Study: Minneapolis metro has nation’s ‘worst relative disparity’ in employment based on race

[...] Minneapolis has scored pretty high on a variety of polls and surveys lately, but we’re far from perfect… and perhaps more than a tich racist. [...]

I’m shocked at this result. Makes a person think…

Before we engage in too much self-flagellation, education isn’t the only factor they should have tested for. A huge chunk of Minneapolis’ black population are immigrants. This was a national study and I doubt the authors knew about this, and also Minneapolis is unusually high in black immigrant population so it’s not a test they would have generally applied. However, before we make assumptions, we should see the unemployment rates for native-born blacks and immigrants separately.

Also, it looks like by “Minneapolis”, they mean the whole metro area, not just Minneapolis. I’d like to know how much the disparity is clustered.

Well…DUH!

Who would not know this? Only evil Republi-thugs that are too busy lining their pockets with profits made off of these same poor people.

The Black immigrants make up a small portion of the total black population in Minnesota and in the metro area. besides, even when you do count them, most African immigrants are highly educated and have more than a HS diploma we just don’t recognize their degrees. My father has been unemployed with a master’s degree, education license for over 2 years. When we first moved to MN back in 1988 he was turned down for over 100 jobs because he was “over qualified” and his veterans status was of no use to him then.
MN is quite the racist state albeit institutional racism, racism nonetheless.

Well, they don’t come here to work, they comes here’s fors da welfares checkses.

I’ve worked in the high technology industry in this area for the past 35 years, with about 7 different companies. In all that time and with all of those companies, I’ve never had a black co-worker. Given the number of high tech companies in this area and the number of jobs they represent, that’s probably a huge reason for the disparity right there.

The report does not suggest what causes might be at play so we are to assume racism is the culprit. It could be, but too bad that wasn’t studied as well.

I wonder how important the location of one’s residence is for one’s likelihood of being employed. There are an undue concentration of African-Americans in N Mpls.

dlw

YAWN

I’m not surprised at all. Minneapolis is a city made up of people who like to think of themselves as so progressive but they have such a huge racist mentality everywhere. Every white person I met there acted as though “North Minneapolis” was such a scary, awful, crime-ridden place and the only reason for it is that it’s not full of white people. No matter where I went, when I mentioned I lived in North Minneapolis, they always commented on it being so so scary and bad with crime. I walked all over north Minneapolis, never had any problems ever but white people just love to consider it as such a bad place. Nevermind all the crime, shootings, prostitutes, and whatever else happening in South Minneapolis but that’s a “white” area.

There is a reason that “white flight” happened in Minneapolis back in the 60′s and 70′s and for someone to try and defend the racism there as though it’s because of “black immigrants” lol, that is simply not true.

wow, i was thinking about moving up there. I have a college degree, but they are that racist; then never mind.

Well- I really dislike these findings because as a general consensus, it’s pretty much known that our welfare programs are off the charts good and a lot of poor people come up here to abuse the Minnesota system. I would quit feeling sorry for these people, they come here to leech off the system! They’re all from Chicago. Some of them of course are hardworking individuals but this scam put forth puts out a bad name for anyone else. They didn’t come here for a better life, they came here to get welfare! All these Chicagoans say, “you say welfare, we say reparations!” Most of the african americans in our community come from Chi-town. Hey, my own aunt did this little number up as well! However, she’s native and had diabetes and legitimately needed help but she came here because the programs are better. How’s them apples? Sorry, the truth hurts.

So, get it they’re unemployed on purpose, and they’re not minnesotan natives.

I have to agree with owlz. I know at least one s mpls so called”leftist activist” who loves to badmouth north mpls, and I don’t even want to talk about what I have heard some people in public education say.