by Dr. Claud Anderson
In the face of staggering unemployment rates and financial turmoil, will jobs provide the economic basis for controlling urban assets?
their money inside the city. They can teach their children to value business ownership.
But, getting and maintaining employment is increasingly difficult. No other population group has as a goal providing jobs and employment opportunities for Black Americans. The federal government has shifted its hiring focus from
Blacks to Hispanics. For over 400 years Blacks held zero jobs in federal government. They made their first big entry in the ten years between 1965 and 1975 after bombings, marches, riots and deaths. The generation of Blacks hired during that period is retiring from government service and they are not being replaced by their capable, highly educated Black children.
With severe economic retraction, government jobs at
the city and state level are also disappearing. Of the non-government jobs, approximately 95 percent of the newly created jobs go into White communities. Only five percent went to non- White communities. Of those newly created
jobs, most went to non-Blacks. Since 2004, approximately 45 percent of all newly hired workers were Hispanics. The new jobs are targeted for Whites, Asians, Arabs and Hispanics
Many are jobs created by ethnic immigrant businesses that employ people from their own group, often in Black neighborhoods. Approximately 98 percent of Black people work for non-blacks outside of the Black community. Ethnic groups – Asians, Arabs, and Hispanics – are not acculturated to employ Blacks. European Whites are
the greatest employer of Black workers. The factors cited above, plus the escalating
and permanent loss in jobs in America, effect the potential of employment to be a vehicle to
Black economic control, and has produced a structurally high unemployment rate in Black America. Unemployment among Blacks has hit astronomical numbers.
The official national rate is 35%. In Detroit the rate is 48%, Baltimore is 48%, Pittsburgh is 49%, in New York City the Black male unemployment is 51% and the national unemployment for Black youth is 89%. Even these statistics are under-reported
because of they do not include the long term unemployed who no longer collect unemployment compensation or are so discouraged they are not actively searching for work. Compare Black unemployment statistics with White European Americans who have a 4.6 percent rate of unemployment, Asian- Americans and Arab-Americans with less than one percent rate of unemployment and Hispanics with 4.8 percent unemployment rate.
Will jobs provide the economic basis for controlling urban assets? As this newsletter went to press, the federal government aggressively intervened in failing financial markets and demanded Congress devise an instant trillion dollar fix. When the national unemployment rate for the entire country reached 25% during the 1930s Great
Depression, the federal government
declared a national disaster, mobilized public A Word of Explanation...You will notice that The Harvest Institute capitalizes the words Black and White when referring to people.
This may feel unfamiliar but we do it out of respect for both the Black and White race. It is inappropriate to
capitalize Asians, Hispanics, and other groups and not give Whites and Blacks respect to which both are entitled.
In the face of staggering unemployment rates and financial turmoil, will jobs provide the economic basis for controlling urban assets?
their money inside the city. They can teach their children to value business ownership.
But, getting and maintaining employment is increasingly difficult. No other population group has as a goal providing jobs and employment opportunities for Black Americans. The federal government has shifted its hiring focus from Blacks to Hispanics. For over 400 years Blacks held zero jobs in federal government.
They made their first big entry in the ten years between 1965 and 1975 after bombings, marches, riots and deaths. The generation of Blacks hired during that period is retiring from government service and they are not being replaced by their capable, highly educated Black children. With severe economic retraction, government jobs at
the city and state level are also disappearing Of the non-government jobs, approximately 95 percent of the newly created jobs go into White communities.
Only five percent went to non- White communities. Of those newly created jobs, most went to non-Blacks. Since 2004, approximately 45 percent of all newly hired workers
were Hispanics. The new jobs are targeted for Whites, Asians, Arabs and Hispanics. Many are jobs created by ethnic immigrant businesses that employ people from their own group, often in Black neighborhoods.
Approximately 98 percent of Black people work for non-blacks outside of the Black community.
Ethnic groups – Asians, Arabs, and Hispanics – are not acculturated to employ Blacks. European Whites are the greatest employer of Black workers.
The factors cited above, plus the escalating and permanent loss in jobs in America, effect the potential of employment to be a vehicle to Black economic control, and has produced a structurally high unemployment rate in Black America. Unemployment among Blacks has
hit astronomical numbers.
The official national rate is 35%. In Detroit the rate is 48%, Baltimore is 48%, Pittsburgh is 49%, in New York City the Black male unemployment is 51% and
the national unemployment for Black youth is 89%. Even these statistics are under-reported because of they do not include the long term unemployed who no longer collect unemployment compensation or are so discouraged they are not actively searching for work.
Compare Black unemployment statistics with White European Americans who have a 4.6 percent rate of unemployment, Asian- Americans
and Arab-Americans with less than one percent rate of unemployment and Hispanics
with 4.8 percent unemployment rate. Will jobs provide the economic basis for controlling
urban assets? As this newsletter went to press, the federal government aggressively
intervened in failing financial markets and demanded Congress devise an instant trillion dollar fix.
When the national unemployment rate for the entire country reached 25% during the
1930s Great Depression, the federal government declared a national disaster, mobilized public
resources, and made correction a top priority. For years unemployment for Black America has been 10% higher than the 25% national unemployment rate during the depression and government has not raised an eyebrow.
The Black labor force is structurally unemployed. Jobs hold some promise, but one must first have a job. Realistically, then, the burden
of correcting the job disparity, rests on Black Americans. Acquiring sufficient capital
to rescue our cities will require that Black people produce jobs for their own people.
OPTION 2 - CHARITY AND WELFARE:
Black Americans who cannot own a successful business or secure employment, will be
forced to descend to Option 2 – Charity and Welfare – for legal options. Contrary to popular myths, Black Americans have never been the primary beneficiaries of charity, welfare and other forms of public assistance. Whether
one looks at modern times or slavery, moreb poor Whites have received help from the public dole than Blacks. Slaves and their families were totally dependent upon the master’s generosity for survival.
Emancipation may have freed Black slaves legally, but they never received the economic bootstraps they were promised by the government – 40 acres, a mule and $100. They were set free without clothes,
land, homes, food, education, weapons, tools, animals or any economic resources.
They were forced then to remain in an dependent state.
OPTION 3 – THE CRIMINAL ROLLS
For those Blacks who cannot own a business, find a job, get on welfare rolls, and who
are not able to magically disappear, like members of any other group will find that crime or imprisonment are the next steps. Crime is not an acceptable nor a viable means for Blacks to achieve economic control of urban cities.
The community is harmed by criminal activities. Statistics show that Blacks tend to commit blue collar crime instead of the more lucrativewhite collar crime. Blue collar crimes are usually
visible and the perpetrators are more easily apprehended than the crimes of a Wall Street banker. The result is that while Black Americans make up only 12.4 percent of the nation’s over-all population, they are more than 51 percent of the prison population. Black prisoners, the majority of whom are between the ages of
18 to 45, will not contribute to taking economic control of urban areas. They are spending, what should be their most productive years of life, in prison.
Approximately 40 percent of all Black males in America are either in jail, in prison or
on parole. Crime does not produce the appropriate economic control of businesses and jobs that we must achieve to reclaim urban cities. Conclusion: While the reasons for crime and poverty in urban areas are numerous, the root issue is whether Blacks can or will successfully
practice group economics. It is the only way to improve the low social status of the group and repair dysfunctional communities.
Ethnic and racial groups who successfully practice group economics and control business development and employment are in a position to practice group politics. In our capitalistic democracy, economic power begets and dictates political power. It is not the other way around.
Posted By: Sylvainy R
Monday, May 25th 2015 at 3:35PM
You can also
click
here to view all posts by this author...
