Truth Revolt -- Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, Al Sharpton centered his focus on the black community and their economic problem, saying if black men are to take care of their families like they are always asked, they need training and jobs.
Sitting with Garner's widow, Chuck Todd mentioned that Mr. Garner had to sell single cigarettes to survive and asked Sharpton his plan to address this "economic hopelessness" in the black community.
Sharpton responded:
"We aggressively -- the National Action Network and the civil rights community -- supported a jobs bill, support infrastructure development. Because when we go and challenge men in our community to say, ‘You’ve got to stand up and you've got to be responsible’ — they need jobs. They need training."
Sharpton finds hypocrisy in Congress killing a jobs bill and then expecting black men to care for their families:
"So at one hand, we can't expand the public sector for jobs. At another hand, they say, well, we're being harassed and treated differently by law enforcement. So we've got to strike a balance that is not in our power to do, which is why we're going at the Congress to make that possible."
You can't kill a jobs bill and infrastructure and then tell men to take care of their families. You can't have it both ways.
Blog author's comments - It appears that quite a few black men are not interested in working and taking care of a family. Why is Sharpton looking at public sector jobs, does he want the government to give the black men jobs? At least 7 of 10 black children are born to single mothers. Welfare and other government handouts, funded by the tax payers, are caring for the mothers and their children. There may be men living with the single mothers, but the majority of them are not employed. There are many black families who are doing well, but so many black mothers and single parent children are struggling.
The black men should have provided their own training by at least completing high school, but Sharpton and other race baiters like him put the blame for what has and is happening in so many black communities on others. Its people like Sharpton who ensure the problems in the black communities are never resolved because they are providing an excuse for so many black men. If a black man doesn't take care of his family, he's a victim. He needs the people in Washington to fix things for him. That is why so many blacks will never rise above where they are today. Many blacks thought Obama was their savior, but in my opinion he has only made the problems worse.
