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bobbyw24
02-11-2010, 05:37 AM
Black leaders said they'll push lawmakers to do more to create jobs for minorities after meeting with President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous and National Urban League President Marc Morial came out of the Oval Office meeting stressing that the jobless rate for black workers is far higher than the 9.7 percent national unemployment rate. The January unemployment rate for blacks was 16.7 percent, according to Labor Department statistics.

"It is not our desire to have a race-based formula but to have policy solutions that are mindful of the differences of those in the American public that are left out the most in their ability to feed their families and build their futures," said Sharpton, who attended the meeting as leader of his civil-rights group, National Action Network.

The group would "press Congress to add more targeted provisions to the jobs bill," Morial said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/80657-black-leaders-to-press-congress-for-minority-hiring-in-jobs-bill

Austrian Econ Disciple
02-11-2010, 06:18 AM
Black leaders said they'll push lawmakers to do more to create jobs for minorities after meeting with President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous and National Urban League President Marc Morial came out of the Oval Office meeting stressing that the jobless rate for black workers is far higher than the 9.7 percent national unemployment rate. The January unemployment rate for blacks was 16.7 percent, according to Labor Department statistics.

"It is not our desire to have a race-based formula but to have policy solutions that are mindful of the differences of those in the American public that are left out the most in their ability to feed their families and build their futures," said Sharpton, who attended the meeting as leader of his civil-rights group, National Action Network.

The group would "press Congress to add more targeted provisions to the jobs bill," Morial said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/80657-black-leaders-to-press-congress-for-minority-hiring-in-jobs-bill

Maybe if on the average more black's finished School that would help, and one way to help that is to end the war on drugs. Anyone proposing that? Nahhhhh.

..PAUL4PRES..
02-11-2010, 07:28 AM
Black leaders said they'll push lawmakers to do more to create jobs for minorities after meeting with President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

"It is not our desire to have a race-based formula but to have policy solutions that are mindful of the differences of those in the American public that are left out the most in their ability to feed their families and build their futures," said Sharpton, who attended the meeting as leader of his civil-rights group, National Action Network.

The group would "press Congress to add more targeted provisions to the jobs bill," Morial said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/80657-black-leaders-to-press-congress-for-minority-hiring-in-jobs-bill


Will we ever be united?

Warrior_of_Freedom
02-11-2010, 07:31 AM
Al Sharpton is a bigot.

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COFFEE PARTY 2012!!!

stu2002
02-11-2010, 07:32 AM
Imagine is this read:

White leaders intend to press Congress for majority hiring in jobs legislation

Warrior_of_Freedom
02-11-2010, 07:34 AM
double post?

..PAUL4PRES..
02-11-2010, 07:34 AM
Mods could you delete. Seems I always show up for the party late.

bobbyw24
02-11-2010, 07:35 AM
Mods could you delete. Seems I always show up for the party late.

Don't worry--we all do it all from time to time

..PAUL4PRES..
02-11-2010, 07:36 AM
How could you designate jobs for minorities anyway? How do they differentiate which people get jobs.

bobbyw24
02-11-2010, 07:38 AM
How could you designate jobs for minorities anyway? How do they differentiate which people get jobs.

I guess the Fed Govt would award major contracts to Minorty Owned Businesses

Austrian Econ Disciple
02-11-2010, 07:38 AM
How could you designate jobs for minorities anyway? How do they differentiate which people get jobs.

They all ready do this. It's called Affirmative Action.

Warrior_of_Freedom
02-11-2010, 07:39 AM
They all ready do this. It's called Affirmative Action.

My university had a office dedicated to affirmative action, do you believe that?

bobbyw24
02-11-2010, 07:41 AM
Many contracts that are let by agencies of the United States federal government contain financial incentives for the prime contractor to employ subcontractors that are owned or controlled by “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.” The US Small Business Administration certifies certain businesses as disadvantaged. This usually means that the business is owned by racial or ethnic minority groups or by women. In this particular case the contract stated that “...the contractor shall presume that socially and economically disadvantaged individuals include Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, and other minorities...”

Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peņa, 515 U.S. 200 (1995), is a United States Supreme Court case which held that all racial classifications, imposed by whatever federal, state, or local government actor, must be analyzed by a reviewing court under a standard of "strict scrutiny," the highest level of Supreme Court review (such classifications are constitutional only if they are narrowly tailored measures that further compelling governmental interests). Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the majority opinion of the Court, which effectively overturned Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC, 497 U.S. 547 (1990), in which the Court had created a two tiered system for analyzing racial classifications.

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adarand_Constructors_v._Pe%C3%B1a

Stary Hickory
02-11-2010, 07:43 AM
Yes we should definitely give use the force of law to give people jobs based on skin color. That's not racist one bit...not at all.

bobbyw24
02-11-2010, 07:46 AM
There can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual

Supreme Court Justice Nino Scalia

Warrior_of_Freedom
02-11-2010, 07:47 AM
Yes we should definitely give use the force of law to give people jobs based on skin color. That's not racist one bit...not at all.

You're right, it isn't racist. It is discriminatory :D