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Life Must Suck if You’re Black…and Working at the Journal Sentinel

By James T Harris


Jso_logo2k5hmpg_a_2 Here we go again.

Time for the annual Milwaukee-is-a-great-place-unless-you-are-black rant.  The latest to slam the city I love is the editorial board of the Journal Sentinel newspaper. In short: Forbes magazine sees great things in Milwaukee, the editorial board sees prejudice and inequality.

Why?

The editorial board claims we lack a strong black middle class and there aren’t enough minority managers. (They also cite a strange story about some guy whose kid attends Florida A&M University, along with other students of African descent from Milwaukee – never mind that those kids almost ALWAYS come back to Milwaukee after they go out of state for college; we’re supposed to be upset that young black high school students are advancing in higher education?)

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