t about 1.4million jobs, from 1978-1990. Some of the hardest places hit were Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and my hometown St. Louis. These are all places that have a high crime rate in the city and of course predominantly all black. I can remember when GM closed down in St. Louis; it was the largest plant in the city. The plant was more than three city blocks long and wide. Thousands of people lost their jobs and soon after the crime rate jumped up. This was in the mid-1980s. The reason I remember is because my grandparents house was broken two time in less than one year. That wasn’t the only factory that shut down either. My grandfather and both of my uncles worked in a packinghouse factory. Lusane also talks about how new investors seem to start new manufactures out in the suburban areas where predominantly only white people live. To add to it this is foreign and domestic investors that are doing this. “It’s not that they have less education, experience, or seniority. The difference has nothing to do with job performance…Blacks are fired more often because of their skin color…Rank didn’t help. Black senior managers went out the door as often as black clerks.” The Mercury News Now everything they tell you in school has nothing to do with nothing if you are black? All the hard work that a black person might do to move up in a company can all be taken away because of their skin color, and from this article quote is says nothing of class. It’s just being black. The same study showed that only one out of every one hundred appeal was over-turned. So black workers are in a no win situation. Lusane goes further about how the National American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is taking more jobs out of the hands of black workers and placed these jobs over seas. Black women are also losing a sexiest and raciest battle in globalization. They are paid 56 percent less than a black male doing the same jo...
