According to Jamie Foxx most talented are also most unemployed

Jamie Foxx called Doofus Magnus aka LB "Our Lord and Savior" at last November's Soul Train Awards. This year creepy Jamie Foxx pushed his “talk like a racist” button. During his acceptance speech as Entertainer of the Year at last Friday's NAACP Image Awards, not sly like a Foxx said, "Black people are the most talented people in the world"


Now, is that racist? What if a white guy had said, “After 4 years of our current double d-bag, it is clear that white guys make the best presidents. This is clearly a job not suited to affirmative action.”

But maybe he’s right. Here are some things that blacks are the most talented at

Blacks make up about 12% of the population.

Nationally illegitimacy rates are at 33%. But hey Jamie, blacks are #1 with a 70% out of wedlock birth rate. Way to go!

Blacks are #1 in incarceration comprising 37% of people in jail! And don’t give me that racist judicial system BS. Most black crime is against other blacks.

Hey Jamie well done on the poverty front. You’re #1 again! 32% of blacks live in poverty.

Blacks are #1 making up 36% of the people on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

And all of that is probably because blacks are the most talented unemployed people in America, leading the way with over a 16% unemployment rate. 

Now it’s not all as rosy as you think Jamie. There are a couple of areas where blacks can improve. Maybe you could you use your celebrity status to have blacks pick up their game in the food stamp area. Currently while comprising only 12% of the total population blacks make up 22% of food stamp recipients. Sadly, that’s #2 behind whites who make up about 66% the population and account over 30% of food stamp recipients. So Jamie you can still spin this as a #1 status based on a percentage of population, but really if you want to be the most talented in the field, you’ll need another 8%. Also blacks are going to really need to pick up the pace of high school drop outs. With a 8% dropout rate black trail by significant margins Latinos who deal with migrant populations and American Indians. I don’t think you will be able to claim most talented in this category for some time.

Foxx is modern day idiot confusing pop culture with talent. He is of the mind as long as a guy can shoot a basketball or a gal can shake her @$$ on stage for the Super Bowl half time show, they have talent. Sadly, even some of the most talented in those categories fall well short of earning even a meager living.

What Foxx might have done, had his “talent” not trumped his brain, is to encourage his most talented following to stay in school, off drugs, away from promiscuous sex and out of trouble. He could have told them that world needs 100 times as many black accountants, doctors, salesman, engineers, truck drives, welders, miners etc. as black athletes and entertainers.

But heck, you’d need someone who understood fame is hard to achieve and fleeting. You’d need a messenger with real talent to make that message stick.