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IN AND AMONGST ALL OF THE BACK
AND FORTH WITH DONALD TRUMP, YOU
WERE TRYING TO GET TO THE HEART
OF AN IMPORTANT MATTER.
THE ECONOMY, WHICH THE PRESIDENT
DEPENDS ON FOR HIS POPULARITY
INSOFAR AS THAT CONTINUES TO
EXIST, DOESN’T WORK THE SAME FOR
AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
WE HAVE ALL OF THE STATISTICS TO
PROVE THAT.
YOU WERE ASKING A QUESTION ABOUT
RACIAL INEQUALITY AND HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT THE ECONOMY.
YOU DIDN’T GET WHAT YOU WERE
LOOKING FOR THERE.
>> THAT IS RIGHT.
THE PRESIDENT EVEN THOUGH IT HAS
BEEN SEVERAL DAYS WE SAW
PROTESTERS TAKE TO THE STREETS
IN ALL 50 STATES, THE PRESIDENT
NEVER REALLY TALKED ABOUT
SYSTEMIC RACISM AND HIS SPECIFIC
PLANS FOR PEOPLES’ CONCERNS.
WE SAW THE PRESIDENT TAKING A
VICTORY LAP ON THE ECONOMY WHEN
HE WAS IGNORING THE FACT THAT
BLACK AMERICANS ASK ASIAN
AMERICANS SAW AN UP TICK IN
UNEMPLOYMENT.
WE TALK ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM,
IT IS ABOUT THE FACT THAT GEORGE
FLOYD WAS KILLED BY A POLICE
OFFICER AND ABOUT THE FACT THAT
BLACK PEOPLE LIVE IN
NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE POLICED
DIFFERENTLY THAN AFFLUENT
NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE WHITE PEOPLE
LIVE AND THE SCHOOLS IN THE
NEIGHBORHOODS TURN OUT TO BE
PLACES THAT ARE NOT EQUAL.
WE SEE A PERFECT STORM OF ALL
SORTS OF RACIST PRACTICES THAT
TURN INTO THE FACT THAT THE
POLICE SHOOT A BLACK MAN MORE
THAN A WHITE MAN.
WE SEE HIM NOT SHOWING
COMPASSION AND CRITICS SAY TO
THE VICTIMS OF POLICING BUT HE
IS NOT DOING WHAT PROTESTERS ARE
DEMANDING, GIVING SOLUTIONS AND
TALKING ABOUT WHAT NEEDS TO
CHANGE.
THEY HAVEN’T DONE IT YET.
>> DONALD TRUMP CONTINUES TO
TELL EVERYBODY THAT HE IS BETTER
FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN TERMS
OF PROSPERITY.
LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAID TODAY.
>>> FOR BLACK, THE BEST
UNEMPLOYMENT THAT WE EVER HAVE.
BLACK POVERTY LEVELS ARE THE
LOWEST EVER RECORDED IN THE
HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.
NO PRESIDENT HAS DONE MORE FOR
OUR BLACK COMMUNITY.
>> ONE OF THE THINGS I AM MOST
PROUD OF IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN
ABLE TO DO FOR THE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
THE LOWEST JOB NUMBERS IN THE
HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.
WE HAVE NEVER HAD SO MANY
AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOBS EVER, EVER
IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY BY
FAR.
>> NOBODY HAS EVER DONE FOR THE
BLACK COMMUNITY WHAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP HAS DONE.
>> THAT LAST COMMENT WAS MADE
TODAY.
ABOUT YOU THIS IS OVER THE LAST
FOUR MONTHS OR SO.
WHO BELIEVES HIM?
>> NO ONE.
ESPECIALLY NOT BLACK PEOPLE.
I THINK ONE OF THE REASONS THAT
THE PRESIDENT DOES THIS IS
CYNICAL.
HE IS NOT TRYING TO WIN OVER
BLACK VOTERS.
HE IS NOT TRYING TO WIN OVER OUR
SUPPORT BY DEMONSTRATING ALL OF
THE THINGS HE HAS DONE FOR US.
ONE OF THE THINGS HE IS DOING
BECAUSE HIS RHETORIC IS OVERTLY
RACIST, HE IS TRYING TO
DEMONSTRATE TO HIS SUPPORTERS
THAT THEY CAN FEEL OKAY ABOUT
THEMSELVES.
THAT SUPPORTING HIM DOES NOT
MAKE THEM RACIST.
DONALD TRUMP SAID HE IS HELPING
THE BLACK PEOPLE.
IN ADDITIONALLY I THINK HE DOES
IT TO SUPPRESS THE VOTE AND
CONTINUE TO DO WHAT HE HAS DONE
IN 2016.
THERE IS A TWO-PRONGED THING.
IT GIVES COVER TO THE RACIST
POLICIES HE HAS BEEN
IMPLEMENTING SINCE THE BEGINNING
OF HIS PRESIDENCY.
NOW I THINK THE PANDEMIC AND THE
PROTEST MOVEMENT THAT IS BUILT
OUT OF THE POLICE KILLING OF
GEORGE FLOYD IS AN INTERESTING
MOMENT TO THINK OF IN A THROUGH
LINE THAT GOES BACK TO THE
PROTESTS AGAINST THE MUSLIM BAN,
THE PROTEST AGAINST THE CHILD
SEPARATION POLICY.
AND A GENERATIONAL FORCE.
I DON’T THINK IT IS A
COINCIDENCE THAT PARENTS AND A
LOT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS AND
YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
QUARANTINED TOGETHER, FOR MONTHS
AND THEY ARE SEEING AND ABLE TO