I’m off to seek employment for you son!
Despite voting for Obama over 90% of the time, young blacks have depression era unemployment right now.
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.
The story then covers some sob cases which I will ignore because it isn’t surprising that a 24 year old with little job history and on probation for dealing drugs has some trouble finding work….
What I’ll discuss, instead, is what I believe was his main reason for having achieved so little in his 24 years.
And how it happened seems related to this statistic a bit later in the article:
Lower-income white teens were more likely to find work than upper-income black teens, according to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, and even blacks who graduate from college suffer from joblessness at twice the rate of their white peers.
When I was starting my career as a software engineer, I sent out about 300 resumes. This yielded one interview. My Dad, however, worked his network and hooked me up with several interviews. Three of which resulted in job offers.
I imagine the Dad effect is even bigger in construction and with less skilled labor. Who do you think gets the entry jobs at these industries? The kids of the Dads that work there, or the kids of their friends, or the friends of their kids.
Black culture has lost the Dad network. Their culture having replacing fathers with government and cult figures like Obama, young blacks find themselves at a real disadvantage. Obama may steal some of my money for you, but he isn’t going to get you a job, nor the skills to progress in a career. Dads do that.
The 24 year old drug dealer that claims to want to work had no Dad around to teach him and has no Dad out their hawking his virtues – that has to make it a lot harder to find entry level work.
Dad for Obama was a bad trade.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Well, if a child didn’t have the good sense to pick the right parents, someone will have to help him find a decent way in life. POTUS’s role in such a scheme is to foster government and private programs that can produce enough help to get the unfortunate child into responsible adult life. It won’t be easy and it won’t be cheap, but the cost to society of failing to do so keeps rising. Maybe we can remember the axiom: it takes a village to raise a child.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I disagree. I do not think POTUS or the Feds have any role at all. Mainly because it doesn’t work.
Villages aren’t thousands of miles wide with hundreds of millions of people.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
They don’t have interested uncles either! Uncle Sam, especially now, doesn’t want lazy troublemakers. Lots of them have aunts as enablers, “Oh, he’s really a good boy!” That’s what we hear at trials.
Want to see a job network work, watch the asians. Mamasan puts the pennies in a brown bag, later the son puts the money in a black bag and goes off to buy the enterprise that Poppasan has targeted for years.
Black youths are not numerous enough to worry about rescuing if their
fathers won’t do it. Sad but true.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:24 am
It isn’t a case of worrying or not, it is if it is even possible. Billions of dollars and decades show that rescue is basically not possible. It has to happen before and it has to happen culturally, not individually.