http://www.nationalreview.com/article/44...y-politics

Good read.

One quote: "A few days after Obama’s Selma address, National Public Radio aired an interview with the city’s mayor, George Evans. The interviewer wanted to know how “what happened in Selma 50 years ago fits into the current conversations about race relations in this country.” But Evans, the city’s second black mayor, didn’t see a clear connection between the problems that blacks faced five decades ago and current obstacles. “I’m not sure how it fits,” Evans responded. “We have a lot more crime going on in 2015 all over the country than we had in 1965. Segregation existed, but we didn’t have the crime. So now, even though we’ve gained so much through voting rights and Bloody Sunday, we’ve stepped backwards when it comes to crime and drugs in the jail system — things like that.” Apparently, that wasn’t the answer the interviewer was looking for, and so she pressed the mayor. “What’s life like for the average black citizen in Selma,” where 80 percent of residents are black, she asked. “I mean, your city does have challenges. You’ve got chronic unemployment rates. What are the biggest problems from your vantage point?” Still, the mayor refused to do what Obama had done in his speech and make facile historical parallels. “Well, from the standpoint of jobs, we have a lot of jobs,” said Evans. “It’s just that there are a lot of people who do not have the skill level to man these jobs. And that’s the biggest problem we have. There are industries and businesses here that are searching for people to come to work. But many times they’re not able to get the jobs because they’re not going back to pick up that trade or that technical skill that’s needed in order to take that job.”"

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/44...y-politics

(07-24-2017 03:25 PM)bullet Wrote:  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/44...y-politics

Good read.

One quote: "A few days after Obama’s Selma address, National Public Radio aired an interview with the city’s mayor, George Evans. The interviewer wanted to know how “what happened in Selma 50 years ago fits into the current conversations about race relations in this country.” But Evans, the city’s second black mayor, didn’t see a clear connection between the problems that blacks faced five decades ago and current obstacles. “I’m not sure how it fits,” Evans responded. “We have a lot more crime going on in 2015 all over the country than we had in 1965. Segregation existed, but we didn’t have the crime. So now, even though we’ve gained so much through voting rights and Bloody Sunday, we’ve stepped backwards when it comes to crime and drugs in the jail system — things like that.” Apparently, that wasn’t the answer the interviewer was looking for, and so she pressed the mayor. “What’s life like for the average black citizen in Selma,” where 80 percent of residents are black, she asked. “I mean, your city does have challenges. You’ve got chronic unemployment rates. What are the biggest problems from your vantage point?” Still, the mayor refused to do what Obama had done in his speech and make facile historical parallels. “Well, from the standpoint of jobs, we have a lot of jobs,” said Evans. “It’s just that there are a lot of people who do not have the skill level to man these jobs. And that’s the biggest problem we have. There are industries and businesses here that are searching for people to come to work. But many times they’re not able to get the jobs because they’re not going back to pick up that trade or that technical skill that’s needed in order to take that job.”"

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/44...y-politics

that's what happens when subsidizing the lowest common denominator is the schematic for the impoverished....

now it's become a bigger problem.....it's scary how often both sides dropped the ball after Ike.....now, it's my ******* problem....

I'm glad that I got to this thread early.

I can agree with the Mayor here.