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The Black Book

Middleton A. Harris

A new edition of the classic Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to marauding European traders.  Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters fo...

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The Megyn Kelly Show

It discussed how Black Americans experienced improved economic conditions under Donald Trump's presidency, including lower unemployment and poverty rates, compared to the Obama administration.

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The blacks in this country fared far better economically under under President Trump prior to the pandemic than they ever did under under President Obama.

— Episode: New Battle in Left's War on Joe Rogan, a...

Episode: New Battle in Left's War on Joe Rogan, and Black P...

It discussed how Black Americans experienced improved economic conditions under Donald Trump's presidency, including lower unemployment and poverty rates, compared to the Obama administration.

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The blacks in this country fared far better economically under under President Trump prior to the pandemic than they ever did under under President Obama.

And that's one of the reasons I wanted to write that this book. It's a story that I think was was underreported because the media largely had it in for President Trump from day one.

They were quite surprised that he won the election and then spent all of his presidency resisting him instead of covering him.

And and if they had done their job and reported what was happening in terms of economic inequality under President Trump, they would have had a great story to tell about shrinking income inequality, something they obsess over.

And and what this really was is a function of the working class writ large getting a boom under Trump. And it just so happens that blacks are disproportionate, disproportionately represented among the working class.

Episode: New Battle in Left's War on Joe Rogan, and Black P...

It highlighted the improved economic conditions for Black Americans under the Trump administration, which was often underreported by the media, focusing on shrinking income inequality and record low unemployment rates.

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The blacks in this country fared far better economically under under President Trump prior to the pandemic than they ever did under under President Obama.

And if they had done their job and reported what was happening in terms of economic inequality under President Trump, they would have had a great story to tell about shrinking income inequality, something they obsess over.

And what this really was is a function of the working class writ large getting a boom under Trump. And it just so happens that blacks are disproportionate, disproportionately represented among the working class.

So we saw racial inequality shrinking under under President Trump, who was presented in the media as this bigot whose policies would harm the prospects of blacks.

Instead, we saw record low unemployment rates, record low poverty rates. And we saw the wages of black workers rising at a faster rate than the wages of white workers.

Episode: New Battle in Left's War on Joe Rogan, and Black P...

It detailed how Black Americans experienced improved economic conditions under Donald Trump's presidency, including lower unemployment and poverty rates, a fact often overlooked by the media.

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The blacks in this country fared far better economically under under President Trump prior to the pandemic than they ever did under under President Obama.

And that's one of the reasons I wanted to write that this book. It's a story that I think was was underreported because the media largely had it in for President Trump from day one.

They were quite surprised that he won the election and then spent all of his presidency resisting him instead of covering him.

And and if they had done their job and reported what was happening in terms of economic inequality under President Trump, they would have had a great story to tell about shrinking income inequality, something they obsess over.

And and what this really was is a function of the working class writ large getting a boom under Trump. And it just so happens that blacks are disproportionate, disproportionately represented among the working class.

The Rubin Report

It was described as a book about how good the economy was for black Americans, unprecedentedly good, during a certain period. The speaker noted that the author disliked Trump but valued truth more.

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he wrote this book the black boom and the guy can't stand trump but he also loves truth more than he can't stand trump so he writes a book about how good the economy was for blacks unprecedentedly goo...

— Episode: Why Are We More Divided Than During the...

Episode: Why Are We More Divided Than During the Civil War?...

It was described as a book about how good the economy was for black Americans, unprecedentedly good, during a certain period. The speaker noted that the author disliked Trump but valued truth more.

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he wrote this book the black boom and the guy can't stand trump but he also loves truth more than he can't stand trump so he writes a book about how good the economy was for blacks unprecedentedly good

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