And we know that, as the saying goes, when white America catches a cold, black America catches pneumonia. That inequality is compounded for black New Yorkers. We lost 200,000 black New Yorkers in two decades. About 9% of the city's population of black New Yorkers. From 2010 to 2019, nearly 20% of black children and teenagers had to leave this city. And that is a crisis that has to be focused on. (38:39–38:46)
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Asserts that 200,000 black New Yorkers, or about 9% of the city's black population, have left the city in two decades.
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