Fifteen Years in the same Job at Papa John's and still making only $8.50 an Hour? (Video Update)

This week we've seen an entire new battlefront open with the fight for a Living Wage.  In more than 150 cities arond the nation worker protested yesterday for a $15 Minimum Wage arguing that most of the people (over 3/4th) at these jobs are over 20 years old. Many of them have families, they are trying to make-ends-meet under the most difficult situations possible.  People doing these jobs are below the poverty line. Working and still below the poverty line.

But then they have to listen to claptrap like this from Rafael Cruz arguing that the "Average Black doesn't understand the Minimum Wage".

Conservative activist Rafael Cruz argued that African-Americans need to be “educated” to oppose minimum wage laws, citing the work of a Black conservative member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, Buzzfeed reported.

“Jason Riley said in an interview, Did you know before we had minimum wage laws, Black unemployment and white unemployment were the same? If we increase the minimum wage, Black unemployment will skyrocket,” Cruz said during a speech to the Western Williamson County Republican Club in Texas last month. “See, he understands it, but the average Black does not.”

He says Black unemployment will skyrocket? It will?  The Black Unemployment Rate is already 10.7%, more than double that of Whites 5.3%. For young males like Michael Brown in cities like Ferguson that unemployment rate is nearly 50% for young black men.
This is a fact that's been true since the Census Bureau began tracking this data in 1954, so regardless of what Lou Dobbs claims, you can't blame this low jobs rate on Obama for not focusing on jobs, it's been like this since before he was born.  But still people like Rafael Cruz seem to believe that the one thing Black People need to find more jobs, is to keep getting paid peanuts for those jobs.