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Saturday, January 5, 2013
If I were black
I wonder how I would feel about the President if I was black after four years. Unemployment among my teen agers has gone up by over 3,000,000. Employment among those with my color skin has risen to 18+% if counting those who have given up looking for a job or chosen to take a medical problem and go on Social Security benefits. If I am in poverty, I probably depend heavily on food stamps and now have a free cell phone from the government. My wages if I am middle class, have dropped by about $3,000 during the last four years. The cost of gasoline to get to my job has almost doubled from roughly $1.89 per gallon to $3.58 at this "low point" January 2013. If I choose to align myself with the Republican Party, I am an "Uncle Tom" and am ostracized by my black Democrat neighbors and organizations like the NAACP. If I am a teenager in high school, and if I do well academically, I am criticized by my peers. My heroes are basketball and football players and I view my only options to success are through these fields, or other, perhaps nefarious fields of endeavor. I have been taught that working at McDonalds isn't a starting point in a career, but a "dead end". We who are not black ask these questions and are viewed as racists, and how dare we make these statements! -- Enough Statistics based on CBO and Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
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