Tagged: contemporary discrimination

“The economy has experienced 12 straight months of job growth above 200,000 and the overall unemployment rate has dropped 5.5 percent. But the recovery isn’t such great news for black Americans. The unemployment rate for black people was 11 percent in the fourth quarter of last year and was 10.4 percent in February. Both rates are still higher than the peak the national unemployment rate reached at the worst point of the recession — 9.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.”

As I always say, never believe the unemployment figures that are co-signed by the U.S. government. Although things are bad for Afr. Americans, it’s actually worse than what the U.S. government wants you and I to believe. It is for reasons like this, why Civil Rights Act of 1964 must be strengthened or a FEDERAL hue-man rights law designed to ERADICATE institutionalized and systemic forms of racism throughout American society must be passed!

Source: Bryce Covert. “Black America Is Still In A Deep Recession.” Think Progress. March 26, 2015. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/03/26/3639201/black-unemployment-recession/.