re: 65% of black women with a degree work for the government

Just estimating but 99%. Same with state and local governments.

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Here ya go you contrarian frick.

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So no actual data on the real numbers (non-federal government employees).

Got it.

I’ve worked with 7 fed agencies and 4 of those had a noticeable cultural makeup.

I would not be surprised at all if that number was darn close.

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I'd like to see the actual data being cited here.

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It's emperical. Open your eyes.

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Visit any municipal building in the South and it's much higher than 65%.

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They are not saying that 65% of the workers are black women with degrees; they are saying that 65% of black women with degrees work for the government.

This goes a long way in explaining two things:

1. Why such a high percentage of black women vote Democrat, and
2. Why Democrats hold an edge among college educated folks.

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Also does he mean the federal government or just any government job? Do teachers in public school count? Do nurses at county hospitals count?

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Any government employee. Federal, state, local, public school teacher, public hospital nurse, etc.

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I don't think anyone would argue they are significantly over-represented in government based on their percentage of the population.

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I certainly would not argue that point.

But I suspect that "65% of all female, Black college grads" is a statistic that someone pulled out of his own arse. That little Tweet certainly does not provide a source to support the claim.

Logically, thanks to affirmative action, a Black woman with a college degree can pretty much write her own ticket in the private sector. It strains credulity to assert that 65% of them would take a lower-paying government job.

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It's emperical. Open your eyes.

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This meme applies to the deniers.



They will deny the evidence even though it's all around them.

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I suspect that the vast majority of those jobs are NOT "college educated" positions.

Clerks at the DMV do not need (or generally have) a college degree.

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Plenty of college graduates have jobs that don't require degrees.

There are a lot of "clerk" type jobs in government where people with shitty degrees find a home.

That’s why you got to change how people get fired for not doing their jobs.