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Kushner, Employing Racist Stereotype, Questions if Black Americans ‘Want to Be Successful’ - The New York Times

Kushner, Employing Racist Stereotype, Questions if Black Americans ‘Want to Be Successful’ - The New York Times

Kushner, Employing Racist Stereotype, Questions if Black Americans ‘Want to Be Successful’ - The New York Times
Oct 27, 2020 1 min, 36 secs

WASHINGTON — President Trump has repeatedly bragged about what he has done for Black America, pointing to his administration’s funding for Black colleges and universities, the creation of so-called opportunity zones and criminal justice reform.

But on Monday, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, played into a racist stereotype by seeming to question whether Black Americans “want to be successful” despite what he said Mr.

“One thing we’ve seen in a lot of the Black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about,” Mr.

Kushner said that after the killing in May of George Floyd, a Black man, in police custody — an event that set off global protests about systemic racism, and which Mr.

Trump’s frequent references to what he has claimed to have done for Black America have often been accompanied by one of the most patently false claims he has made since moving into the White House: that he has done more for Black Americans than any president with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln.

A recent CBS News poll found that 85 percent of registered Black voters felt that as president, Mr

Trump “favors white people.” About 79 percent of those voters said he “works against” Black people

Kushner said in the interview that he had been hearing from Trump campaign state directors across the country about a “groundswell of support in the Black community, because they’re realizing that all of the different bad things that the media and the Democrats have said about President Trump are not true.”

Top campaign officials have said that their goal is to win at least 10 percent of Black voters in November, and that increasing the president’s support among Black voters by as little as two percentage points could sway the election

Trump won just 8 percent of Black voters

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