CBC Whip: We Were ‘Appalled’ to Hear Trump Take Credit for Dropping Black Unemployment

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MOORE: "Ali, the Congressional Black Caucus was really appalled to hear the President — number one, take credit for the falling black unemployment rate. It is been falling, as you indicated, steadily. But still, it is twice as high as it is for white folk. And it is certainly — he didn’t talk at all about the wealth gap between blacks and whites. Whites enjoy about $111,000 of wealth versus $7,000 for African-Americans. And the — the other sort of disparities that have plagued the black community forever. It also doesn’t count those African-Americans who in my state, which we have the highest incarceration rate of African-American men in the country and arguably in the world, doesn’t count those folks as unemployed and those who have just plain old given up. It is hard for me to believe that if white men and white people experience the kind of unemployment that African-Americans experience, we wouldn’t have some kind of Marshall plan to solve this. And so we were very appalled to hear him do that."