Uhh . . . dude. That's what you want.

I'm not trying to keep Americans out of jobs here, but isn't it good to require that foreign born people have jobs before they come here? I mean, I assume you are talking about immigrants. Why would you not want them to have some sort of employment related Visa before they get on the plane to come here and live?

This statistic, to me, says that the government is doing something right. Again, not trying to open up an immigration discussion, just saying that this statistic is a good thing. In general you want native unemployment to be higher than foreign born unemployment or you have a problem with your immigration program. In America Native unemployment is higher across every demographic, which is excellent in my opinion.

Just my two cents. I'm not an immigration expert or anything, but I am smart enough to know that I want the employable immigrants.

Uh, dude, I'm not making any immigration-related argument. All I'm saying is that those racist employers seem to have a really narrow kind of racism: "we hate black americans, but not black haitians or senegalese."

It's probably not racism then, but, umm, culturalism.

We don't have good vocabulary yet for distinguishing between race, culture and nationality because for most of history, these were very strongly correlated.

Very good point. That pretty clearly points to issues with education/culture (as it relates to dress, speech, expectations, etc...)/etc... NOT race.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a bit of personal history about the differences in native versus immigrant black perceptions. Interesting article.

http://www.gladwell.com/1996/1996_04_29_a_black.htm