Employment policy can counter the lazy-black stigma sustaining racial habits

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However, a large-scale, comprehensive jobs agenda with a living wage designed to put Americans, and explicitly African Americans, to work would go a long way toward uprooting the racial habits that inform such a view. It would counter the nonsense that currently stands as a reason for long-term black unemployment in public debate: black folk are lazy and don’t want to work. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 512