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Detroit boasted the high concentration of black middle class in the country due to the AUTO INDUSTRY.
I also mention HENRY FORD liken himself to ONE of our ANCESTORS. So how did it HELP US...
I REMEMBERED a STORY of a BLACK FORD AUTOWORKER who made a MILLION DOLLAR contribution to a HBCU from his HARD EARNINGS. HE saved his MONEY for YOUNG PEOPLE to experience EDUCATION from US.
Many of US APPLAUDED such efforts. A HUMBLE BLACK MAN who REALIZED SUCH OPPORTUNITY helping the NEXT GENERATION to REALIZE THEIRS.
Now CHECK this OUT...
I wouldnt BLAME TOTALLY the HIGH ROLLING BANK NOTE JAPANESE but the BIG WHIG GOVERNMENT POLITICIAN who COURT SUCH.
Both DO NOT LIKEN themselves to OUR ANCESTORS nor to the PRESENT GENERATION of US. What HAPPENED?
I can SEE A YOUNG BLACK MALE given an OPPORTUNITY at these NEW FACILITIES can HELP OUR COMMUNITY in MORE WAYS than ONE. But it seems JAIL TIME for US is better says the NATION.
That's the NATION at WORK.
Oh well.
I also mention HENRY FORD liken himself to ONE of our ANCESTORS. So how did it HELP US...
Automobiles in African American history
by William Reed
The car is more than just “a ride”. No industry has had a greater impact on our daily lives than the automobile. Where we live, work and travel have all been profoundly shaped by the automotive industry.
Over the last 100 years, the automobile industry has played a crucial role in the history of African Americans. Since the early days, blacks were both producers and consumers of the car. The car brought geographic and economic mobility to blacks. It became a symbol of black economic aspirations and one of Black Americans’ major employers.
In 1914, Henry Ford paid workers $5 per day and prompted the movement of millions of blacks to the urban north. America’s first major “equal opportunity employer,” Ford reached out to African American communities, churches and newspapers to find factory workers. Automobile industry wages enabled black workers to buy homes, own cars, save money and send their children to college. In metropolitan areas with big auto plants, black auto workers were the most visible leaders of labor organizations, churches, and civil rights groups.
Auto work provided blacks with resources that few other jobs did, in turn they invested their resources back into community organizations and projects. As late as 1970 one in every five Big Three workers was black. By the turn of the 21st Century, auto work became less a source of employment for blacks. As Chrysler, Ford and GM lost market share, the industry workforce has shrunk to drastic lows.
I REMEMBERED a STORY of a BLACK FORD AUTOWORKER who made a MILLION DOLLAR contribution to a HBCU from his HARD EARNINGS. HE saved his MONEY for YOUNG PEOPLE to experience EDUCATION from US.
Many of US APPLAUDED such efforts. A HUMBLE BLACK MAN who REALIZED SUCH OPPORTUNITY helping the NEXT GENERATION to REALIZE THEIRS.
Now CHECK this OUT...
More blacks losing car jobs
Study finds they're losing ground in industry as factories close, new plants open in mostly white areas.
Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News
African-American autoworkers have taken a bigger hit than whites and Latinos as U.S. automakers have cut tens of thousands of jobs in recent decades and new factories have sprouted up in the rural south, according to a study released Thursday by a Washington-based think tank.
From 1970 to 2006, blacks have lost the equivalent of about 120,000 auto jobs, given the current size of the work force, said John Schmitt, economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and co-author of the report.
Whites and Latinos are losing ground, too, but the percentage drop is far greater among blacks, the study finds. In 1979, 2.1 percent of all African-American workers in the United States had a job related to the assembly of cars and trucks. At that time, most auto plants were in urban areas in the Midwest such as Detroit and Flint.
By 2006, with more than two dozen foreign-owned plants now operating in the South, the percentage of black workers assembling vehicles fell by one-third to 1.3 percent of all blacks in America, according to the study.
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I wouldnt BLAME TOTALLY the HIGH ROLLING BANK NOTE JAPANESE but the BIG WHIG GOVERNMENT POLITICIAN who COURT SUCH.
Both DO NOT LIKEN themselves to OUR ANCESTORS nor to the PRESENT GENERATION of US. What HAPPENED?
I can SEE A YOUNG BLACK MALE given an OPPORTUNITY at these NEW FACILITIES can HELP OUR COMMUNITY in MORE WAYS than ONE. But it seems JAIL TIME for US is better says the NATION.
That's the NATION at WORK.
Oh well.