I am not sure what the complaint here is?
Yes, unemployment remains stubbornly high among African Americans. So what do you think is the cause / solution?
1. The problem is systemic racism and thus no one will hire them.
Its obvious there are some racists out there, but I think they represent a pretty small minority of hiring managers.
But I would suggest that there is a bias against unskilled, under educated people who don't have a steady work history. As evidence I point to the fact that people who have been unemployed for longer periods seem to have a more difficult time finding jobs.
2. The problem is illegals / undocumented workers.
Most jobs I have seen obvious illegals working were roofing, day labor construction hands, landscaping, farm hands, and nannies. I don't think any of those jobs excluding farm hands and nannies were disproportionately historically held by blacks.
I don't know that jobs are restricted to certain segments of the population. If people had to work and those jobs were available, not taken by illegals, then they would be taken by those who need them and have a right to them legally.
3. The problem is welfare.
We don't have true welfare anymore. You can get it for a couple of years and your done. If you have children you can draw it longer, but even then its hardly a living. I mean hell if living in government projects with a 300 bucks or a so month in welfare is not an incentive to better yourself, then I don't know what is. Moreover, this whole notion that welfare creates an incentive for having kids they can't afford to take care of is pretty absurd when you consider the fact that having kids you can't take care of is a problem in virtually every third world country and virtually none of them have a welfare system. If welfare is the reason for blacks having kids they can't afford here in the USA, then why are they doing it in the DRC or Haiti??
I don't know where you get that. It may have had some truth during the 90's when there was a concerted effort to put welfare recipients to work but that all changed as one of the first things Pres. Obama did, to reduce or eliminate work requirements for welfare recipients.
I was in a Walmart not too long ago where there were lots of people trying to checkout with not enough clerks. The clerk said that they hire new clerks every week but many never show up for work but use being hired and fired as qualifying for another bout of welfare of some sort. And then there's the growing SSI rolls expanding.
So what is the solution? What are yall bitching about the president not doing about this? Do you want him to issue an executive order telling every unemployed African American to get the f*** to work? I mean really, what do you want to do about it?