i don't see poor black people sitting in front of Home Depot waiting to do manual labor at a discount.

and minimum wage paying retail/restaurant/hospital jobs are there for people that want to do them. sure, there is competition for low skill/low education/low wage jobs but those jobs are out there. at least in Baltimore they are.

i've run into far too many young people that don't wanna do that type of work even though they don't have the credential to do much else.

and i run into too many people that would rather get by doing all kinds of hustles than take what they see as a menial job.




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