Black People Went Backwards Under Obama
Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama.
Millions of Americans suffered a loss of wealth during the recession and the sluggish recovery that followed.
But the last half-decade has proved far worse for black and Hispanic families than for white families, starkly widening the already large gulf in wealth between non-Hispanic white Americans and most minority groups, according to a new study from the Urban Institute. -Annie Lowrey 
One of the things that turned up, during a long-overdue cleanup of my office, was an old yellowed copy of the New York Times dated July 24, 1992. One of the front-page headlines said: "White-Black Disparity in Income Narrowed in 80's, Census Shows." The 1980s? Wasn't that the years of the Reagan administration, the "decade of greed," the era of "neglect" of the poor and minorities, if not "covert racism"?
More recently, during the administration of America's first black president, a 2011 report from the Pew Research Center has the headline, "Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics." -Thomas Sowell
"The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category."-PBS's Tavis Smiley
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During Obama’s tenure, the percentage of black Americans struggling below the poverty line has advanced, according to the most recent Census Bureau data, from 25.8 in 2009 to 26.2 in 2014 — up 1.6 percent. Real median income among black households during those years, according to the Census Bureau, sank from $35,954 to $35,398 — down 1.5 percent.
The number of black food-stamp participants exploded across that time frame from 7,393,000 to 11,699,000, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports — up 58.2 percent.
"He was too eloquent, too cool, too passive. I just can't give him a good grade in terms of civil rights for black people. We didn’t get anything, really."
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Since the end of the recession, the overall unemployment rate has fallen from 9.4 to 9.1 percent, while the black unemployment rate has risen from 14.7 to 16.2 percent, according to the Department of Labor. This May, black male employment fell to the lowest level since the government began keeping track in 1972. Only 56.1 percent of black men over age 20 were working, compared with 68.3 percent of white men.
“The country’s back to pretty much where it was when this president started. White people in this country are doing a bit better. Black people are doing a full point worse.”
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The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels since the U.S. government began tabulating them a quarter-century ago. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data.
"We thought our dreams would be more visible under Obama. They're not."
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Mar 2015: The National Urban League released its 2015 State of Black America report Thursday, with the civil rights group’s chief declaring that “Black America is in crisis.”... “Black America is in crisis — a jobs crisis, a justice crisis and an education crisis,” Marc Morial told CBS News.
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Fewer African Americans say blacks and whites get along well today than felt that way in 2009, according to a new Pew Research Center/USA Today poll... since 2009, the share of black respondents who had a positive view of race relations has dropped twelve points, to 64 percent.
Black Share Of Murder Victims
Hope And Change under Barack Obama
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Jul 2014: The unemployment rate for black Americans is more than double that of white Americans, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In the numbers released today, covering the month of June, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for black Americans age 16 and over was 10.7%, reported the BLS.
"Things have improved from the dark days of the recession, but the recovery for African Americans has not been as fast or as deep as it’s been for whites."
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Black unemployment, which at the end of the Bush administration broke a decades-long pattern of being twice white unemployment, has resumed its disturbing and prolonged trend under President Obama, with the rate among African Americans now at 13.4 percent, according to a new Pew Research report.
The Urban League’s National Equality Index found black Americans going backwards economically, from 57.4 percent equality with whites in 2009 to 55.8 percent in 2015 — down 2.8 percent.
Tyrone Melendez is a black man who did not vote, and the result is fine with him... He also looks around at his own community and sees the unfulfilled promise of the years of President Obama, for whom he voted twice.
Persistent wealth, income, and education gaps continue to devastate the black working class in America, he says. For those reasons and more, he’s now a supporter of Trump.
Conventional wisdom now holds that Donald Trump is president because he identified the angry white counterparts of black voters who have watched the world pass them by election after election. Maybe black voters are angry, too. And maybe with Donald Trump, of all people, they’ll get some political respect that matters. - Daniel Henninger