Whitey Ford
02-23-2025, 09:14 PM
For the last several decades, federal jobs helped Black workers find stable work with guardrails to prevent bias, but mass cuts are threatening decades of upward mobility. (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704)
For decades, the federal government provided both reliable jobs and guardrails to offset systemic racial bias in hiring and promotions, offering an alternative for Black workers who might be overlooked or ignored in the private sector. They played a crucial role in helping Black workers like Verdine join the middle class and thrive. But vast cuts by the Trump administration, led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, are threatening to close down that once-dependable path to financial stability.
That raycisssss Trump and Elon gonna close the Gibs Muh Dats Gravy Train!
“The federal workforce was a means to help build Black middle class. It hired Black Americans at a higher rate than private employers,” said Sheria Smith, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents the Education Department employees.
Affirmative Action niggers losing their govt non-jobs? Cry me a river! :lol,
Nearly 30% of Education employees are Black according to a 2024 report by the department.
At the Department of Health and Human Services, where more than 1,300 new hires were reportedly laid off, 20% of the staff was Black. And at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which recently lost 1,000 employees, 24% are Black.
These numbers illustrate how important government jobs have been and are for Black people, said Marcus Casey, a fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He said the administration’s efforts are trying to undermine the gains of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination on the basis of race and other characteristics, and of affirmative action, which began in the federal government to make the hiring and promoting process more inclusive.
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Po' niggers.
Many Black people could build careers through the federal government typically because the private sector overlooked them, regardless of their qualifications, he said. “And so, the federal government has been essential to the building of the Black middle class.”
The president’s sweeping changes began with ending DEI throughout the government, weaponizing it as a “destructive ideology” along the way. Countless jobs have been lost in an area that was created to develop fair hiring opportunities.
For decades, the federal government provided both reliable jobs and guardrails to offset systemic racial bias in hiring and promotions, offering an alternative for Black workers who might be overlooked or ignored in the private sector. They played a crucial role in helping Black workers like Verdine join the middle class and thrive. But vast cuts by the Trump administration, led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, are threatening to close down that once-dependable path to financial stability.
That raycisssss Trump and Elon gonna close the Gibs Muh Dats Gravy Train!
“The federal workforce was a means to help build Black middle class. It hired Black Americans at a higher rate than private employers,” said Sheria Smith, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents the Education Department employees.
Affirmative Action niggers losing their govt non-jobs? Cry me a river! :lol,
Nearly 30% of Education employees are Black according to a 2024 report by the department.
At the Department of Health and Human Services, where more than 1,300 new hires were reportedly laid off, 20% of the staff was Black. And at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which recently lost 1,000 employees, 24% are Black.
These numbers illustrate how important government jobs have been and are for Black people, said Marcus Casey, a fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He said the administration’s efforts are trying to undermine the gains of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination on the basis of race and other characteristics, and of affirmative action, which began in the federal government to make the hiring and promoting process more inclusive.
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Po' niggers.
Many Black people could build careers through the federal government typically because the private sector overlooked them, regardless of their qualifications, he said. “And so, the federal government has been essential to the building of the Black middle class.”
The president’s sweeping changes began with ending DEI throughout the government, weaponizing it as a “destructive ideology” along the way. Countless jobs have been lost in an area that was created to develop fair hiring opportunities.