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Is the argument that poverty was lower during Jim Crow or that individual poverty is higher now?

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/09/black-poverty-rate.html

Edit to add:

There was full Black employment on slave plantations.

2nd Edit to add:

Enslaved Black people had the benefit of learning skills during slavery.

Conservatives actually think these statements make sense

Even Robert Woodson has a video snippet voicing his agreement

The days of rational Black Conservatives like Jackie Robinson, Edward Brooke, and Colin Powell are gone. They are spinning in their graves. Each day reinforces Clay Cane’s book, “The Grift” Clarence Thomas is an honorable man who loves taking simple trips in his motor home. LOL.

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