William Reed, Insight News
- Like legendary Roman Fiddlers, African Americans stood starry-eyed in June when the numbers showed Sen. Barack Obama would be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. In unison with the race-neutral Obama campaign, African Americans too have turned a blind eye to the fact that Black joblessness is twice that of white Americans.
The devastating effects of crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization among African Americans are fundamentally a consequence of the lack of work that Blacks endure because of institutional racism and a lack of attention to public policies on this issue. Too many Blacks can’t get a job and any candidate wanting African American votes should be made to outline economic plans that provide more jobs for us and all Americans.
