The columnist says:
There was a time in this country when black folks did the kind of work that nobody else wanted – the hardest, dirtiest and most dangerous of jobs. That’s what we had to do to survive and get ahead in a racist society.” …White Americans aren’t exactly lining up for such jobs either.
But African-Americans aren’t high enough up the economic ladder to make the same choices. If you’re on the bottom rung, then you’ve got to climb the ladder in stages, which means you might have to work at a job that you don’t enjoy and for lower wages. It’s a start; you don’t have to stay there.
She’d better watch her step. With an attitude like that, she’s liable to be called a “black Republican.”
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