The Black unemployment rate sank to 4.7 percent in April 2023, the lowest level ever since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started reporting job rates by ethnicity in 1970, The Wall Street Journal reports, even headlinng it with “Job Prospects for Black Workers Have Never Been Better – In Ways That Might Last… Tight market means better-paying, more-stable occupations that could provide resilience in potential recession,” optimism uncharacteristic of a Murdoch-owned media outlet.
So if African-American unemployment is now at the lowest number in history, median income the highest, and you then add all of the other things I have done, how do Democrats, who have done NOTHING for African-Americans but TALK, win the Black Vote? And it will only get better!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2018
Of course we could’ve just written “Black unemployment sank to lowest level ever in April 2023” and left it at the first paragraph without crediting Biden or adding that Trump tweet, leaving it to our readers to bring it up. But he and his fanboys started this lame attempt to hold up as an excuse for their blatant racism, so it’d be malpractice not to respond in kind. Besides serving as second-in-command to the first ever Black president, elevating the first ever Black woman to Vice President, nominating the first ever Black woman to the Supreme Court, nominating the first ever Black Secretary of Defense, hiring the first ever Black White House Press Secretary, signing all sorts of legislation and executive orders to benefit African Americans, it’s safe to say (again) that on top of all of that, in the one actually quantifiable way that Trump claimed he was the greatest president ever for Blacks, Joe Biden has now bested him. Orange lives don’t matter here.