Every time the liberal media discovers that the racial composition of any particular company or industry does not reflect the population of the United States, immediately millions of gallons of ink (or digital ink) are shed as the media frantically searches for signs of inherent racism.  Just look at this recent article worrying that not enough black directors were making Super Bowl ads.  But in a curious article in the New York Times, the Times mentions an enormous racial disparity only second-handedly, and doesn't seem concerned about the nature of it, because the recipients of it are not white, but black.

Roughly one in five black adults works for the government, teaching school, delivering mail, driving buses, processing criminal justice and managing large staffs. They are about 30 percent more likely to have a public sector job than non-Hispanic whites, and twice as likely as Hispanics.

“Where else can you get a middle-class job without a college degree?” asked Bruce Bodner, the lawyer for the Transit Workers Union Local 234 in Philadelphia. A bus driver there who has been on the job for more than four years earns an average of $64,000 a year including overtime pay, he said, and skilled craft workers, like mechanics and carpenters, can earn more. Nearly 60 percent of the roughly 5,000 people who work for the city’s transit system, he said, are black.

Fifteen point six percent of black men are employed by the government, while only 12.5% of white men are; 21.4% of black women work for the government while 18.2% of white women do.  These figures are especially stunning because there are many fewer black than white people; to achieve this disparity, the government has to employ a lot more black than white people.

And they get paid pretty well, too.

State and local government workers earned an average of $28.17 an hour in December 2014, according to the Labor Department, in addition to a basket of other benefits worth nearly $16 an hour. (For a typical 35-hour week, that is roughly $51,000 a year, plus $29,000 in benefits.) Often their paychecks are supplemented with overtime.

In Miami, a bus operator’s base pay falls between $32,000 and $50,000, without overtime, according to county figures [not counting benefits, either].

So not only are the jobs awarded on the basis of race, but the pay for such unskilled jobs is discriminatory as well, because people of one race are being paid a much higher wage to do unskilled labor than people of other races would be paid in the private sector.  And since these are wages paid with tax dollars, most taxpayers, who are not minorities, are supporting redistribution of wealth involuntarily based on race.

So why is the Times writing about this now?  Because state and local governments are apparently cutting back on jobs, and blacks are in danger of the losing some of the jobs they gained through preferential treatment.

I'm sure you see the irony here on several levels.  When there is a statistical disparity against black employment, the media is the first to cry "racism"; when it's the opposite, the media is worried only about how to perpetuate it. It's standard liberal media double-standard racism.

This article was produced by NewsMachete.com, the conservative news site.