Poor Black people don't work?: Lessons of a former dope dealer.

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Salon.com

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Didn't read.

2 bans, many PMs

Don't look at me. That's the title of the article. I jus posted it.

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Watkins holds a Masters in Education from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Baltimore.

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And he was slangin rocks.

Some of the black people I worked with growing up were the hardest workers doing manual labor for low pay.

I know plenty of lazy whites and blacks too. Just saying.

I think he was being sarcastic... Although this is the OT. Plenty of closet bigots here

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She still works hard but will be only judged for not following traditional rules, which is unfortunate because there are so many hardworking people like us who are forced to create our own industries as a direct result of being isolated by society. To me that poses a bigger question. Why employment inequality for African-Americans is always identified as laziness? Hire us.

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As a college grad I would have expected him to understand that we don't always view people as "lazy" in the simplistic form of the word.

Use your brain. If you're too "lazy" to really sit down and think about why you aren't being hired on somewhere, then yes, you will be discriminated against, but not because of skin color.

Dreads, corn rows, saggy pants, excessive jewelry, etc... have all become synonymous with poor work ethic, lack of dependability and being uneducated. This idea is not limited to black Americans alone. Walking into a job interview looking like trailer trash in a wife beater, jorts and tons of ridiculous arm tattoos is going to yield you the same "discrimination" based on appearance, apparel and attitude.

Is it fair to make on the fly assumptions about individuals based on split second appearance? Maybe, maybe not, but I bet you wouldn't judge someone for being suspicious of the guy in line at the bank with a ski mask and gloves on with his hands in his jacket pocket....maybe he's just cold.....

Drug dealing takes balls and ruthlessness, but you don't exactly have to be a hard worker.

Is that a condescending poor black people, or a qualifier to their socioeconomic status?

Lets hear your interpretation Einstein