Latest Fact-Checks In Race and Ethnicity

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David Crowley
David Crowley
stated on May 16, 2024 Public appearance
“Under (the Biden) administration we have witnessed the fastest growth of Black-owned small businesses in more than 30 years.”
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By Vanessa Swales • June 28, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 13, 2024 a campaign ad
Under Joe Biden, there are “record numbers of new Black entrepreneurs.”
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By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2024
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on April 11, 2023 Senate Banking Committee press release
“For African American families in particular, the homeownership rate remains relatively unchanged since 1968, the year the Fair Housing Act was signed into law.”
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By Matthew Crowley • May 19, 2023
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 20, 2023 a speech at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
“Many law enforcement agencies didn’t submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.”
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By Cameron Carr • April 25, 2023
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 6, 2021 an interview with The Grio
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2021
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 9, 2021 a statement
“There is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the USDA and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century."
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By Miriam Valverde • February 22, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2020 an NBC town hall in Miami
The president's own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is white supremacists.
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By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2020
Sunny Hostin
Sunny Hostin
stated on July 15, 2020 an episode of ABC's "The View"
“Homicides are intraracial. When you look at white-on-white crime, it's 84%. Right? Homicides. White people kill white people.”
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By Bill McCarthy • July 17, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 12, 2020 a Facebook post
Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent, racist carnival game
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By Eric Litke • June 22, 2020
Jeanette Kowalik
Jeanette Kowalik
stated on June 14, 2020 an appearance on WISN-TV's "UpFront"
"Our health department, our city and our county declared racism as a public health crisis last year.”
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By Lawrence Andrea • June 18, 2020
Desiree Rogers
Desiree Rogers
stated on June 10, 2020 an interview on CNN
In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”
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By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2020 a USA Today op-ed
“Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.”
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By Miriam Valverde • June 11, 2020
Mac Heller
Mac Heller
stated on April 7, 2019 an interview on CNN
"The 2008 election was the first election in which voters of color comprised over 25 percent of the electorate, and that number is going up."
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By Amy Sherman • April 23, 2019
Shelia Stubbs
Shelia Stubbs
stated on March 12, 2019 a public forum
"Wisconsin (has) the highest infant mortality rate for black babies nationwide."
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By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2019
Tommie Pierson Jr.
Tommie Pierson Jr.
stated on February 18, 2019 a Missouri Legislative Black Caucus press conference
Says "zero" African Americans have presented to the House Budget Committee in 2019.
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By Sidney Steele • March 26, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2018 a rally in Wheeling, W.Va.
"Household income among Hispanic Americans has just set a new record high."
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By Matt Minard • November 1, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2018 a rally in Wheeling, W.Va.
"The poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans -- it’s been incredible, they’ve all reached their lowest levels in the history of our country."
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By Patrick Orsagos • October 23, 2018
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the vice presidential debate
Says Philando Castile "had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 27, 2016 the first presidential debate
Says Donald Trump "started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans."
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By Steve Contorno • September 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate at Hofstra University
"The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016
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