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Pat Buchanan’s solution to end black unemployment

It seems conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan has an interesting solution to reducing the high rates of unemployment in the black community.

"One thing I would do is stop immigration into the country until all unemployment is down to 6 percent," he reportedly said in an interview with DCentric's Elahe Izadi. "We've got to start putting our own people first." 

Izadi had caught up with Buchanan shortly after a morning radio appearance on “The Diane Rehm Show,” on which he discussed his views on how diversity harms America. She asked Buchanan for suggestions on how to address wealth disparities, particularly in D.C., that break down along racial lines.

Buchanan recently came under fire for comments made in his new book, “Suicide of a Superpower,” that many found offensive and racist.

The following is an excerpt from the chapter, "The End of White America":

“Those who believe the rise to power of an Obama rainbow coalition of peoples of color means the whites who helped to engineer it will steer it are deluding themselves. The whites may discover what it is like to ride in the back of the bus.”

Now Buchanan is referring to African-Americans as “our own people?”

QUESTION: Do you think his idea to stop immigration until the nation’s unemployment rates are reduced for all people is a good one. 
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30 pounds of cocaine found in cake boxes

An 18-year-old woman was arrested at Miami International Airport after authorities say said they found nearly 30 pounds of powder cocaine hidden in cake mix boxes in her suitcase. Ayesha Niles, who lives in London, was traveling from Jamaica to London with a stopover in Miami when she was stopped going through a routine luggage check. "Twenty-four boxes of cake mix in your luggage," Ed Griffith, spokesperson Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, told CNN. "It just seemed extremely unusual." According to the state attorney's office, the estimated street value of the cocaine in London is $650,000. According to the affidavit, Niles told law enforcement that she was unaware of what the boxes contained. (Read more)

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