African american Quote by James Forman Jr

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“While this number puts the economic fragility of America’s families in a new light, the shocking statistic is that nine out of every ten…

— Thomas Shapiro

“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

“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.”

— Karl Alexander

“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other “color-blind” New…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

— Hill Harper

I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural…

— Charles Rangel

Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be…

— Walter E. Williams

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“From 1960 to 1970, as the New Deal expanded into the Great Society, the number of Americans in poverty declined from 40 million to…

— Ian Haney López

Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at…

— Rick Santorum

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people…

— Julianne Malveaux