United States Postal Service (USPS) Make Money? No -- It's a Job Program for Black People

Racial Socialism in Action -- the United States Postal Service (USPS)

Many were outraged that the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point would dare teach cadets of the dangers posed by limited government activists and such distinguished, heavily-funded entities as “a racist/white supremacy movement, an anti-federalist movement and a fundamentalist movement [West Point center cites dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S., Washington Times, 1-17-13]; those who dared find this report from the CTC alarming should take heart, for they fail to understand such groups are firmly in the cross-hairs of the state.

And by state, I mean the governing ideology of Black-Run America (BRA), which Lawrence Auster noted is, “the assurance of equality of results for blacks as a sacred principle in America 2.0, which has now explicitly replaced America 1.0, the American constitutional republic.”

Those, bless their hearts, limited government individuals clinging to a dead ideal can huff and puff at the CTC report, but it’s highly accurate as to naming the only legitimate threat to United States of America.

Remember, some 97% of black people voted for Barack Obama: why on earth would they dare vote against a man – and a party – that continues to fund their existence?

Take this story of the United States Postal Service (USPS) financial woes for instance, which fails to note any correlation between the large percentage of black people employed in the organization – who could soon be out of a job – and… the cuts necessary in personnel to keep the USPS financially viable [U.S. Post Office cuts threaten source of black jobs, Yahoo!, 1-22-13]:

While delivering mail on Chicago's North Side, Lakesha Dortch-Hardy spoke about how much she loves her job at the U.S. Postal Service, and how much it would hurt if jobs such as hers were to disappear. 

"These jobs are the middle class ..." said Dortch-Hardy, a tall, energetic 38-year-old, who took long strides as she wheeled her cart along a row of two- and three-story brick apartment houses. "Without this job, I don't know where I'd be right now." 

The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service has eliminated 168,000 jobs since 2006, and more cuts could result as it struggles to avoid its own "fiscal cliff." As the United States honors Martin Luther King's civil rights legacy on Monday, many African-American workers may be facing new obstacles to achieving and maintaining a middle-class life style. 

African-Americans represent 13.1 percent of the U.S. population and 11.6 percent of the labor force, according to a 2012 U.S. Department of Labor report. Nearly one in five African-American workers hold government jobs such as mail clerks, firefighters and teachers, the report said. 

"There's a long tradition of the public sector being more friendly, or less hostile, to African-American workers," said Robert Zieger, emeritus professor of history at the University of Florida in Gainesville. "The Post Office is the best example. "

African-Americans make up about 20 percent of U.S. Postal Service workers - and are the majority in some urban centers, representing 75 percent to 80 percent of the 5,000 letter carriers in the Chicago area, according to Mack Julion, president of the Chicago branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers. 

But the public sector has cut nearly 600,000 jobs since 2009, due to shrinking government budgets and a range of other issues, according to the Bureau of Labor Relations. The slower recovery for African-Americans in the labor market has, in part, been the result of government layoffs after the end of the recession was declared, according to the Labor Department report. 

In December, the black unemployment rate was 14 percent, roughly double that of whites. 

While some other sectors of the economy are seeing recovery, the biggest problems may be just beginning for the Post Office, the second-largest civilian employer in the United States after Wal-Mart with about 536,000 career workers. 

A PLACE FOR JOBS 

Why are there so many African-Americans in the Post Office? Because historically it was less prone to racial discrimination than other employers and offered a way out of poverty, says Rubio, a former postal worker and author of the book "There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice and Equality." 

In 1865, the U.S. Post Office opened to black workers. The jobs were attractive to educated African-Americans who found their skills were not appreciated in the private sector, Rubio said. Former postal workers of note include novelist Richard Wright and actor Sherman Hemsley. 

"It became a magnet for African-Americans who gravitated to the one place where they could take the test and they knew once they got in and became career employees, they were set," Rubio said. By World War I, 10 percent of the Postal Service's work force was African-American. 

After an executive order by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 banned discrimination in the government and defense industries, there was a sharp rise in postal employment among African-American men and women, Rubio said."Public service, particularly for African-Americans, was an opportunity - all you need is a high school diploma," said Julion. 

Dortch-Hardy took the Postal Service test after graduating from high school on Chicago's South Side, but there were no openings, and she did not get a job immediately. She moved to Memphis, attended college and worked in a bank. But when the Post Office called - she jumped at the chance for better pay and benefits, and returned to Chicago. 

Except for very hot or heavy snow days, and the time she had to jump over a fence while pregnant to escape a ferocious dog, she has enjoyed her 15 years of service. 

Without it, she feels she might have to work two or three retail jobs to provide adequately for her four children, the oldest of whom is about to start college. 

And while she and her husband, also a postal worker, are not worried about losing their jobs, she says: "I do worry about the people coming in now." 

RIPPLE EFFECTS 

Julion said the loss of more Postal Service jobs would be devastating - not only to African-American communities, but all communities who rely on postal jobs and service. For example, the Postal Service is the largest employer of veterans in the nation, after the Department of Defense. 

The national average annual salary of career employees who work directly with mail, such as letter carriers, is $53,000 to $55,000, said a Chicago Post Office spokesman. 

"These are homeowners -- people with mortgages and car notes," Julion said. "They are big players in their community in terms of what resources they bring to the table. They are the ones going to the barber shops, the beauty shops, the Ma and Pa shops in the neighborhoods - if you take those incomes away, it's going to be devastating."

Moral of the story: How dare you demand financial accountability from an organization that performs the important service of employing otherwise unemployable black people?!?

How dare you expect such an organization to turn a profit, which isn’t even a secondary objective or consideration of the USPS; it’s only in the business of creating an artificial black middle class.

This is why I dubbed the age, the epoch, we all live in, Black-Run America (BRA); just as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, organizations that are losing billions (and writing off billions more) each year, can’t go under, because half of its workforce is non-white – a more worthwhile goal is employing black people then turning a profit [Winding down Fannie and Freddie could put minority careers at risk, 2-21-11].

Black America is vested completely in the continued growth of government; the redistribution of white tax-payers wealth to pay for these government jobs (that produce no profit, save the noble goal of keeping black unemployment rates down); and in the state declaring any opposition to responsible spending and government a “racist” notion.

In Nicholas Lemann’s 1991 book “The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America,” we learn that blacks filing discrimination lawsuits against the federal, state, and local government created the system that protects black peoples jobs at the USPS, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and the extreme disproportional percentage they make up in government jobs and agencies nationwide:

Aside from the poverty programs themselves, the settlement of antidiscrimination lawsuits against the police and fire departments produced hiring plans that created many new positions for blacks. A massive school-building program in the ghettos, undertaken by [Mayor Richard] Daley to alleviate the overcrowding of the Benn Willis years without putting blacks in white schools, led to a large increase in the number of black teachers in the system. New community colleges were built in black areas, and they were staffed substantially with blacks. The Chicago Transit Authority hired many black drivers and motormen. In Chicago as in the rest of the country, government became the business of the black middle class. (p. 252)

Do you want black riots again?

No?

Then accept this artificial black middle class... or else.

The moral imperative of our age is to sit back and watch Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the USPS lose hundreds of billions and not notice the people employed by each organization at rates that are immensely greater than the private sector, who are incapable of being responsible for anything negative in this world.

That the USPS is on the verge of insolvency isn’t the crisis; that it is on the verge of insolvency, which could jeopardize black peoples – who are grossly misrepresented statistically in USPS positions - livelihood is the crisis…

And yet no one dares ask if the USPS insolvency has any correlation with it being nothing more than a job programs for black people… same with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.