Al Sharpton believes that Republicans cutting back on government jobs is the reason unemployment in Black and Latino communities is stagnant because, as he puts it, Blacks are disproportionately in the public sector. So his reasoning is that we need bigger government to solve the problem of high Black and Latino unemployment.

Anyone insulted yet? Because the inference he’s making is that blacks don’t really stand a chance in the private sector on their own, that they need government jobs so they can get hired though a system of nepotism or something. Or else they need government coercion in the private sector through contracts and bailouts.

Listen:

One of the reasons that I think people do not understand that unemployment has gone down and in some cases black unemployment and Latino’s has remained stagnant, is over the last thirty two months Dr. Hutchinson, they’ve increased jobs and found jobs – unemployment has gone down in the private sector. What has not gone down is [unemployment] in the public sector and blacks in particular are disproportionately in the public sector.

One of the reasons those jobs have gone down or have remained down is one, the Republicans are cutting a lot of the agencies where we are the employees of government jobs – government employees, and a lot of those jobs go to governors and mayors who also have had cutbacks. So what we’ve got to do – and we addressed this to the President – is take on these governors and mayors as well as the private sector on why the private sector is getting all these contracts and bailouts and not hiring and correcting the disproportionate amount of their employment does not touch our community and have the President and them support us in that.

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irrelevantinMD
irrelevantinMD

Al Sharpton's argument about a racist America is defeated by his own success. It proves, without any doubt whatsoever, you can be the most ignorant, illliterate jackass in the room and still make lot's of money because America is full of ignorant, illiterate jackasses.

david r
david r

Lets be fare here before we throw stones at radical Al.

As a retired New York City government employee and a Latino. I can tell you for a fact that what the reverend is saying here is correct when he mentions that the majority of government workers happen to be minorities of Black and Latino descent, especially in the big cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

That they depend on the government for their employment is also true being that most of those jobs depends little on experience and education. Some of those government jobs doesn't even require a high school diploma or GED.

In many cases most of the people that have worked for government has done so because it was the easy way out of poverty, the jobs were guaranteed, and were protected by civil service law. They were granted great benefits, full medical coverage for the entire family, and 5 weeks guaranteed vacations. The wages were very low at the start of employment, but many of us knew they would go up eventually as our government unions fought for better contractual wages. The government coffers with the collected tax revenues from private and commercial enterprises would eventually increase providing us the raises incrementally as the years passed.

This is the reality and it will continue as long as the governments provide these jobs with just a high school or GED diploma, and little to no experience. And in most big cities throughout the United States the Democratic party runs the municipalities and encourage minorities into government sector employment for which their participation guarantees their power over the electorate and creates a huge voting block the Republicans can't overcome.

leftwinglooney
leftwinglooney

Does anyone listen to this Chester. I doubt it. That is why he is on MSNBC

Landscaper
Landscaper

Mr. Rev, your last 8-5 paying JOB was when and what?

Suzyqpie
Suzyqpie

"The poor are the human shields that government uses to grow governmet," quote

Dr T Sowell. Note, please, Dr Sowell, identified no political party. In closing one more Dr Sowell quote, "The government treats the wealthy as prey." I have observed that since 0bamacare passed the control freaks of government have become truly predatory. 0bamaCareRobertsTax will inspire their control.

K-Bob
K-Bob

Only Democrats care about skin color.

Al Sharpton loves skin color issues. It makes him a lot of money.

Anna S. Warrick
Anna S. Warrick

Talk about racism. This man takes the top prize for it. If EVERYONE would shut up trying to keep racism alive and live life by the fact that we are all human and treat everyone as such, life would be so much better. No job should be decided by color, sex, etc. it should be decided by the one with the best education or work experience and pay should be done the same way. Where is the rule stating that a male should get higher pay than a woman, or that you should hire a minority over others? Seems like that is just the stupid government putting their noses into the workforce and we all know how bad our government is. So why listen to any of them?

JohnWest
JohnWest

How about if I complain that the reason so many white people are not employed in well-paying government jobs is because our racist leaders are intent on hiring all the black and brown people they can. It's simple, they obviously hate white people. What do you call that? Earth population has only 9% white people. We are a persecuted minority.

JohnWest
JohnWest

C'mon, Fat Al Sharpton is an imbecile, why do you even bother reporting on him. He is nothing until you put his ugly mug up on your site. And why do so many black people work in government jobs anyway? Don't tell me ... no one else would hire their lazy butts.

LiveFreeOrDieAmerica
LiveFreeOrDieAmerica

Al "Not So" Sharp ton again opening his big mouth connected to his small brain and making both facts evident.

NJK
NJK

Lindsey Graham to the rescue. Look what he had to say.

South Carolina's Lindsey Graham says he's "willing to generate revenue" by steps such as capping tax deductions, which he says would most affect upper-income Americans. But he says he won't agree to higher taxes — a position shared by most Republicans in Congress.

Can someone explain to me, how this isn't raising taxes, oh excuse me, revenue. I'm tired of having my intelligence insulted by them thinking they can change the term, or using a sleazy way of raising revenue.

Hey, Graham, stop saying revenue. Use the real word. People are on to all of you. LIARS!

Patmajek
Patmajek

Time for a reality check Al. Blacks and Hispanics are losing their jobs, and will continue to do so, because they re-elected King Hussein as their beloved imperialistic leader. And I for one hope that any employer that is faced with making layoff decisions dump the Obama voters (and that includes many white women) first and retain all the patriotic conservatives. It is only right that those who voted for handouts over jobs should pay the price. Elections have consequences.

aposematic
aposematic

Sharpton, the dullest butter knife in the drawer, must have no clue which Party has been in charge for the past six years.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

It's Sunday. Guess who is a panelist on Meet the Depressed? Rev Al! Look how far NBC is falling.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

I don't think this man has ever uttered a single logical sentence in his life.

When is HE going to stop being a racist?

K-Bob
K-Bob

When he finally honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. instead of corrupting it.

Matthew Sullivan
Matthew Sullivan

How about claim some personal responsibility for once. Stop blaming everyone else. The only one holding the black man down is the black man. The only one holding Hispanics down is the Hispanic man. The only one holding white trash down is himself. The only one hurting the Democrat is him or herself. Please grow the heck up. We are sick of hearing it.

charliewillson
charliewillson

Just a matter of time.. The white men in the country will wake up, eventually. Then, the proverbial you know what will hit the fan. Just a matter of time for this to happen. White men have been castrated.. sent to the sofa to watch the ball games.. the women, whose misery index is off the charts, are working every day, underpaid, continuously bickering with the back stabbing other miserable women "out there", and then.. the poor creatures come home from work, bake cakes, clean house, and wash dishes..

charliewillson
charliewillson

Simple logic.. Qualification. Ask an ordinary, regular.. private citizen, black, WHO their Congressional representative is? Some men will know, but only a few. The black women can almost NEVER answer the question. That said, they CAN tell you what you need to know to get food stamps, or to add yourself to the trough of other such unjust and unfair, anti-American Free Enterprise, hand out programs. We had a bill board sign on one of the main Freeways coming in and out of Atlanta, providing a tel. number for help and assistance, for blacks, of course, in getting on one of the many handout programs established by Congress, and you know who, as yet another means of "vote buying", "pandering". UNLESS the white men open their eyes and become actively involved in their country, TAKE THEIR COUNTRY BACK, then soon, very soon, there will be no more recognizable Unites States of America. Veterans. Do any of you EVEN know that only one per-cent (1%) of Americans have ever worn the uniform?? Hello? History is not even taught in the public school system now. Pre-schoolers, 5 year olds, are being taught, in the first two weeks of class in the public school system, Marxist Communism. The doctrine being, "From each according to his ability, To each according to his need". This is BEING TAUGHT in class rooms of the Public School Systems now. UNLESS the people of this country TAKE THEIR COUNTRY BACK, soon.. sooner than later, there will be not much worth having and investing in that remains.. I am shoveling sand against the tide in this. I know this. Americans are following along like ducks behind the Greeks, who did essentially the same things, resulting in the loss of their nation. Now.. apathetic and non-caring Americans are doing virtually the same things. I give up.

Philo Beddoe
Philo Beddoe

Ok Al, what's your plan after all the blacks and latino's are employed by the govt and they still make up the majority of prison inmates?

Nadine Faber
Nadine Faber

Again, blaming others. Never able to accept the "responsibility" of Obama's policies and regulations as the driving force behind growing numbers of unemployment, private section shutting down, continued housing foreclosures with the higher taxes coming to further cause the decline and drop in wages as the new year comes in a short few weeks, just to name a few. I don't believe for one minute that the House and Senate or especially the president will come to a real agreement that is in the best interest of the American People or our Nation. He is bound to destroy our economy any way he can. The health care law is one that was meant to strip people of their rights to control their medical decisions and forced to pay for procedures and things they don't need nor want. Get between their doctors and make decisions for US because THEY THINK THAT AMERICANS ARE TOO STUPID TO DO IT THEMSELVES!! Just like our taxes dollars, they think they know how to spend our money better than we do. Right! Look at the Post Office, VA's hospital and care system, DMV Office, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security (which they keep stealing from and will never be able to pay back), the BS between the House and Senate along with a president who continues to divide the country so nothing for US gets done. They are well off and don't see the problems we face because they don't face eviction, unemployment, inability to get food or health care... responsibility of and blaming others for crazy reasons for events like huge unemployment in various cultures goes right back to obama and they know it. They are angry too because if all thirty states refuse to set up the exchanges, then obamacare falls because they need the states to cooperate in order to get their "special interest group law" or obamacare to enacted like they want. I hope they hold on and don't cave in at all.

Edward Zielinski
Edward Zielinski

Check it out and see what the Liberals gave to those who voted for them.

So, doing a little research on Obamacare to answer a difficult question. "what if I employ 50 more employees but many or all are married and covered by their spouses health insurance?" I think I have the answer but along the way discovered this. If a SINGLE one of your employees gets help from the government with their health insurance, you pay the $2K penalty not just for that person, but for your total fulltime headcount (employee count - 30 times $2,000). To prevent that government rebate from occuring, you have to make sure your plan's premium to the employee doesn't exceed 9.5% of their household income. So if you pay them $10 an hour ($20,000 per year) and get them the average health plan for an individual (just under $5,000 but lets round to 5K), you have to make sure that premium is less than $200 a month. Which mean you cough up the other $215 per month. It boils down to this, a 13% tax. So you want to pay your employee $10, it'll be more like $11.30 an hour. Now add the 6.2% you are on the hook for social security and 1.45% for medicare. Now you're at $12.06 to pay that person 10 an hour. Of course after they lose their %16 to income tax and SS/Medicare they'll only see $8.40. So I pay $12.06, you see $8.40. *Throws hands up in the air*

Edward Zielinski
Edward Zielinski

Not true. It was Liberal Venture Capitalists who owned Hostess.

CLAYCE
CLAYCE

He's an insult to moron mansion!

m0r0
m0r0

This man is a walking talking assault on my intelligence. But he is the man behind the Tawana Brawley lie and has been given a forum on television. He's a disgrace.

Marsha Bowers Langdon
Marsha Bowers Langdon

This old man really needs to get a real job......He is one of the reasons that blacks and latinos are of the "you owe me" mindset. I will be glad when he is too old to make trouble any longer. Minorities are their own worst enemies.....all they want to do is whine because they are minorities.....I don't even think most white folks give a damn what color a person is these days.....if they know their stuff and are a good worker.....who cares what color a person is. Thank our government and their stupid laws......that is exactly the reason blacks and minorities act out.

General Lee
General Lee

I guess my answer would be; perhaps minorities shouldn't rely on the government for everything from food stamps to jobs. The government isn't in the business of employing people. Yes, they do employ people as a consequence of performing other responsibilities but it isn't their duty or obligation. This is just more proof of how much minorities depend on the government to carry them from cradle to grave. I wonder if idiot Al realizes how he exposed himself?

Teapartyunobabyyyyyyyyyy
Teapartyunobabyyyyyyyyyy

Al Sharpton is an institutional Racist! A Reverend of Hatred and Ignorance. Al Sharpton is Ignorant anything he says is garbage. Al try's to play it off that hes intellectual and insightful on issues but he can't pull it off....he is Race baiter, hater and very Ignorant!

Hes a coward! He makes me puke on Liberals ughhhhhhhh!!*(

David in MA
David in MA

Has anyone ever looked at the unemployment on a per capita basis, it seems to me that where there are anly about 35 million blacks and probably only 10 million of employment age (the rest are single mom's and illegitmant kids) there are more blacks in jobs than is fair and equal to the rest of American society. Just watch TV and see for yourself, and as for unemployement in the black and hispanic neighborhoods, ya cant's gets a job ifn youze has no edukation.....stop drinking ripple, shootin midnight hoops and knockin uo da b itches and youz just might amount ta soumpin, snowflake! OR, is the free ride worth a low self imige and low self esteem? lazy f*cks!

spidermike
spidermike

Government employment is just another form of welfare. We pay farmers not to grow certain crops, right? So let's just pay federal workers to stay at home so they don't muck up the whole shebang any more than it already is.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

'Latin' is the language of the Romans. The Romans came from Italy. The word 'Latino' means of Latin origin. All of my grandparents were (legal) immigrants, one from Italy. Therefore, by extension, I'm 25% 'Latino'. Since Sharpton seems to think that government employment should be based on race or ethnicity, ya think Sharpton could get could get me a part time job with 'Da Gubment'?

;-) ;-)

Yazz55
Yazz55

Same old psycobabble nonsense.

But useful idiot liberals actually swallow it whole and regurgitate it on command.

CAPT. BUZZ
CAPT. BUZZ

He has to keep his believers on his band wagon happy; he can't blame the black President's administration so his new evil are the Republican's, Governors and Mayor's, a new conspiracy to keep the black man down. It just shows that MSNBC is wasting air time by giving him his own TV show and how one sided they are.

John Q. Jones
John Q. Jones

I'm sorry, but every time I see this idiot, I feel the urge to hurl "cheese & debris" across the room. Nothing this charlatan says has any merit...NOTHING. He's about as articulate as someone reciting the preamble to the Constitution whilest hurling.

flash
flash

Sharpton is a racist lieing hypocrite!!

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

I'll put it more bluntly, he's a 'Race Pump'. He's made a very tidy living on Black victimization.

Orangeone
Orangeone

The real question is whether the Race Pump will be a covered medical expense under ObamaCare like the P...sPump is....

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Sharpton will be as exempt from Obamacare as all of Obama's union pals, the government and his big buck donors are.

Rene Martin
Rene Martin

I haven't heard something this absurd and idiotic since.....Well, since Obama's administration blamed Benghazi on a video. Sharpton every so often has to say something off the wall, just so he doesn't fall out of the media's eye. Which by the way, is his biggest fear.

bobemakk
bobemakk

I just retired from the government, and 75% of the workforce is black and hispanic, so Al is full of crap.

General Lee
General Lee

I agree...I happen to work for a private firm under a government contract and we employ a huge proportion of minorities. You are dead-on. It's so bad in fact, I have a difficult time understand many of them when I talk to them on the phone. To me, communication should be a top priority and here I am, speaking to a minority with an accent so thick I can't understand him and he's an employee of the federal government, not even a contractor!

Old
Old

Allow me to quote Victor Davis Hansen:

"Only in the hyper-racialist America can we take quite distinct Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Chinese third-generation citizens and create from them the artificial rubric “Asian” in their shared antithesis to “white,” or take disparate Cubans and Mexicans and likewise reinvent them as identical Latinos, or take Jamaicans, Ethiopians, and American blacks and call them all “African-Americans” on the similar logic of not being something equally artificial like white — which I guess covers Americans who used to be Greeks, Irish, Armenians, Jews, Poles, and Danes."

Apparently, it is an effective tool used by the left to "gin people up" as they say. Group people together and convince them they are victims.

Pick an imaginary target like "the 1%" or "the Republicans" and get everyone worked up over it.

In this case, actually try to convince people that this artificial group of Americans are victims because, in this fantasy, they can only work for the government.

I don't know why The Reverend Al Sharpton is viewed with any credibility or stature.

Kordane
Kordane

You have identified one of the tools of collectivism. Rather than see people as distinct individuals, the collectivist puts them into tribal groupings, and then pits them against each other in battles over territory, power, resources, etc.

A "mixed economy", as America is right now, is the perfect battleground for the collectivist. Ayn Rand described the mixed economy as: "a country in the process of disintegration, a civil war of pressure-groups looting and devouring one another".

mikeinidaho
mikeinidaho

It takes a total idiot racist to call everyone else racists. What a tool!