{"id":1034798,"date":"2024-06-06T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1034798"},"modified":"2024-06-06T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:59:05","slug":"byron-donalds-doubles-down-on-suggesting-black-americans-were-better-off-under-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/byron-donalds-doubles-down-on-suggesting-black-americans-were-better-off-under-jim-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Donalds DOUBLES DOWN on Suggesting Black Americans Were Better Off Under Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to Byron Donalds doubling down on his shameful suggestion that Black Americans were better off under Jim Crow, <\/em>DNC Senior Spokesperson Marcus W. Robinson released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust like Trump, his VP wannabes can\u2019t admit when they\u2019re wrong. Instead of apologizing for rewriting the horrifying history of Jim Crow for Black families, Byron Donalds chose to double down. Let\u2019s be clear: no one should look back on the Jim Crow era of legalized segregation and oppression of Black communities with rose-colored glasses, and certainly no one fit to step foot into the Oval Office does so. The dangerous, out-of-touch extremism Trump and his MAGA allies push every day has no place in America, and voters will make that clear in November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump VP contender Byron Donalds doubled down on his suggestions that Black families were better off under Jim Crow\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abby Phillip, CNN<\/a>: \u201cA lot of people\u2026 are offended by the idea that you would repeat Jim Crow three times in your comments, as if to suggest that was a time period\u2026 it sounds like nostalgia. Do you regret using that timeframe as a reference?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Byron Donalds: \u201c…I didn\u2019t even insinuate that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phillip: \u201cYou\u2019re suggesting that because the Black family was together, they were better off than they are now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donalds: \u201c…I never suggested that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 after Donalds initially made these comments at a Black voter outreach event in Pennsylvania this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>: \u201cAt another point, Donalds said he is starting to see the \u2018reinvigoration of Black family,\u2019 which he described as younger people forming nuclear family units and \u2018helping to breathe the revival of a Black middle class in America.\u2019 He went on to say that those family values had previously been eroded by Democratic policies that Black voters embraced after becoming loyal to the party due to the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative \u2014 Black people have always been conservative-minded \u2014 but more Black people voted conservatively,\u2019<\/strong> he said. \u2018And then H.E.W., Lyndon Johnson \u2014 you go down that road, and now we are where we are,\u2019 he added, referring to the former U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Trump\u2019s tax handouts for the ultra-wealthy, attempts to repeal the ACA, and moves to gut affordable housing programs disproportionately left behind and threatened Black communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cWhite Americans Gain the Most From Trump\u2019s Tax Cuts, a Report Finds\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a result, the average tax cut going to a white American household is more than double one going to a black or Latino one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhite Americans earn about 77 percent of total income in the United States, but they are getting nearly 80 percent of the benefits of the individual and business tax cuts generated by the new law, the analysis found. African Americans received about 5 percent of the benefits, despite earning 6 percent of the nation\u2019s income.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF<\/a>: The number of uninsured Black Americans increased by nearly 300,000 during the first two years of Trump\u2019s administration, which marked the first increase in the Black uninsured rate since 2013.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe Tax Break for Children, Except the Ones Who Need It Most\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile Republicans say the increase shows concern for ordinary families, 35 percent of children fail to receive the full $2,000 because their parents earn too little, researchers at Columbia University found. A quarter get a partial sum and 10 percent get nothing. Among those excluded from the full credit are half of Latinos, 53 percent of [B]lacks and 70 percent of children with single mothers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy enriching the credit and including the affluent, the Trump expansion itself has brought attention to the poor children it excludes. While the 2017 law made millions of upper-income families eligible for the $2,000 credit (in part to offset the loss of other tax benefits), it gave a boost of just $75 to most full-time workers at the minimum wage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cOverall, Trump\u2019s budget would cut $8.6 billion from housing programs, a 15 percent reduction. Deeper cuts, to the tune of 43 percent, would hit public housing funds while also eliminating programs such as the National Housing Trust Fund, Home Investment Partnerships, Community Development Block Grant and Choice Neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration will introduce a new rule on Monday that may reshape the way the government enforces fair housing law, making it harder for people to bring forward discrimination complaints under the Fair Housing Act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Byron Donalds doubling down on his shameful suggestion that Black Americans were better off under Jim Crow, DNC Senior Spokesperson Marcus W. Robinson released the following statement:  \u201cJust like Trump, his VP wannabes can\u2019t admit when they\u2019re wrong. Instead of apologizing for rewriting the horrifying history of Jim Crow for Black families, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nByron Donalds DOUBLES DOWN on Suggesting Black Americans Were Better Off Under Jim Crow - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/byron-donalds-doubles-down-on-suggesting-black-americans-were-better-off-under-jim-crow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-06T14:58:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-06T14:59:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/signal-2024-05-21-225610_002.png?w=780\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/byron-donalds-doubles-down-on-suggesting-black-americans-were-better-off-under-jim-crow\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/byron-donalds-doubles-down-on-suggesting-black-americans-were-better-off-under-jim-crow\/\",\"name\":\"Byron Donalds DOUBLES DOWN on Suggesting Black Americans Were Better Off Under Jim Crow - 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