half of Chicago young black males are unemployed

[Originalman]

These 30 to late 40s parents of those kids failed them big time... and the cycle will continue

So not gentrification, factory jobs and companies moving overseas and to the south for cheaper labor rates and no unions, chicago now being a service sector industry, busineses in chicago only hiring folks part time, older folks being shut out of jobs so they have to take minimum wage jobs that young folks usually get and a large wage gap are all these parents fault?

Thats not even mentioning that the state of illinois been broke for decades, closing schools in chicago, funding for after school programs and trade schools has drastically been cut over the last 25 years.

As a person born and raised in chicago trust it aint the parents for the reason for unemployment. Even educated black folks from well to do parents have trouble getting hired in that city.

 

[Originalman]

Also a lot of folks in chicago are under employed which is basically trying to get full time work but only being able to get part time work.

 

[Originalman]

Midwest in general is a shythole.

Anyone that knows the midwest knows they been hemorrhaging jobs for over 40 years. And them jobs aint never coming back cause they overseas or in the south now.

Hell trump and all these politicians from Obama down run on bringing jobs back to the midwest and yet still they ain't seen no real growth. Cause them corporations ain't bringing them jobs back.

 

[Absalom's Thought]

The system failed them.

No. Their black fathers failed them; their fellow black men failed them. It's no-one else's responsibility.

 

[Originalman]

It's fukked up out here.

I'll be leaving soon.

Kats have no idea how segregated and racist the city is. Then as the employment market has shrunk the pie is smaller whites hold on even tighter to those positions. But even non black folks and educated folks have issues finding work in chicago.

I know educated folks that have been laid off and and it took them 2 years to find a job. I know non black kats who graduated with good degrees and can't find work.

One young brotha I was mentoring dipped out of Chicago and is doing well. I told him when he was getting out of college to find the first thing smoking. Cause he would graduate with that paper and have no job or a low paying job looking for years to get on somewhere else.

Told kat to go to NESB and see what they were talking about. Dude went to the NSBE confetence and ended up getting an offer to kansas making good money. I was like take that shyt and in 1 year you will have the experience then you can bounce or come back if you like.

Homie took that job and 2 years later dude makes 6 figures. Just like that. He was thanking me last week just for the advice cause half his class he graduated with in chicago still can't find a job (most are white, asian and indian) or got some real low paying job.

But hey his classmates were stuck on not leaving and staying in chicago instead of using that education to better themselves.

 

[staticshock]

Let's keep it 100 a good amount of them are not trying to get no job and don't give a fukk about school.

But they damn sure can make a drill video & upload it on YouTube or threaten each other on social media

You can’t help nikkas who don’t want to be helped

 

[Serious]

But they damn sure can make a drill video & upload it on YouTube or threaten each other on social media

You can’t help nikkas who don’t want to be helped

Thats a symptom not the overall cause.....

 

[Art Barr]

I see tables in alot of nikkaz futures in this thread.
Whole lot of c00n'n goin on and comments made like they not black.
or they come from the burbs or country and lack urban intellectualism in this thread.



Art Barr

 

[Marc Spector]

Chicago is losing people faster than any other million plus city I believe. Houston is on pace to overtake them as 3rd biggest, if it hasn't happened already.

 

[10bandz]

i thought chance the rapper and obama were going to fix this

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Rust Belt

The Rust Belt is the region of the United States from the Great Lakes to the Northern Midwest States. Rust refers to the deindustrialization, or economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector. The term gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1980s.

The Rust Belt begins in western New York and traverses west through Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, ending in northern Illinois, eastern Iowa, and southeastern Wisconsin. Previously known as the industrial heartland of America, industry has been declining in the region since the mid-20th century due to a variety of economic factors, such as the transfer of manufacturing further West, increased automation, and the decline of the US steel and coal industries. While some cities and towns have managed to adapt by shifting focus towards services and high-tech industries, others have not fared as well, witnessing rising poverty and declining populations.

Rust Belt - Wikipedia

Let the media tell it, black people are out of work because of laziness, but whites are out of work due to automation, and sending jobs overseas. Supposedly, white people need the drugs because they're so depressed about not finding work (despite work being available in some places, but they can't pass the drug tests), yet black people are just happy to live off the government, because we feel they owe us, and are driving BMWs, and eating filet mignon on food stamps. Oh, and apparently, we're askng for more welfare money, not jobs, and the average working white person is fully supporting a black woman with 7 kids.

 

[Bonk]

No. Their black fathers failed them; their fellow black men failed them. It's no-one else's responsibility.

Yes, parents also share part of the blame but a lot of these kids were raised in home where the dads are either dead, in jail, poor, or are deadbeat dads. And it's a cycle of a system that has failed generations of black people.

There's a reason why certain countries are classified as "developed countries". Once you have that tag attached to you, it's always about no-one left behind and there's a reason why these countries have social security that's designed to help the most vulnerable people in the society. Also, I'm sure most of these kids are unemployable and the onus falls on the school system that failed to trained them the right way. Parents don't teach kids how to be employable, that's the responsibility of the school system.

If we're being honest, apart from poverty, the biggest contributing factor to kids ending up in gangs and other irresponsible extracurricular activities is boredom. So what happened to government creating/funding youth clubs for kids in the inner cities since they're the most susceptible to criminal activities and, the school system isn't doing its job?

 

[Bonk]

You have to start somewhere though. And that will include shytty pay, fukked up schedules, and hard work. What do you think someone should be paid for no skills or experience?

You're right.

However, it's difficult for someone who has been involved in criminal activities and fast life from a very young age, making, say $300 a day selling drugs, to leave that and go work as a laborer in a factory on minimum wage. So you've to catch the young before they go astray.

 

[Tom Foolery]

It's over for black people in America.

Economic change and Replacement population will wipe you out.

 

[Hey_zeus]

The segregated city.