UPSG
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ORIGINAL: 4u2spoil I don't think you intended to be offensive, but you're making a lot of assumptions which is why people are taking offense. You assume that because the OP is interested in black guys they'll all come from the inner city. Black person does not equal inner city person. It's like me pointing to Jeffrey Dahmer or the Columbine teens and saying "watch out for those white guys from the 'burbs. Girls think it's what they see on MTV with pool parties and fun douchebags, but you'll end up in a freezer or shot between the eyes." Exercising good judgement and common sense doesn't change depending on your racial preference. quote:
ORIGINAL: UPSG Had you read and understood my original post - or at least my latter explanations of what I was intending to try and say - you would have grasped that I was partly just offering advise for Little A to be cautious because she seemed to me to not have the cynicism and hardness etched into her face like many people that spend many years in the inner-cities (or at least people that have lots of life experience that builds distrust and even hardness). And I'll point out that I have already acknowledged that I probably have misjudged Little A in that respect. Fair enough. But as a non-hostile FYI: Source: UW-Milwaukee Center for Economic Development. quote:
II. Race and Joblessness in Milwaukee: A Comparative Perspective, 2002-2005 Despite modest improvements between 2002-2005, the rate of black male joblessness in the Milwaukee region remains near the highest of Northeast-Midwest metropolitan areas, and in 2005 the racial gap in male joblessness was, with the exception of metro Pittsburgh, the widest among "Frostbelt" metropolitan areas. In 2002, Milwaukee registered the highest working-age black male jobless rate among the 15 "Frostbelt" metropolitan areas against which we benchmarked Milwaukee's performance; in 2005, Milwaukee recorded the second highest black male jobless rate among these regions. The gap in Milwaukee separating white and black rates of male joblessness, which was 27.8 percentage points in 2002, the highest in the Frostbelt in 2002, declined to 23.0 points in 2005, which nevertheless placed Milwaukee second worst among our benchmark regions. Milwaukee's ranking on these indicators is somewhat better when comparisons are at the city level, but city-to-city comparisons are somewhat misleading, because in metro Milwaukee, unlike elsewhere in the Frostbelt, there has been virtually no suburbanization of the working-age black male population. Table 2: Black Male Jobless Rates in Selected Metropolitan Areas: 2002-2005 (percentage of working-age (16-64) black males either unemployed or out of the labor force) 2002 2005 Baltimore N/A Boston 28.3% Minneapolis N/A Baltimore 31.6% Cincinnati N/A Indianapolis 34.4% Indianapolis 30.8% Kansas City 34.9% Pittsburgh 31.9% Minneapolis 35.9% Cleveland 32.3% Cincinnati 36.3% Boston 36.4% Philadelphia 39.7% Detroit 39.0% St. Louis 40.1% Kansas City 39.1% Buffalo 40.4% Philadelphia 39.7% Chicago 42.1% Chicago 41.1% Detroit 42.7% St. Louis 42.8% Cleveland 42.7% Buffalo 45.7% Milwaukee 43.1% Milwaukee 46.5% Pittsburgh 48.3% Average 38.7% Average 39.1% III. Black Male Joblessness in Milwaukee, 1970-2005: Historical Development and Explanatory Factors The rise in joblessness among working-age black males in Milwaukee during the past 35 years has been relentless, increasing substantially at each census measurement until reaching a staggering 51.5 percent in 2003 (before improving to 44.1 percent by 2005). Perhaps even more striking has been the growth in joblessness among prime working-age black males in Milwaukee since 1970. Joblessness among males between the ages of 25-54 is particularly revealing of the state of the local labor market; we're much less likely to see, in this age group, potential workers voluntarily absent from the labor market because of schooling, retirement, or homemaking. The jobless rate for prime working-age black males was 15.2 percent in 1970, relatively modest by historical standards, albeit double the rate for white city residents and almost quadruple the rate for white suburbanites. However, as has been the case for all working-age black males, joblessness among prime-working age black males has grown ceaselessly in Milwaukee since 1970, peaking at an astonishing 40.8 percent in 2003, before improving to 34.6 percent by 2005.
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