1989: Trump told Bryant Gumbel that if he were starting out he'd like to be a "well educated black"

[Miles Archer]

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In 1989, Trump told Bryant Gumbel, "a well educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well educated white in terms of job market."

"Sometimes a black may think they don't have the advantage..." Then he says if he were starting out he'd like to be a "well educated black"

Link to tweet

[marble falls]

1. He needed to refine that: Black women are the highest educated demographic in the US.

Black women become most educated group in US

The percentage of black students attending college has increased over the last 30 years

Samuel Osborne
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Friday 3 June 2016 08:37

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-women-become-most-educated-group-in-us-a7063361.html

Black women are now the most educated group in US, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Between 2009 and 2010, black women earned 68 per cent of associate's degrees, 66 per cent of bachelor's degrees, 71 per cent of master's degrees and 65 per cent of all doctorate degrees awarded to black students.

The percentage of black students attending college has increased from 10 per cent to 15 per cent from 1976 to 2012, while the percentage of white students fell from 84 to 60 per cent.

By both race and gender, a higher percentage of black women (9.7 per cent) is enrolled in college than any other group, including Asian women (8.7 per cent), white women (7.1 per cent) and white men (6.1 per cent).

[Solomon]

2. Damn. You totally missed the point.

What he said is bullshit and a lie.

[marble falls]

3. That was then, this is now. I missed nothing - he was obliquely referring to the mythical ...

reverse discrimination/affirmative action threat to white males. I was there when he said it and I knew he was as full of shit then as I know he was, now.

[ehrnst]

4. The racist view of the world in a nutshell

Talk about "the politics of envy..."

Obama is everything that he wants to be but can't... and does it while being black.