Coming home from Mobile recently, I got routed through Charlotte. Charlotte is about 34% black. In cities with that kind of demographics, the airport employees are typically black. In Mobile, which is 50% black, all of the employees of both the airport proper and the tenant businesses are black. I could be off by one or two, but I can't recall more than a handful of non-blacks.
At CLT, it was 50-50 black and Hispanic. I didn't have time for a full statistical data collection walk, but I saw a good amount of two concourses and noted something interesting. There was very little racial mingling in the tenant businesses. The employees were either Hispanic or black.
In the businesses where the employees were Hispanic, behind the counter they mostly spoke Spanish to each other.
Of the more than 50% of American, black high school graduates who are not proficient at English, about 0.1% of them speak Spanish. That's close enough to zero to be zero.
All of those young black adults are effectively locked out of the airport jobs where the other employees are Hispanic.
Here are the demographics of Charlotte over time.
The Democrats are on the record as having opened the border in order to make whites a minority in the US. They are only incommoding whites politically. In terms of job opportunities, they are hitting blacks square in the chest.
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I was about to say something about whether you actually think that illegal immigrants can get away with passing through security every day to work in airport jobs, but really, this is all beside the point.
The point, which you used to make quite regularly, and that I agree with, is that the US government is running up a completely unconscionable debt that is going to destroy the country if it keeps on. And whenever there is any serious discussion about it, the politicians look for something, anything else to use as a distraction. Whether it is a convenient "foreign crisis", or some manufactured domestic one. A favorite one is to look for some minority group that is unpopular, and that makes up less than about 5% of the population. Then one party starts attacking them, while the other party makes a big show of defending them, and in the resulting hoorah the national debt kind of gets forgotten about. Right now it is immigrants, but it doesn't really matter as long as (a) some segment of the population dislikes them, and (b) the group itself doesn't have enough votes to swing elections.
I am not convinced that any of these groups are any real threat compared to the buget deficit, and I am alternately furious and terrified that we are going to collapse under a mountain of debt while bickering and squabbling over things that don't actually matter.
That's an interesting branch, but the point I'm trying to make is ... what, sociological? Absent the debt, blue-collar blacks would have the same problem. As the language spoken by the entry-level workforce transitions to Spanish, the blacks get locked out of those jobs.
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