Half of young black men unemployed

More than half of young black men wanting work are unemployed and they are twice as likely to be jobless as their white counterparts, new statistics show.

Figures provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in the last quarter of 2011 unemployment among black 16- to 24-year-olds stood at 55.9 per cent, almost double the 28.8 per cent in the same quarter of 2008. The figures, reported last night, contrast with proportion cited by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which considers 22 per cent a more accurate figure because it includes students and other people who are not available for work.

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Permalink Reply by kurt steiner on March 13, 2012 at 2:35pm

Are you an afrocentric black racist? Do you hate white America? (Don't bother answering.)

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Permalink Reply by guest_blog on March 13, 2012 at 2:43pm

Why do you ask? Seems a presumptive conclusion based on a few words and a link.

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Permalink Reply by kurt steiner on March 13, 2012 at 2:47pm

Why do you object? Your questioning my free speech seems a presumptive conclusion based on a few words and a link. Are you afrocentric or do you just want to "slap down that white boy?"

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Permalink Reply by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 13, 2012 at 3:24pm

Hey Kurt, the numbers speak for itself. I recently published an article "Poverty in America" that reinforces Justin's facts and figures. When it comes to the disenfranchised, are you blackaphobic?

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Permalink Reply by kurt steiner on March 13, 2012 at 3:31pm

I am not afraid and I am not a wiggerphobic. So hey Vincent, I have seen phony media statistics used to prove lies before. I saw your spam and marked it down as racist propaganda replicated but not created. Are you a white-hater? Or do you just wish that you were not white?

While I was in college a bunch of guys like you, wearing that blue collar disguise, signed a petition demanding the genocide of the white race. Like you they all pretended that blacks are victims and whites are demons. Most of us are sick of your simplistic hate propaganda.

You ever heard about "facts and figures" lying? Maybe I can educate you?

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Permalink Reply by Vincent L. Guarisco on March 13, 2012 at 3:37pm

Dear Kurt --

I hope you are enjoying this short moment of attention, because i'm sure your membership (at this site) will be short lived if you continue with your trashy remarks.

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Permalink Reply by kurt steiner on March 13, 2012 at 3:47pm

Dont threaten me girly boy. Your remarks are even more trashy and you came looking for a fight. You were getting attention on here with your obsolete "hate whitey" remarks before I ever showed up. I reply because somebody has to stand up for free speech and thought, certainly you do not.

I do not want to be on a site that is politically correct;That has people who are so discriminatory that they suppose that their spammed facts and figures should be treated with the respect that they don't extend to their fellow man. Your sanctimonious platitudes spell racial discrimination as does your "Joe worker" picture.

If my free speech is denied because people like you don't agree with it, then you will have a fight. If I am thrown off here by people like you, then I am not surprised. Only blacks, commies and Moslem typically have free speech in America.

I demand an apology.

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Permalink Reply by Cryptocurrency on March 13, 2012 at 4:03pm

What he is doing is projecting. Projection bias is a defense mechanism recognized by psychologists and other astute observers of human behavior as a tendency to project or associate a subconscious denial of personalized attributes, thoughts and feelings thus ascribing them to other people. The subject of projection imagines that others originate the feelings or ideas that are actually stemming from the individual's subconscious association of self. For instance, accusing someone of being a racist when they are the racist; a white man calling a black man racist when it is the white man that is the true racist hopefully inciting an emotional response stemming from his own subconscious bigotry.