Janet Yellen says US economy is unfair
to Black Americans in MLK Day speech
Guardian [UK] and Agencies,
by
Edward Helmore
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/17/2022 1:16:16 PM
The treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, marked Martin Luther King Day with a speech acknowledging that the US economy “has never worked fairly for Black Americans or, really, for any American of color”.
Interpreting the late civil rights leader’s I Have a Dream speech, Yellen said: “Dr King knew that economic injustice was bound up in the larger injustice he fought against.” In her comments, recorded for delivery at the Rev Al Sharpton’s National Action Network breakfast in Washington, Yellen noted the financial metaphors the Rev Martin Luther King Jr used in his address, delivered on 28 August 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Reply 1 - Posted by:
justavoter 1/17/2022 1:18:29 PM (No. 1041635)
When you see yourself as a victim you never rise to your full potential.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/17/2022 1:27:11 PM (No. 1041641)
Janet, honey, no need to play the victim card. You are a whitey, remember.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/17/2022 1:28:19 PM (No. 1041643)
That's why 18 Yr old fast food employees are murdered. It's why people get shoved in front of subway trains, It's why women and elderly get knockout punched on the street. Shall I go on?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lazyman 1/17/2022 1:32:18 PM (No. 1041648)
Keep that anger going to make sure some feel justified to fill out those 100 ballots left at a 4 unit apartment building.
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Unfair how, exactly? Please elaborate on this unfairness to those of superior melanin content.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 1/17/2022 1:36:40 PM (No. 1041656)
Ask all of the black athletes if it's unfair
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Lake Dweller 1/17/2022 1:40:30 PM (No. 1041662)
Janet Yelle is just one of the many Biden cabal that are evil, hate-filled racist imbeciles.
Janet, go away. I would say something more explicit, but will resist.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Luke21 1/17/2022 1:44:30 PM (No. 1041666)
She needs to see our 600 dollar spending.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 1/17/2022 1:45:06 PM (No. 1041669)
LBJ started the great society to help black.
We have unknown amount s of to black people.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
volksford 1/17/2022 1:49:01 PM (No. 1041678)
They were doing pretty damn good under Trump !
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/17/2022 1:58:50 PM (No. 1041690)
Surrender your job, Janet. You probably get paid so much you could benefit three or four black Americans, two hispanics, and one Indian.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/17/2022 2:03:06 PM (No. 1041697)
Generational welfare and benefits have disincentivized Blacks to realize their full potential by always having that safety net within easy reach. Add in being poorly served by public education and what ya got here is a failure to adapt and access what is available to every citizen. But it doesn't come get you, you have to work for it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
FJB 1/17/2022 2:08:59 PM (No. 1041704)
The US Economy? Make that. the Biden Economy.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/17/2022 2:11:50 PM (No. 1041708)
Gives rise to serious questions...about the content of Her Character.
By the way, as Sec Treas. did she ask multi millionaire "Reverend" Al to cough up his back taxes?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/17/2022 2:12:30 PM (No. 1041710)
It's only unfair to people that think everything they get from the government without working for it, is free! It's truthfully unfair to hard working taxpayers that have their earnings confiscated to buy democrats votes!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 1/17/2022 2:15:59 PM (No. 1041713)
The more this deranged POS opens her mouth, the more I wonder why she's allowed out in public.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rich323 1/17/2022 2:32:57 PM (No. 1041740)
Before the Scamdemic, most all Americans were starting to enjoy the fruits of useful, well paying employment. Then the democrats gave everyone free money and restarted a welfare mentality. So now they want to do what? - a re do on Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program by providing free everything. This is Obama’s doing sending us right back to the 1960s all over again. He’s recreating the 1960s and forcing an outcome of his choosing.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/17/2022 2:33:42 PM (No. 1041741)
Well, Janet since you have such a guilty conscience perhaps you can find a poor black family and support them with monthly reparations from your fabulous salary. Then you will feel so much better.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/17/2022 2:41:58 PM (No. 1041749)
100% tax on all her income and possessions dedicated to reparations.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
downnout 1/17/2022 2:51:22 PM (No. 1041760)
Hmmm, try telling that to Thomas Sowell.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Namma 1/17/2022 3:07:20 PM (No. 1041778)
the certain ethnic group that do the smash and grab at LV stores are "working" and the certain ethnic group that steal items off the moving trains in LA are "working" These items have to be listed on websites and sold. That takes a long time. lots of thought on promoting the stolen, I mean, "used" goods. Stealing items from stores and not exceeding the $990.00 limit, so its not considered a robbery, takes exceptional math skills. one penny over the limit and off to jail! They are working so hard, and so very underpaid.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/17/2022 3:08:14 PM (No. 1041779)
I have black American in-laws who own their own homes, own their own businesses, own their own cars and live quite comfortably in the wealthiest county in the country. The only things standing between them and the poor oppressed black Americans that Yellen is talking about are - the willingness to get an education, to abandon gangsta and ghetto culture, to get off one’s arse and to work for a living.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
privateer 1/17/2022 3:14:55 PM (No. 1041791)
She has spoken the pronouncement handed to her from the high throne of Pharaohbama.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Calico Al 1/17/2022 3:19:46 PM (No. 1041795)
Did anyone ever hear about this Unfairness when Trump was Pres?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Californian 1/17/2022 3:20:00 PM (No. 1041796)
Guaranteed free housing, free education through phd and job afterwards. Only requirement is showing up and not getting convicted of too many felonies.
Boo hoo, how unfair!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/17/2022 3:39:03 PM (No. 1041815)
The first rule of success in literally anything is "Show Up." Blacks are now in an era of self-segregation, 180 degrees from MLK's view of integration. Okay, go sell sneakers to one another...Le Bron, Michael and Magic can turn a green buck on the suckers.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/17/2022 4:34:31 PM (No. 1041852)
EVERYTHING IS FREE is pretty darn hard to beat.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
TheTruthHurts 1/17/2022 4:57:40 PM (No. 1041871)
Does anyone really listen to this idiot? Some people are like bad Mexican meals, they just keep coming up. Another Obama - Biden incompetent.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/17/2022 5:42:18 PM (No. 1041920)
How did that fairness meter do during Trump days/ And what's fairness got to do with it anyway ? Are you saying it's unfair to work ? Janet, if I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/17/2022 5:49:26 PM (No. 1041928)
This wretched woman should watch Shark Tank so that she gains an understanding of capitalism. As it stands, her understanding of Economics is about the same as AOC's understanding. of the subject.
Both are economic illiterates.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
watashiyo 1/17/2022 7:41:21 PM (No. 1042036)
How is the U.S. economy unfair to blacks when they're allowed to shoplift $900 worth of goods without getting arrested? And don't forget the Diversity crap and Affirmative Action perks!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
mifla 1/18/2022 5:04:49 AM (No. 1042268)
More DNC talking points repeated endlessly for the sheeple.
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Not according to all TV commercials. Every Black is well off: not starving, nicely dressed, married, lives with their children, looks comfortable, drives a nice car and healthy.
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And yet, Janet Yellen, who is a complete incompetent if not an outright criminal, serves proudly as an economic destroyer at the Treasury Department after her dismal failures as head of the Federal Reserve, and has now elevated herself to be a cultural arsonist. Seeing how much money she's taken in for "speeches," one could say that the USA is more than fair to people of Yellen's class. Can this nation be saved?