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How so?
by cmelbye 16y ago
How so?
- SkyMarshal 16y agoI probably wouldn't have used a pic of a befuddled looking black guy as the sole picture for an article about the unemployed.
- cmelbye 16y agoAgain, why? Blacks are technically just as likely to be unemployed as whites.
- nostrademons 16y agoTechnicallly, they're almost twice as likely to be unemployed as whites: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm Which is why using a black man for the picture isn't particularly smart. It's offensive because it's true, and nearly any conclusion you can draw from it is going to piss off someone.
- GeneralMaximus 16y ago> It's offensive because it's true ... Something about that sentence isn't right.
- crpatino 16y agowhat's wrong with that? true == offensive everybody knows this!
- wntdaliv 16y agoIf you account for blacks who are ex-felons or on parole who can't get jobs, black people are much more likely to be unemployed than whites. A Western study shows that black people with a criminal history are half as likely to get a return call than whites with similar history in low level positions. Further, even for blacks without a criminal history,this same study shows that they are about half as likely to get a return call than whites with the same background. This doesn't even include the roughly 15% of the black population currently being held in U.S. prisons who may or may not eventually be released and find that no one will hire them. Source: UC Irvine Criminology, Law & Society C7 taught by Professor Seron Spring 2010.
- brsanders 16y agoWhy? We strive for equality among all races, but it's wrong for a black person to be portraying a less than ideal situation?
- raganwald 16y agoI was offended as well, I thought they were portraying a black guy as the befuddled hiring manager who won't interview anyone who isn't currently employed.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoSometimes a picture is just a picture.