the Washington Post:
These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother’s one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy. As a young black man, Spriggs belongs to a group that has been hit much harder than any other by unemployment.
Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions — 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment in the District, home to many young black men, rose to 11.9 percent from 11.4 percent, even as it stayed relatively stable in Virginia and Maryland.
His work history, Spriggs says, has consisted of dead-end jobs. About a year ago, he lost his job moving office furniture, and he hasn’t been able to find steady work since. This summer he completed a construction apprenticeship program, he says, seeking a career so he could avoid repeating the mistake of selling drugs to support his 3-year-old daughter. So far the most the training program has yielded was a temporary flagger job that lasted a few days.
“I think we’re labeled for not wanting to do nothing — knuckleheads or hardheads,” said Spriggs, whose first name is pronounced Dee-lon-tay. “But all of us ain’t bad.”
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lol i heard that @ trisha_369
WHAT ELSE IS NEW? THATS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW…….
all of us are to blame for the troubles in the world when we not doing nothing to stop the hate ,killing,immature death while not learning quickly what to do the right way about it.ppl raise ur head above the clouds look down whre you live what control the food the clothing for your back how many ppl waiting to take the next man space for a job to feed his family?before you answer its the same thing that’s happening in china but the difference with some race is a few rather be a slave there own than another race.if we control our offspring ,not literly,i mean for the world sake, that every race should do is control there population to a balance. now if black ppl is an danger to exstinct,well we should know how to start,and that’s how we make the mega rich have more respect for life because we have more control of how many kids that’s being born to be working in there factory.know imagine that with an entrepreneur mind,skys the limit,if you create something in a factory,the company has the right to say your creation is theirs.know imagine a million ideas that was taken away.
Soula Flarez, what on earth are you going to trade Africa with? How would business with africa help us out economically?
And for the record, my post below was referring to Maatra alone, not all black people!
Maatra, for all of our sakes, please go to Zimbabwe.
Oh and I wanted to apologize to you on behalf of all white people for you stubbing your toe. Poor baby! You aren’t a fighter, you’re a whiner.
Keep on whining Steve Urkel
It was the Africans who sold us over here for some rum, sugar and beads. They gathered up all the doctors, artists, educators, politicians, architects and royalty and brought them to the shores where they sold to Europeans for rum, sugar and a handful of beads and fabric. In other words, a bunch of n!ggers who like to do nothing but fight, get drunk and look good, sold all the intelligence out of their country. That’s why all the doctors, teachers, architects, scientists, inventors and geniuses are over here and there is nothing left in AFrica now but a bunch of dummies who stood around looking stupid while their country got taken from them. Go BACK to Africa?? I never left her. She sold me to America and I was born here. We may have come here in chains, but we are running things NOW!
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It’s time for war, I don’t understand what kind of change africans want in america with out fighting for it ! It’s time to set things in motion out here, it’s gonna take at least 12 generations of africans to go at these kats. When europeans invaded africa they went to war with us and stole all of our technology, so what’s our problem. We’ll fight and kill each other but yet we’re chicken shyt when it comes to stepping to the man for our freedom and dying for a real cause. We’re not going to survive in this system if we don’t do some thing cause the clock is ticking fast !! We looking real stupid out here while the system has big plans for us. The messed up part about this is that there’s going to be alot of sell outs and suckers within the african community that are going to submit to this new demonic system that’s about to be put in place. you got africans in america and various parts of the world who don’t want to associate them self with the thought of going back to africa and fight for our land because of the distorted images and video that european media have been injecting us with for decades. WE NEED OUR OWN SYSTEM AS WE ONCE HAD IT ! We Depend on them for food and we wonder why we have all sorts of illness, WE CONTROL NOTHING !
From what i observed the problem really aint the peckerwood here in the hells of north amerikkka its the many NEGROPEANS and non negropeans who hope this white boy will change or the goodones will stand up.
I aint wit runnin myself but this country is gone to hell and the only way we can restore ORDER is to fight this beast and many of us wont even stick our tounge at this weak soft whyte bytch
I got my eye on ZIMBABWE. And if you study many of us that came here to the west we were traders and explorers and either went back home or continued to sail.
My ancestors are callin me back home
all of us aint gonna be down for going back to Afrika and thats they choice…. but we should at least be doing BUSINESS/trade with our people across the waters!
times are hard…for EVERYONE
common sense says that people are going to look out for THEIR OWN first…
(ie- massah gonna employ HIS children before he will employ YOURS)
this is what happens when we put ourselves in a position to say “can I please have a job”…..instead of learning how to CREATE jobs for ourselves, like foriegners do.
employee is a fancy term for ’servant’. Boss aka ‘baas’ (bovine/cow) or ‘bos’(master)
@maatra I’m all for Black empowerment but going to Africa wouldn’t accomplish anything, because we would be hated by them too. Besides i wouldn’t go anyway, they should go back where they came from; I ain’t running.
“I think we’re labeled for not wanting to do nothing — knuckleheads or hardheads,” said Spriggs, whose first name is pronounced Dee-lon-tay. “But all of us ain’t bad.”
This is sad,
this is what happens 2 young men/women when the absence of truth is void! they would choose 2 lower themselves in2 adding on the degredation or question their worth and POWER and complete the tactics of A Nlgger mindstate and state of mind that should be outdated…..But these Ill Effects also come from the Channels of wave patterns they unwillingly absorb….Coonery, News, BET, Music, Historical Events that have been Americanized, Educational Curriculum, Absent Mother/Father due 2 employment and the PARENTS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE so these neuro-toxins can either elevate the Brain or dissipate flow of neuro-transmitters(Psychological Biology….I learned this from A Professor in Psychology 101)
AND YES I HAVE A WORTHLESS ASS BS DEGREE AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT IT’S WORTH BS…ADDITIONALLY I AM UNEMPLOYED BUT I WILL ALWAYS BE A HUSTLER so yeah I go the hard and snap on these weak ass mufukers that do sideshow ass articles because I been fukin around on the streets 4 27 years decide 2 go back and finish some shlt I started…get the Degree and WAISTED MY TIME somewhat. so yeah maatra PHUCK NEWSONE TWO THREE FOUR AND FIVE AND TEN MUF**KERS THAT THINK LIKE THEM 2
“I think we’re labeled for not wanting to do nothing — knuckleheads or hardheads,” said Spriggs, whose first name is pronounced Dee-lon-tay. “But all of us ain’t bad.”
This is sad,
this is what happens 2 young men/women when the absence of truth is void! they would choose 2 lower themselves in2 adding on the degredation or question their worth and POWER and complete the tactics of A Nlgger mindstate and state of mind that should be outdated…..But these Ill Effects also come from the Channels of wave patterns they unwillingly absorb….Coonery, News, BET, Music, Historical Events that have been Americanized, Educational Curriculum, Absent Mother/Father due 2 employment and the PARENTS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE so these neuro-toxins can either elevate the Brain or dissipate flow of neuro-transmitters(Psychological Biology….I learned this from A Professor in Psychology 101)
AND YES I HAVE A WORTHLESS ASS BS DEGREE AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT IT’S WORTH BS…ADDITIONALLY I AM UNEMPLOYED BUT I WILL ALWAYS BE A HUSTLER so yeah I go the hard and snap on these weak ass mufukers that do sideshow ass articles because I been fukin around on the streets 4 27 years decide 2 go back and finish some shlt I started…get the Degree and WAISTED MY TIME
We get in the wind. Travel the windbelts thats how we got over here.
Push come to shove we get in the wind.
lol..brotha most of us can’t afford a bus ticket WITHIN the country, how in the hell do you propose we pay for a ticket OUT of the country?!
Africa for the Africans. Lets take our skills and go bac to africa and build. The peckerwood and ITS discriminating azz can have this country