Jared Kushner’s comments that Black people must “want to be successful,” ignited a social media firestorm this week. Now, former President Barack Obama is speaking out. During a drive-in campaign rally in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday (October 27), Obama said about President Trump, “he loves to talk about Black unemployment, look how low Black unemployment… unemployment was really high when I came in and we brought that unemployment low and it kept on going low.
And he wants to take credit for it, says he's the best president for Black folks since Abe Lincoln. Man. ”He continued, “Now his advisers are out there saying, including his son-in-law, his son-in-law says, Black folks have to want to be successful, that's the problem. Who are these folks? What history books do they read?”
Obama then explained how his administration, with Joe Biden as Vice President, slashed Black unemployment nearly in half. In March of 2010, the Black unemployment rate peaked at 16.8 percent when Obama left office, the rate was at 7.8 percent -- the most dramatic drop in Black unemployment in U.S. history.
As of last month, the Black unemployment rate is at staggering 12.1% and it was already increasing before the coronavirus hit, according to Business Insider.
Watch Obama’s powerful words below:
Barack Obama laced into Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser of President Donald Trump, after Kushner invoked a racist trope by implying that the lack of racial equality in the U.S. is due in part to a lack of motivation among Black Americans https://t.co/wYRmZ9XGUr pic.twitter.com/00B0KgHka5
— POLITICO (@politico) October 27, 2020
Latest Stories
-
Bawumia joins thousands in Kumasi for burial prayers for Ashanti Regional Imam
54 minutes -
Blue Gold Bogoso Prestea Limited challenges government actions in court
1 hour -
Patrick Atangana Fouda: ‘A hero of the fight against HIV leaves us’
2 hours -
Trinity Oil MD Gabriel Kumi elected Board Chairman of Chamber of Oil Marketing Companies
3 hours -
ORAL campaign key to NDC’s election victory – North America Dema Naa
3 hours -
US Supreme Court to hear TikTok challenge to potential ban
3 hours -
Amazon faces US strike threat ahead of Christmas
4 hours -
Jaguar Land Rover electric car whistleblower sacked
4 hours -
US makes third interest rate cut despite inflation risk
4 hours -
Fish processors call for intervention against illegal trawling activities
4 hours -
Ghana will take time to recover – Akorfa Edjeani
5 hours -
Boakye Agyarko urges reforms to revitalise NPP after election defeat
5 hours -
Finance Minister skips mini-budget presentation for third time
5 hours -
‘ORAL’ team to work gratis – Ablakwa
5 hours -
Affirmative Action Coalition condemns lack of gender quotas in Transition, anti-corruption teams
5 hours