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This has as much to do with classism as racism. Qualified black people have made inroads in certain areas. Around Chicago, the Post Office, Utility companies and political patronage jobs are well-staffed with Blacks in high positions. Yes, private industry does maintain its quotas and glass ceilings. BTW, Jesse Jackson writes a column for one of Chi-town's major newspapers. We know that whoever controls the purse strings gets to tell the story. Corporate Networks with their picture perfect token black news anchors reserve the right to show that they haven't completely abandoned the racism that millions of their white viewers harbor. And so it goes. NBC has just aired the results of a detailed breakdown in a poll surveying America's population. This poll showed that the vast majority of Americans of all ethnicities fall into the pragmatic, libertarian middle-of-the- road category. They don't want too much government interference but they are willing to pay their share of taxes, and think the rich should do the same. They believe that all citizens should be treated "fairly" and that the needy should be helped. They really hate America casting itself as the policeman of the world and are against all of these wars being fought on foreign soil. The 2 people most trusted by this group are: Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey. Go figure.

I'm not going to lie.... I'm VERY disappointed in the behavior of AfroAmericans these past 30 years. Too many have turned stupid, immoral, and savage. But my criticism comes from a position of love and caring. If you CARE about someone, their negative behavior and pitiful state of existance bothers you. The difference between MY critique of Black people and how we're portrayed in the media is that I try to investigate and get to the bottom of why so many of our people do what they do so we can solve the problem. The media just shows the end result of what 30 years of Reaganomics and right-wing domestic policies have produced in urban America. You want to show the video clip of the Black man robbing the liquor store and praise the cops for nabbing the "bad guy". But you don't want to do a story on how many times that same man applied for jobs around town and his applications were thrown in the garbage or "lost" effectively locking him out of the workforce so that he couldn't make a decent living for himself. There used to be a time that if a Black man graduated from highschool and didn't go to jail, he was almost guaranteed SOME sort of job to make a living for himself even if he didn't get rich. Now they're saying, "Yeah, we know you have a college degree and no criminal record, fuck you anyway...lol. We're not hiring ya. Whatcha gonna do about it....call Jesse Jackson?????"