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Undated: Racial inequality in the United States refers to social advantages and disparities that affect different races within the United States. These inequities may be manifested in the distribution of wealth, power, and life opportunities afforded to people based on their race or ethnicity, both historic and modern. These can also be seen as a result of historic oppression, inequality of inheritance, or overall prejudice, especially against minority groups.
There are vast differences in wealth across racial groups in the United States. The wealth gap between white and African-American families nearly tripled from $85,000 in 1984 to $236,500 in 2009. The study concluded that factors contributing to the inequality included years of home ownership (27%), household income (20%), education (5%), and familial financial support and/or inheritance (5%).[8]
The racial wealth gap is visible in terms of dollar for dollar wage and wealth comparisons. For example, middle-class Blacks earn seventy cents for every dollar earned by similar middle-class Whites.[9] Race can be seen as the "strongest predictor" of one's wealth.[21]
Even at similar education levels, minorities typically earn less than whites. Education may boost earnings less for minorities than for whites, although all groups typically see benefits from additional education.[22]
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Krivo and Kaufman found that information supporting the fact that increases in income does not affect wealth as much for minorities as it does for White Americans. For example, a $10,000 increase in income for White Americans increases their home equity $17,770 while the same increase only increase the home equities for Asians by $9,500, Hispanics by $15,150, and African Americans by $15,900.[23]
In 2016, the unemployment rate was 3.8% for Asians, 4.6% for non-Hispanic Whites, 6.1% for Hispanics, and 9.0% for Blacks, all over the age of 16.[5] In terms of unemployment, it can be seen that there are two-tiers: relatively low unemployment for Asians and Whites, relatively high unemployment for Hispanics and Blacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_inequality_in_the_United_States
Undated: Racial views of Donald Trump
Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has a history of making racially controversial remarks and taking actions widely seen as exacerbating racial anxieties in the United States.[1][2][3] Trump has denied accusations of racism, saying, "I am not a racist. I'm the least racist person you will ever interview".[4]
In 1973, Trump and his company Trump Management were sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for housing discrimination against black renters—a lawsuit which, according to Trump, he settled without an admission of guilt.[5][6][7]
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In 2011, Trump became the leading proponent of the already discredited "Birtherism" conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the US, and he repeated the claim for the following five years.[8][9] He was accused of racism for maintaining, as late as 2016, that a group of black and Latino teenagers were guilty of raping a white woman in the Central Park jogger case, although an imprisoned serial rapist had confessed in 2002 to raping the jogger alone, and DNA evidence confirmed his guilt.[10][11][12]
Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech where he stated of illegal Mexican immigrants: "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people".[13][14] Later, his comments about a Mexican-American judge were criticized as racist. He tweeted fake statistics claiming that African Americans are responsible for the majority of murders of whites, and in some speeches he linked African-Americans and Hispanics with violent crime.[15] During his presidency, comments he made following a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia were perceived as implying a moral equivalence between violence used by white supremacist marchers and violence used by those who protested against them. In 2018, during an Oval Office meeting about immigration reform, he referred to El Salvador, Haiti, and African countries as "shitholes"; this comment was internationally condemned as racist.[16][17][18]
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Trump's controversial statements have been condemned by many observers in the U.S. and around the world,[6][19][20] but excused by some of his supporters either as a rejection of political correctness[21][22] or because they harbor similar racial sentiments.[23][24] Several studies and surveys have stated that racist attitudes and racial resentment have fueled Trump's political ascendance, and have become more significant than economic factors in determining party allegiance of voters.[24][25] According to an October 2017 Politico/Morning Consult poll, 45% of American voters view Trump as racist and 40% do not.[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
-- 2016 --
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January 23: Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html?utm_term=.076f9e3e235f
September 20: Donald Trump said African-Americans are in the worst shape they've been in "ever, ever, ever," apparently disregarding centuries of black oppression in America.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-blacks-in-worst-shape-ever-769894467985?v=raila&
November 1: If you’ve seen footage of a Donald Trump campaign event over the past month or so, you’ve probably seen the signage floating behind him: “Blacks for Trump.”
So who are these supporters?
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The ringleader of the group hoisting Blacks for Trump signs is a former cult member who goes by both Michael Symonette and “Michael the Black Man.” ... Symonette isn’t your typical Trump supporter, your typical conservative, your typical black Republican — or really your typical anything.
He’s the creator of the Gods2.com website that’s advertised on many of the Blacks for Trump signs, and a conspiracy theorist at a level that makes Trump’s claims of “vote rigging” look harmless. His political worldview centers on what he’s convinced is an upcoming battle in which black and white Americans will have to fight together against “Arabs” — and a belief that Hillary Clinton is a white supremacist determined to destroy black women in particular.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/11/1/13449340/blacks-for-trump-conspiracy-bad
-- 2017 --
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November 13: President Donald Trump is nominating white men to America’s federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, threatening to reverse a slow transformation toward a judiciary that reflects the nation’s diversity.
So far, 91 percent of Trump’s nominees are white, and 81 percent are male, an Associated Press analysis has found. Three of every four are white men, with few African-Americans and Hispanics in the mix. The last president to nominate a similarly homogenous group was George H.W. Bush.
https://apnews.com/a2c7a89828c747ed9439f60e4a89193e
-- 2018 --
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January 30: ... President Donald Trump went too far when he claimed the black unemployment rate is the lowest in recorded history “because of my policies.”
While it’s true that the black unemployment rate recently reached its lowest level in decades, the rate has been in steady decline for about the last seven years.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/01/trump-takes-undue-credit-black-unemployment/
January 30: Trump’s got his numbers right — unemployment overall is at a 45-year low and black unemployment did reach a new low this year — but he’s taking credit for an awful lot of gains that occurred before his administration.
President Barack Obama cut black unemployment in half, from 16.8 percent to 7.8 percent during his administration. Under Trump’s administration thus far, the black unemployment rate has fallen just one point, from 7.8 percent to 6.8 percent.
https://www.nbcnews.com/card/fact-check-trump-gets-black-unemployment-rate-right-claims-undue-n843136
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February 1: 'Kicking Off Black History Month,' Trump Guts CFPB's Ability to Curb Racial Discrimination by Banks
"These changes threaten effective enforcement of civil rights laws and increase the likelihood that people will continue to face discriminatory access and pricing as they navigate their economic lives."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/02/01/kicking-black-history-month-trump-guts-cfpbs-ability-curb-racial-discrimination
February 2: Black unemployment rate jumps after Trump touted record low
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/news/economy/black-unemployment-rate/index.html
May 4: Black unemployment hits a new low — but still trails white unemployment significantly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/04/black-unemployment-hits-a-new-low-but-still-trails-white-unemployment-significantly/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.199378a8b513
June 1: The black unemployment rate fell to 5.9% in May — the lowest since the government started keeping track in 1972.
It's a notoriously volatile number, but the trend is clear: This economy is strong, and everyone is reaping the rewards.
As the overall unemployment rate continues to fall — the lowest since 2000 — it's also shrinking the gap between black and white unemployment. It is the narrowest on record.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/news/economy/black-unemployment-rate-record-low/index.html
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June 1: The black unemployment rate just hit a record low, but there’s a catch
President Trump regularly boasts about the falling black unemployment rate, but it doesn’t tell a complete story.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/1/17417762/black-unemployment-rate-record-low-may-jobs-report
June 4: Did You Hear? Black Unemployment Plunges [half a point] to Historic Low Under Trump Economy
The most recent jobs report shows a dramatic drop in black unemployment.
The rate dropped half a point in May, to 5.9 percent. That's a historic low.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the gap between white unemployment and black unemployment has never been smaller.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/june/did-you-hear-black-unemployment-plunges-to-historic-low-under-trump-economy
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August 10: Trump's tactic to attack black people and women: insult their intelligence
Analysis shows Trump consistently targets African Americans and women with ‘dumb’ and ‘low IQ’ jibes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/10/trump-attacks-twitter-black-people-women
August 15: AP FACT CHECK: Trump on black unemployment
https://www.apnews.com/d7a35c3d0ad342ad8b3a041226f06746
August 16: Trump at 36 percent approval among African-Americans, new poll finds
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/08/16/trump-approval-rating-african-americans-rasmussen-poll/1013212002/
September 25: Maurice Symonette has become a political celebrity thanks to Donald Trump's staff, which has repeatedly given the ex-member of Miami's deadly Yahweh ben Yahweh cult prime seats behind the president at nationally televised rallies to show off his "Blacks for Trump" signs. But Symonette recently told a bankruptcy court that he's dead broke, raising the question of who's been paying for his recent trips to rallies from Arizona to Tampa.
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Now a federal judge has banned one of Trump's most visible black supporters from bankruptcy court for five years and accused him of repeatedly abusing the system.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/blacks-for-trump-founder-maurice-symonette-banned-from-bankruptcy-court-for-abusing-system-10764071
October 12: Trump calls on blacks to ‘honor’ Republicans with votes, then praises Confederate general Robert E. Lee
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-calls-on-blacks-to-honor-him-with-votes-then-praises-confederate-general-robert-e-lee/2018/10/12/ab819a9c-ce33-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b6efc8575da4
October 26: The young black Americans backing Trump
Young black conservatives wore Make America Great Again caps and chanted the president's name at the White House.
Mr Trump won just 8% of the African American vote in the 2016 presidential election and critics accuse him of stoking racial tensions.
But he told the activists that the black community was more interested in the economy than race.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-45997233/the-young-black-americans-backing-trump
November 2: Cohen told Vanity Fair the comment came during a conversation he had with Trump following his return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle
Cohen noticed that the crowd was mostly Caucasian and told Trump of his observation.
“I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television,” Cohen said. “Trump responded, ‘That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.’”
https://nypost.com/2018/11/02/michael-cohen-trump-said-black-people-are-too-stupid-to-vote-for-me/
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November 4: TRUMP, on attracting the nonwhite vote from Democrats: "We have the best unemployment numbers, the best median income numbers for all of these groups. We have the best numbers we've ever had. ...They should be worried about the African-Americans, because they're going to lose them." — Fox interview Monday.
THE FACTS: He did not achieve the best median income numbers for all the nonwhite groups. Both African-Americans and Asian-Americans had higher income prior to the Trump administration.
https://www.theoaklandpress.com/news/fact-check/fact-check-trump-spreads-distortions-on-immigration/article_207e2d6e-e046-11e8-855b-a3b62c701ab3.html
November 4: The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside."
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The amendment was ratified in 1868 and was intended to extend citizenship to former slaves who’d been recently freed following the Civil War. The amendment goes on to forbid states from denying anyone "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2018/nov/04/blog-posting/would-trumps-own-son-be-affected-order-eliminating/
Undated: Located in West Potomac Park, MLK’s National Memorial was unveiled in 2011. Dr. King is the first African American to be honored with a memorial along the National
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2018/mlk-memorials-fd.html#quest1
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February 5: AP FACT CHECK: Trump on unemployment for blacks, Latinos
A look at one of President Donald Trump’s statements from his State of the Union address on Tuesday night and how it compares with the facts:
TRUMP: “African-American, Hispanic-American and Asian-American unemployment have all reached their lowest levels ever recorded.”
THE FACTS: What he’s not saying is that the unemployment rates for all three groups have gone up since reaching record low levels.
Black unemployment reached a record low, 5.9 percent, in May, but rose to 6.8 percent in January.
The African-American rate is still nearly double the jobless rate for whites, at 3.5 percent.
The most dramatic drop in black unemployment came under President Barack Obama, when it fell from a recession high of 16.8 percent in March 2010 to 7.8 percent in January 2017.
https://www.apnews.com/e1afa3f19a054540a7c34ca193bdd9ae
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March 14: What Blacks Have Already Lost Under Trump
When candidate Donald Trump appealed for African American votes in the 2016 campaign, he famously asked, “What the hell do you have to lose?”
According to U. S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Blacks have ruefully found out under now-President Trump, to their detriment.
What rights and protections have African Americans lost? “Off the top of my head,” she said, answering a question at Sunday’s Journal-isms Roundtable from Lottie Joiner, editor of the NAACP’s Crisis magazine, “essentially, the assault on civil rights.
“Almost every cabinet secretary that he appointed, he gave them a mission of destroying and dismantling this agency that they were in charge of. And most of those agencies have civil rights areas. So you’re talking about education, you’re talking about the Environmental Protection Agency, if you’re talking about Health and Human Services, if you’re talking about the Department of Justice. So it’s the elimination, or the watering down, of civil rights protections across the board.
https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2019/03/14/what-blacks-have-already-lost-under-trump/
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April 1: President Trump announced Monday the First Step Act had undone a policy of former President Bill Clinton that had "devastated" African Americans.
The First Step Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that looks to reform the criminal justice system, was signed into law in December. It passed the House 358-36 and the Senate by an 87-12 vote.
The act reverses sentencing provisions that were put in place in the 1990s during Clinton’s administration. Trump said those laws disproportionately affected the African American community, celebrating the First Step Act for undoing those provisions.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-says-he-has-undone-a-wrong-bill-clinton-did-to-blacks
April 9: Race in America 2019
Public has negative views of the country’s racial progress; more than half say Trump has made race relations worse
More than 150 years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, most U.S. adults say the legacy of slavery continues to have an impact on the position of black people in American society today. More than four-in-ten say the country hasn’t made enough progress toward racial equality, and there is some skepticism, particularly among blacks, that black people will ever have equal rights with whites, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/04/09/race-in-america-2019/
-- 2020 --
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