I wasn’t challenging your stats, I just wanted to know where they came from, in order to look for them myself in the future. Thanks for the information.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

Where did you get those stats from?

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

@ewill The high school dropout rate IS a problem. It is not a problem confined strictly to the behavior of students and their parents; the entire system is broken, as I know from half a lifetime of experiences working in and around it. One of the things that will really help is for Black people to regain control of providing education, not just passively putting children into the existing and failing structures (the industrial model for which public education teaches no longer exists in this country, in all reality). That will be another excellent use of the redirection of that trillion dollars, and, excellent models already exist (I have already mentioned Geoffrey Canada; the successes of the Urban Prep Academy also come to mind).

Attitude and work ethic does matter as well; we agree on that. Some Black young people need an adjustment in their thinking on that subject — but there are a great number of hard-working Black young people who need more opportunity — and they are more than sufficient reason to redirect the trillion.

Congratulations on your marriage; I wish you and your wife the best.

Northern_Magnolia,
Black, white, red, blue, green, a lack of education translates into unemployment or low wage jobs. Period. (I love using Period at the end these days…….LOL)
You talk about teen unemployment rate. You should be looking at teen drop out rate.
I would think most blacks 16-19 need an education rather than a job.
Parents need to make their children finish HS.
That doesn’t require any money, just a boot up their stupid asses.
The best advice after education is, drop the black attitude.
I worked for a company as a Christmas seasonal worker long side blacks, and working for a black manager. All the blacks stood around and worked slow. The reason? The pay was minimum wage so they were going to do minimum work. I worked like I owned the company. At the end of the season all the blacks were let go; I was asked to become a permanent employee.
I guess you could say I admire at lest one Asian. I married her.

@ewill — The point of Black people changing our spending habits is not to bring white businesses down. The point is to redirect much of that trillion to build ourselves up, as most communities do in this country — including the Asians that you apparently admire. There is and has been a sizable percentage of Black people doing amazing things in business and education (for your edification: look up Reginald Lewis, Randal Pinket, and Geoffrey Canada as examples; there are many more, but that is a place to start), and Black people can afford, with a trillion dollars to spend yearly, to be able to support such persons and their work, and REPLICATE those successes.

Blacks are unemployed, uneducated, and represented in prison. There is no under or over. It is what it is. Most of your problems are self inflected.
I can go into great lengths about the black family/community’s lack of concern for almost every aspect of daily life.

Blacks-12% of the counties population
controls only 9% of the counties spending power.
Asians- 4% control 8%
Whites- 72% control 73%
Alright, Let’s divide business into black and white.
Simple math
72%/12%=6 times more whites than blacks
9%/6=1.5% black buying power spread across whites
If all blacks just stopped spending all their money at white businesses, the money loss to the white businesses would amount to giving all white shoppers a 1.5% discount on their purchases.
Do you really believe you have power and leverage in money?
What would happen if all whites stopped spending their money at black businesses?
The greatest power that any person has is knowledge and the ability to use it.
Get an education and learn to get along.
Blacks- Uneducated, angry, violent, and racists.