Susan Rice, a top aide to President Joe Biden, claims that anti-Black racism is costing the US economy$20 trillion over the past 20 years.
“in the past years, the US GDP is in shortfall of 13 Trillion Dollars because of discrimination against black Americans,” Rice said Wednesday in a speech at the National Action Network Customs.
Condoleezza Rice, director of the US Domestic Policy Council, claims that US GDP will increase if racial discrimination is addressed “another $5 trillion”. explain. “In case you’re wondering, that’s not my math. It’s according to Citibank. We all benefit when every community has the opportunity to thrive.”
Susan Rice: Racism makes the economy smaller $12 trillion dollars pic.twitter.com/HMjF7apS74
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 13, 74
Rice cites a Citibank report titled “Closing the Racial Inequality Gap: The Economic Cost of Black Inequality in America,” which states that “$2.7 trillion will be available for Consumption, while corporate income would increase by $13 Trillion Dollars if the ‘racial disparity’ for Black Americans was eliminated, 6.1 million new jobs will be created every year,” according to the Daily Caller.
Other NAN speakers include activists and politicians such as Kerry Washington, Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Brother of Al Sharpton, Benjamin Crupp and George Floyd.
Rice claimed later in her speech that black history was being “erased” from classrooms and textbooks in states like Florida, where “critical race theory ” (CRT) are banned from public school classrooms.
“today, In states across the country, we’ve seen innocuous children’s books being banned simply because they have prominent black or brown characters,” Rice said.
. @AmbassadorRice said “Let ‘ we stand together for the facts” and then immediately told six lies, starting with the myth that states banned images from children’s books. twitter.com/RixrstxLQm
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April , 2023
“We have seen black history erased from our classrooms and textbooks. There is no doubt that those who do this are trying to Tell us we don’t count we don’t matter. Maybe we shouldn’t exist. Black history is American history,” she added. “Truth is truth. We must fight to preserve our history.”
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