African American long-term unemployment reached a twenty-year high, signaling disposability

Evidence

Today long-term unemployment among African Americans is at its highest in twenty years and has left many isolated in concentrated poverty while middle-class African Americans face the threat of downward mobility. People are losing their livelihoods and their communities, but little if anything is being said about either. Here the feeling that black people are disposable becomes concrete. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 66

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Long-term unemployment stayed above pre-crisis levels and crushed household savings. — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 39