In chicago a major highway is being totally redone, and I guess they didnt hire enough black people.?
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The unemployment rate among blacks is very high. I can see why they are upset.
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Actually it is a lot less than it used to be. I am 58 and I remember segregation and white people talking about Negroes and "colored people" in a derogatory way. Today a lot of those same groups of people have black friends or work with black people and there is a lot less of that than there used to be. Yes, there are people, usually of a lower socioeconomic class who are still acting that way because they see educated black people getting better jobs than they do and don't want to admit it is because that person is smarter and better educated and they want to bring them below them so they have someone to look down on. They don't want to admit that the problem is themselves.
952547
Races other than blacks & whites need to step up & make some noises. Black people wouldn't have gotten this far without speaking up on prejudice & racial injustice. It's worth dying for.
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Believe it or not most of the "earth" was reused in the actual construction going to build on/off ramps, fill in and compacted in areas that were to wet for the most part.(special note most of the expressway is 6 feet below the level of Lake Michigan)
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Shes perhaps the nappiest looking black woman  Iver ever seen.  How about getting the chompers fixed too?  You could drive a VW thru that gap and then get lost in the mop she calls hair.  be proud black folk....shes representing your district!
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I was born and raised in The Chicago land area [ white bub's] My one question was why did Oprah go to Ga. when there was SOOO much racism in her own back yard! The whole area is like that . Hate is a way of life up there.
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It's called racial profiling. It's illegal, but it happens, and not just to minorities. I'm white and was driving in a predominately black neighborhood and was asked the same question!
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Oh man let me tell you.....where YOU live, may be a certain amount of ethnic originated people....but, where I live?.....mostly caucasion, as I am, and they can't drive either....I live in the country....work one night a week...on a deserted country road, two lane, people will ride with their brights on, click them off, only, when they have reached my vehicle, and have blinded the hell out of me....NO ONE HERE where I live in the bible belt America, know how to turn their turn signal light on BEFORE they are gonna turn, they slam their brakes and then turn the turn signal on, IF they turn it on at all!!!!!! I live in White America, Southern region America, and they DO NOT KNOW HOW TO F%^$# DRIVE, to be at the very least!!!! Courteous to the other driver!!!  Everyone is in such a big rush to get wherever they need to go, with no regard to the other people on the road....I AM PREJIDUCE, AGAINST "STUPID" people, I don't care what they are, if they are a holes, they are a holes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There is no doubt that negros and women are not treated equally in the US labor force. But forcing a company to hire a set amount of each is crazy. The job should go to the person who is most qualified.
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Life is what you make it to be.  There are quite a few well to do Hispanics in my neighborhood who worked for what they wanted.  It may be a struggle but you will eventually get just strive hard for it.  And to the dumb A S S above me with the IGNORANT response.  Check your facts sweetheart....this land was STOLEN from mostly Hispanics and Native Americans and as a Black American I found your answer to be offensive.  Why don't you take your A S S back to where you came from before you stole this land and claimed it as your own!!!!!!!!!!!
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Blacks who commit crimes usually have a lower income level than white counterparts so cannot afford good attorneys. It all starts there. To fix this, the first thing would be to truly eliminate racism. And then promote economic development in impoverished comunities, and community and personal pride. Education would help, too. \n\nThe state won't do it - it starts with the individual. People feel hopeless and stop caring about themselves, their families, their communities.
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Actually, I wouldn't mind helping, but my state has already changed most of the roadside reflectors to white. And since it's the states that do the highway building and localities that do the signage, writing to the national government won't do much good. Unless you can get overwhelming support to withhold highway funds, like they did with the drinking age.
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Ray Nagin wont like this answer because I am white and older than he is. Tis true he had a hard job after the hurricane, and for that he should get big props. But after hearing his thinly veiled racial "chocolate city" references as well as other citizens of New Orleans at the mikes, maybe he should solicit help from those americans whose color matches his chocolate city remarks. oh yeah he shuffles and says gosh i was just joking, but he got caught and was trying to slide it off. Come On Ray Nagin, your city needs a really dynamite leader now- quit trying to play the race card.
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there are 2 sides to every story. and the way you hear blacks tell it. we were not doing anything. just standing around. which most likely is BS.. you don’t know the full circumstances to the stories. .. those blacks were probably packing heat and fired at the officers. but then again. as I hear the blacks tell it in here. they don’t know ANYONE who would ever do that. so I guess it must never happen.,, police just don’t walk in and start firing. Like the strip club. Oh yeah they just walked in and started firing. The blacks in there of course were not doing a single thing. Probably sitting around singing amazing grace or something right?? Hmmm.. I think not. Its just so funny to hear the blacks on here talk about how people can be prejudiced or racist towards blacks. Look in my 20 plus years experience in working  and living among AMERICAN blacks. The only people who give blacks a bad name is BLACKS.. you do such a good job on your own. And then act like you had not done a thing. I have not come across another culture filled with some of the most victim mentality as well as lazy ill mannered give me a hand out group.. with shakedown leaders like Jesse Race Whore Jackson. .. which adds to Americas perception of blacks. I have friends living in Asia who witnessed all the well mannered blacks in Katrina who were SHOOTING at the rescuers as they tried to save them. The opinion of my friends overseas was. Why are they all so stupid and ignorant.  Not ALL blacks fall into the previous categories. I know some very bright . hard working . responsible very nice ones. But these are the ones who are the exceptions unfortunately... you are not going to find all those dregs who truly DO fit the black mold come in here and dispute it. cause there are so many others that come to their rescue and allow them to carrry on their low life acts..
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Very busy. Tough trouble to get jobs and homes sometimes because of the population, that's why they call it the "Windy City"
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Racism is everywhere.  In the south, it's turned more from people of color, to immigrants.
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They had to become politically correct.  Since not everybody can afford a butler, they had to remove the butler.