Blacks have highest unemployment rate for College Grads in 2009
How does this make you all feel? Do you believe that Blacks are discriminated against when applying for jobs?
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I don’t know if I’d say they were discriminated against. Sure, race COULD have something to do with it. But there’s not enough info tied to this graph to make any argument whether they were or were not discriminated against.
Moreover, according to this graph, Asian and Black graduates were hovering around the same percentage in 2007, but 2 years later Asian graduates are 2.2% more employed than Blacks.
What happened in two years, that Asians were able to make that gap increase and not Blacks? Could it be people are more racist against Blacks? Or less racist towards Asians? Doubtful.
A definite argument that could be made is that perhaps those black applicants weren’t as qualified, and that can be attributed to the legacy that slavery and the oppression afterwards left.
–Hafiz NR
December 1, 2010 at 3:29 am
This is where the statistics were talked about and the opinion of the author that posted them. I however, agree with you on the fact that I believe it is the qualification and drive of the interviewee not their skin color.
Among college-educated, African Americans hardest hit by unemployment
Algernon Austin
April 22, 2009
by Algernon Austin
Fifteen months into a deep recession, college-educated white workers still had a relatively low unemployment rate of 3.8% in March of this year. The same could not be said for African Americans with four-year degrees. The March 2009 unemployment rate for college-educated blacks was 7.2%—almost twice as high as the white rate—and up 4.5 percentage points from March 2007, before the start of the current recession (see chart). Hispanics and Asian Americans with college degrees were in between, both with March 2009 unemployment rates of 5%.
Some argue that the problem of joblessness among African Americans can be solved by education alone, but at every education level the unemployment rate for blacks exceeds that of whites. The disparities among the college-educated and other evidence strongly suggest that even if the black educational attainment distribution was exactly the same as the white distribution, blacks would still have a higher unemployment rate than whites. Without a renewed commitment to anti-discrimination in employment and job creation in black communities, high rates of black joblessness will likely persist.1
December 1, 2010 at 3:33 am