Quote:
Originally posted by Steeltrap
About a year or so ago, I was looking at a book from the Rand Institute about immigration in California and it flat out suggested that employers' preferences and prejudices played a role in the disappearance of AfAms in blue-collar jobs. I don't completely agree with that point -- skilled blue-collar jobs dying out affected more than us, IMO.
|
Minimizing the number of blue collar jobs has had a significant impact on African Americans. If African Americans couldn't get any other job, they could always count on the blue collar ones. Now, we have foreigners, particularly illegal aliens, taking many of the jobs (that some say blacks refused to do, anyway...such as doing construction in 100 degree weather).