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2016 Postmortem

WhiteTara

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2. I used to own a factory and employed

Reply to wellst0nev0ter (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 07:14 PM

Dec 2016

about 30 people. I had white and POC workers. If we ever needed overtime, the POC hands would wave and the white faces would be down in the table. I found POC had greater interest in the success of the company and we worked hard to compensate the people who created the wealth of our company.

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Whites lost 700,000 jobs over past nine years [View all] wellst0nev0ter Dec 2016 OP

Do you interpret this data as meaning whites lost jobs to minorities? David__77 Dec 2016 #1

But apparently they did not get a net gain from the job growth wellst0nev0ter Dec 2016 #3

Isn't this, at least in part, a function of demographic change? David__77 Dec 2016 #4

I used to own a factory and employed WhiteTara Dec 2016 #2

What are whites willing to do? yallerdawg Dec 2016 #5

the racial breakdown matters less than the fact that most new jobs suck. one person can't live TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #6

poor whites in rural areas... stillcool Dec 2016 #7

According to that chart, whites still have the overwhelming majority of the jobs. yardwork Dec 2016 #8

yeap, that and no statement on how many jobs PoC lost uponit7771 Dec 2016 #9

there is a fatal flaw in this analysis: it takes no account of changing demographics JustinL Dec 2016 #10