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20 Only In America Ironies

LAPhil Wrote: Oct 22, 2012 8:24 AM

I think you misinterpreted her statement. The 17.8% black figure refers to the percentage of the minorites made of up blacks, but was not intended to mean that blacks make up 17.8% of the 34.1% total percentage of minorities in the federal workforce. I know it sounds like the same thing, but what it means is that the percentage of blacks of the TOTAL federal work force is 17.8%, not that the percentage of the minorities which are black is 17.8%, which would mean 17.8% of 34.1%, which as you pointed out would be somewhere around the 6% figure which I assume is correct without checking your math.

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20 Only In America Ironies

1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black.

3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to...

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