The ‘Green Jobs’ Gamble Has Not Paid Off
(TheGrio.com) — It is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Strangely, today’s “celebration” reminds me of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Independence Day speech when he so poignantly asked, ” What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence?” Today, black America should ask the same question of Earth Day, and more specifically, of the rallying call for “green jobs”: “What have we to do with it?” If someone could define what a green job is, and if they really existed, and if they could alleviate staggering unemployment within the African American community, more of them would be great.
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