Most African Americans are middle/working income ....not in poverty nor "high value"(yall buzzword)

[UberEatsDriver]

Just revisiting something I've already said before ....usually folks here are complaining about poverty/wealth but all this so call "High value" this & that is floating around recently.

Labeling a retiree drawing on (social security / Medicaid) as "public Assistance" seems odd even though I technically "get it".

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Most African Americans are regular middle of the road folks doing stuff like...

• cable man
• power/phone line maintenance
• H.R.
• Helpdesk
• nursing
• construction
• auto repair
• security
• post office(other random government jobs)
• I.T.
• Medical / Legal work
• Politics
• church staff
• education
• Retail
• etc etc etc...

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I.E. most African Americans are not impoverished minimum wage workers lost in americana with a hand full of so called "high value" individuals in the mix. Most are regular folks who live around other African Americans and they live in low cost of living areas where food & housing are relatively cheap.

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List of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations - Wikipedia



EXAMPLES:

Jackson, MS
79.4% Black or African American

$82K / 3bd, 2ba, 1,645 sqft
3118 Longwood Dr, Jackson, MS 39212 | MLS #331951

Birmingham, AL
(My city)
73.4% Black/African American

$86K / 3bd, 2ba, 1,551 sqft
845 Hibernian St, Birmingham, AL 35214 | MLS #868918

Memphis, TN
63.33% African American

$90K / 4bd, 3ba, 2,002 sqft
2225 Pratt St, Memphis, TN 38106

If I were you I’d be more research on Jackson. I’m pretty sure most of the black people living there would get out if they had the chance

 

[Cadillac]

I knew shyt was all talk when I saw and read multiple articles about this.

The government shutdown spotlights a bigger issue: 78% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck

Almost everyone is cappin. .


That shyt told on everybody.

covid pulled back the curtains and exposed what happens backstage.

 

[Pacni99a12]

I'm gonna say this everybody is high value. We need to value each other more as black people.

I respect the positivity bruh but everyone is not high value

 

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@Unknown Poster

Adding to your point, in order to reform/replace that system we have to have a accurate description of the state of affairs and what forces are at play.

My problem is the extent to which folks fail at accurately describing things, which leads to folks potentially focusing on the wrong things to fix ...or their focusing on [one of] the many right things that need attention, but putting disproportionate energy into it relevant to it's importance.

It’s the lies. Did you know there was a study some years ago stating that blacks, particularly black females, weren’t the most obese demographic in America. According to hip to waist ratio, white and Hispanics were.

Or that black fathers spend the most time with their children and are the most sexually responsible when it comes to using protection.

Or that they overscreen black females for STDs to maintain comfortable white narratives of black female promiscuity and dont screen whites females at all for STDs resulting in skewed data for black populations and millions of white women with undiagnosed STDs?


This lying on African Americans also has another nefarious role. Whites project onto us how they WANT us to be, vs. how we actually are. And they lie on us again and again and again and again until many blacks start believing it themselves. They control the media, the peer reviews where the information is published, the institutions working on the data and more.

So it’s easy for them to craft myths about our community and create stories around them and put them in the media. I said years ago on this site before we can actually address the issues in our community, we actually need HONEST INFORMATION ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY.

You doing God’s work!

 

[UberEatsDriver]

This is common sense to me honestly

 

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