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March 23, 2012

While watching Mad Men,

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Weiner affords us ample opportunity to congratulate ourselves on how much progress we’ve made.
For example, most of the black characters in Mad Men have servile jobs. Today, of course, things are infinitely better. Black men are seldom seen in servile jobs (unless they are African immigrants or gay). In fact, black men aren’t seen in any jobs as much anymore: ten percent of black men were out of the work force in Don Draper’s 1960 versus 24 percent in booming 2000. Indeed, black men aren’t even seen at all as much anymore because a million are now locked away in prison. (The incarceration rate of black male high school dropouts was one percent in the Bad Old Days of Dwight Eisenhower’s last year in office versus 25 percent in Bill Clinton’s glorious finale.) -- Man Men - Steve Sailer

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 23, 2012 12:28 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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