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October 27, 2020

Jared Kushner Makes Racist Comments About Black People "Complaining" About Systemic Problems
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President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is facing
widespread criticism after questioning whether African Americans want to
be successful. He made the comment on "Fox & Friends."

Jared Kushner: "One thing we've seen in a lot of the - the Black
community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump's policies
are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that
they're complaining about, but he can't want them to be successful more
than they want to be successful."

Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore of Wisconsin responded on Twitter by
writing, "Trust fund baby slumlord Kushner who has enriched himself in
the White House takes the silver spoon out of his mouth long enough to
insert his foot with a racist trope about Black people and success."


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