It's not as if we didn't have an effective unemployment rate among African American men. Depends on whose data, whose statistics, who's doing the fact checking and for what reason they're doing the fact checking. But African American unemployment here in this city has been anywhere from 30 to 40, 50% even before Barack Obama was elected. elected. So are Tavists smiling? Is he holding the president from that era, even when times were good, George W. Bush or Bill Clinton to that same standard. (26:32–26:48)
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Asserts high unemployment rates among African Americans in the city before Obama's presidency.
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