Black People : No more DETROITS for US in AMERICA any more...

dustyelbow

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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...


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.
 
Jackson, Mississippi

URL: http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/business/article/0,1426,MCA_440_5390931,00.html
Toyota incentives a done deal

$293 million package zips through Legislature in hours

By Halimah Abdullah
Contact
March 3, 2007

JACKSON -- In just under three hours Friday, lawmakers voted to approve a multimillion incentive package to locate a $1.3 billion auto plant just outside of Tupelo. Not long after, Gov. Haley Barbour signed it into law.

"This plant ... is one of the biggest economic projects in the U.S. this year," Barbour said during a press conference just after the Legislature approved incentive measures.

Legislators proudly donned red Toyota caps and flashing blue buttons to show support of measures that include $293 million to Toyota to pay for roads, water and sewer lines. Local governments would also receive $60 million to acquire land and Toyota's preferred auto suppliers would net $30 million.

Soon after Barbour announced on Tuesday that Toyota chose Mississippi to locate its eighth vehicle assembly plant in the U.S., local residents rejoiced and the political wrangling began. Barbour backed away from his push for a special session and instead worked with House and Senate leadership to address measures during the regular legislative workweek.

The shift was seen by legislative officials as an attempt at compromise between the governor and the two chambers.

However, members of the Delta delegation and many African-American legislators worried that the incentive bills in the Toyota package don't provide enough assurance that poor and minority residents would benefit from the project. Some balked at the secret nature of negotiations among the governor, legislative leadership and the automaker.

"Governor, I too can keep a secret and others can keep a secret," said Rep. Willie Perkins, D-Greenwood. "When we have legislation that involves many who look like me and there are some at the table who don't express views that I have ... well, participation from the Delta and minority participation could have been a little stronger."

Barbour said he saw no need to consider any minority set-asides.

"No, I just don't (see the point)," Barbour said. "We don't have any set-asides with Toyota. There wasn't any need to do that because they have such a good track record."


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Plant positions are expected to pay $20 an hour.

The Toyota plant is part of a growing trend of manufacturers moving to the South. Mississippi already has a Nissan plant and in Alabama there are Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai and Honda plants. There's also a Nissan plant in Tennessee.

"You're in the sweet spot of the auto manufacturing economic zone," Barbour said.
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