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“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people learned that…

— Howard Zinn

“The challenge is more difficult because low-income African Americans today confront not only segregation but also the income stagnation and blocked mobility faced by…

— Richard Rothstein

“African Americans own 2.7 percent of the nation’s wealth, and make up 40 percent of the incarcerated population.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those, I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like…

— Donald Trump

“Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?”

— Steven D. Levitt

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…

— Edward E. Baptist

“...would factor into a wealth disparity of white Americans having an average net worth ten times that of black Americans by the turn of…

— Wilkerson Isabel

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson