Tag: BLACK AMERICA

King Charles III is touring the Caribbean for nine days, but it won't be a pleasant trip. Everybody is talking about his need to apologize for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade. But what good will an apology do? Black folks have become so accustomed to accepting symbolic gestures that we mistake them for progress. An apology doesn't require a check or a policy change. All it does is allow powerful people to feel less guilty about historical injustices while keeping everything they gained from those wrongs.

After hitting historic lows just a few years ago, Black unemployment surged to 8.3% — the highest spike since the Covid-19 pandemic — leaving the jobless rate for Black workers more than double that of white Americans. Pair that disturbing statistic with a falling Black homeownership rate and a systematic rollback of DEI initiatives, and the National Urban League's alarm starts to look like a diagnosis: Black America is already in a recession.

MAGA supporters have long used controversial stunts, hateful conspiracy theories and straight-up lies to rage-bait Black Americans. But while those tactics might have drawn a crowd before, we have grown tired. We are not falling for it anymore.