Posted on 05/31/2026 10:17:27 AM PDT by simpson96
Racial justice advocates descended on Capitol Hill to slam the Trump administration’s policies that they say are an “attack on the Black economy,” as Black Americans see rising unemployment and disproportionate impacts of America’s affordability crisis.
“The state of the Black economy is under attack,” said U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), who hosted a press conference on Wednesday with coalition groups, including the NAACP, Color of Change, the National Urban League, and The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
“We are plagued by an economic crisis that is a direct result of Trump’s reckless financial policies that are precisely targeting Black communities who already carry the weight of systemic economic harm and now suffer from the daily impact of this affordability crisis felt from grocery stores to the housing market to the gas pump,” said Pressley.
The Wednesday press conference, where participants held up signs that read “Stop Silenceing Black Voices” and “Cut Costs. Not Jobs,” came as Black Americans are reeling from a 7.3% Black unemployment rate, a persistent racial wealth gap, and a myriad of economic barriers for Black workers and Black-owned businesses.
Critics of President Donald Trump say his historic cuts to the federal workforce, an anti-DEI agenda, and rollbacks of civil rights enforcement are directly and deliberately harming the Black economy. (snip)
Referring to Trump’s infamous 2024 campaign claim that immigrants were taking “Black jobs,” Pressley asserted, “Haitian migrants were never after your Black job. It was always Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and they have taken…a sledgehammer to the infrastructure of our federal workforce.” (snip)
“They are coming for the Black family, they’re coming from the Black worker…for the black voter,” she said. “This has been a systemic, coordinated, unrelenting attack. And I’m calling on every person of conscience, Independent, Republican, and Democrat, to give a damn — and especially my own party when Black people are the base of this party — to speak stridently and unapologetically to our issues.”
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In other words, the black population has realized that in fact the invaders have displaced them, voted for Trump (in greater numbers at least) and the Dems are desperate to put them back in the pen of dependency and envy since their replacement voter base isn’t working out.
“”affordability crisis””
BUZZ words from now until November 2026....
AOC Squaw speak with forked to hemorrhoid.
Just think what the black addicts and drug dealers are doing to America’s Caucasian economy.
Hurry up yo! We gotsa to get them back on the libber-plantation...................they aint black less theys votes for white liberals and a token here and there...
Black economy down?
Sales of fried chicken, water melon, ripple, cocaine, crack, and pot are dipping?
Sales of fried chicken, water melon, ripple, cocaine, crack, and pot are dipping?
That’s why we need Reparations....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LroCgg3uc
Ebonic translation:
We want mo’ free sh!t.
It’s all they ever want.
What da ho talkin’ about? The only “black economy” is made up of American taxpayer welfare dollars.
I’m sorry...when did the economy become racialized?
ANY EVIDENCE OF RISING SKILLS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY???
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THEY COULD PULL WEEDS ON MY RURAL PROPERTY
“”participants held up signs that read “Stop Silenceing Black Voices”…””
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Gerren Keith Gaynor is a DEI journalist.
The “Black Economy”???
That sounds racist ...
In fact, it is racist ... the worst race bigots in America all have dark skin.
Edited for clarity/accuracy.
“What da ho talkin’ about? The only “black economy” is made up of American taxpayer welfare dollars.”
GMTA - absolutely the first thought that jumped into my mind, too.
What are these delusional people talking about?
“The state of the Black economy is under attack,” said U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) Didn’t know there was one. Is there a White economy too?
Yeah, we are cutting off generations of freebies. That black economy?
The “black economy” has been destroyed by corruption and Socialism that comes with one party - Democratic Party - rule. They vote for any idiot (and I mean idiot) who has a D next to their name. They made a deal with the Devil at some point in the 1950s to vote for the party that gave them the most Welfare handouts and it absolutely destroyed their society.
You mean the Slave Trade?
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