CashmereThoughts
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They only care about “foundational” black folks. You know, “regular black”
Aside from mass deportation, what policy does Trump have that benefits black people?
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I Really Mean It
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plenty of black people would be deported right alongside hispanics, and the ones left behind would still encounter high unemployment that would only continue to rise as the workforce becomes more automated and black labor - which has always been largely relegated to low skilled jobs in the service industry - is rendered inconsequential.
much like the protagonist in ralph ellison’s ‘invisible man,’ black people are becoming non-entities thanks to automation.
trump’s mass deportation plan is just one step in our eventual liquidation.
Jesus H. Christ
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Mass deportations not only would hurt black people but poor white people too. That's how ridiculous stupid that idea is.
MoshpitMazi
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Mass deportations hurt black people too
Voice of Reason
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Born2BKing
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Voice of Reason
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They only care about “foundational” black folks. You know, “regular black”
You damn right. Unfortunately Black immigrants in recent years have create "division"
People are frustrated, they feel worse off than they did 4 years ago and believe economic opportunities will be better under Trump. Also many Blacks dont like the direction the Democratic Party is going simply put.
Trump also polls as more competent when dealing with inflation as well as the current global conflicts we are having right now.
Even when talking "economy" I haven't heard Black people define any particular policies that Trump has over Kamala
Trump also polls as more competent when dealing with inflation as well as the current global conflicts we are having right now.
Even when talking "economy" I haven't heard Black people define any particular policies that Trump has over Kamala
SupaDupaFresh
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As you mentioned, unskilled labor jobs will be there for them, but them shyts don't pay enough for any black man or woman to want to hop on that train.
Mass deportation would be ruinous to the economy. We would get a rude awakening like during the pandemic when it turned out the most important people
in the economy were those working those low-wage jobs. No one is going to clamor for the kind of jobs where the wages were usually paid under the table,
the work was sporadic, or you are working to the bone and still not making ends meet.
You know these coli niccas love taking their cues from white supremacists and calling it "pro-FBA" nowadays.
Voice of Reason
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kevin arnold
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Please explain to me trumps economic policy on slapping tariffs on everything and how that will help with inflation
Born2BKing
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Brehs don't want them chicken plant jobs.
Why the hell you think they hiring Mexicans straight over the border? have some respect for yourself and your people. Voice of Reason
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Brehs don't want them chicken plant jobs.
That's a lie. If you live in Mississippi you want that job.
https://archive.is/tmHqv
MORTON, Miss. — Juan Grant strode into the Koch Foods chicken processing plant for his new job on a Wednesday morning, joining many other African-Americans in a procession of rubber boots, hairnets and last cigarettes before the grind.
At 20, Mr. Grant was too young to remember the days of a nearly all-white work force in Mississippi’s poultry industry, or the civil rights boycotts and protests that followed. He was too young to have seen how white workers largely moved on after that, leaving the business of killing, cutting and packing to African-Americans.
He did not know the time before Hispanic workers began arriving in the heart of chicken country by the thousands, recruited by plant managers looking to fill low-paying jobs in an expanding industry.
But Mr. Grant clearly remembered Aug. 7, the day the Trump administration performed sweeping immigration raids on seven chicken plants in central Mississippi. He remembered the news flashing on his phone: 680 Hispanic workers arrested. He remembers seeing an opportunity.
“I figured there should be some jobs,” he said.
He figured right.
The raids were believed to be the largest statewide immigration crackdown in recent history and a partial fulfillment of President Trump’s vow to remove millions of undocumented workers from the country. The impact on Mississippi’s immigrant community has been devastating. For nonimmigrant workers, the aftermath has forced them into a personal reckoning with questions of morality and economic self-interest: The raids brought suffering, but they also created job openings.
Some believe that the undocumented workers had it coming. “If you’re somewhere you ain’t supposed to be, they’re going to come get you,” said a worker named Jamaal, who declined to give his full name because Koch Foods had not authorized him to speak. “That’s only right.”
But there was also Shelonda Davis, 35, a 17-year veteran of the plant. She has seen many workers — of all backgrounds — come and go. But she was horrified that so many of her Hispanic colleagues were rounded up. Some of them, she said, wanted to work so badly that they tried to return the next day.
“I’m glad that I see my people going to work,” she said of her fellow African-Americans. “But the way they came at the Hispanic race, they act like they’re killing somebody. Still, they were only working, you know?”
Some of the new replacement hires also felt conflicted. While the roundup “gave the American people their jobs back,” said Cortez McClinton, 38, a former construction worker who was hired at the plant hours after the raids, “how they handle the immigration part is that they’re still separating kids from their families.”
Devontae Skinner, 21, denounced the raids one recent morning while finishing up his first turn on the night shift. “Everybody needs a job, needs to work. Provide for their families.”
Then there was Mr. Grant, only two years out of high school and still finding his way in the world. He said it felt good to be earning $11.23 an hour, even if the new job entailed cutting off necks and pulling out guts on a seemingly endless conveyor of carcasses. It was about $4 better, he said, than what he used to earn at a Madison County cookie factory.
But he also called the raids “cruel” and “mean.” There were moments when the necks and guts and ambivalence and guilt all mixed together so that he wondered whether he wanted to stick with the job.
“It’s like I stole it,” he said, “and I really don’t like what I stole.”
Born2BKing
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fukked up part is nobody will even say that those jobs will benefit white people. Just black and brown folks because thats the level we on huh.
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In the grand scheme, mass deportations ain't gonna help Black people either unless you think the White man/woman gonna suddenly “choose you” because he, nor she ain't got the “poor little immigrants” to choose from. If that's your line of thinking, well, shyt, you don't know the white man/woman then.
They'll still find a way to still not give your ass a job, through other means. Racism and prejudices have more weight as to why Black people suffer from unemployment rates.
They'll still find a way to still not give your ass a job, through other means. Racism and prejudices have more weight as to why Black people suffer from unemployment rates.