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>> let me give you -- >> give you stats. in the year 2000. all right, when president bush was elected, first term. black unemployment was below 8%. it went up a little bit and down again in 2007. to 8%. under president obama that has risen from when the president took office, it was about 10%. it has riz o risen to 14%. there has been with everybody else, may have been a flow in black unemployment. let me ask you this: i believe that the primary problem in the african-american community is out of wedlock birth. 71%. that drives poverty. it makes educating kids harder because they are not super...

Why? >> well, i think first of all, african-americans have immense pride in president obama as a president. they see it as a major accomplishment in this country. and embracing an african-american leader. and they are positive and hopeful, probably, more than anything else, that his leadership will make their lives better. >> all right, but it didn't turn out that way. he had four years to improve. the black unemployment rate. and it's not improving. so are you saying that african-american community en masse is voting on hope. hope it will get better but it hasn't gotten better. >> yeah. i wou...

>> let me give you -- >> give you stats. in the year 2000. all right, when president bush was elected, first term. black unemployment was below 8%. it went up a little bit and down again in 2007. to 8%. under president obama that has risen from when the president took office, it was about 10%. it has riz o risen to 14%. there has been with everybody else, may have been a flow in black unemployment. let me ask you this: i believe that the primary problem in the african-american community is out of wedlock birth. 71%. that drives poverty. it makes educating kids harder because they are not super...

Why? >> well, i think first of all, african-americans have immense pride in president obama as a president. they see it as a major accomplishment in this country. and embracing an african-american leader. and they are positive and hopeful, probably, more than anything else, that his leadership will make their lives better. >> all right, but it didn't turn out that way. he had four years to improve. the black unemployment rate. and it's not improving. so are you saying that african-american community en masse is voting on hope. hope it will get better but it hasn't gotten better. >> yeah. i wou...

>> let me give you -- >> give you stats. in the year 2000. all right, when president bush was elected, first term. black unemployment was below 8%. it went up a little bit and down again in 2007. to 8%. under president obama that has risen from when the president took office, it was about 10%. it has riz o risen to 14%. there has been with everybody else, may have been a flow in black unemployment. let me ask you this: i believe that the primary problem in the african-american community is out of wedlock birth. 71%. that drives poverty. it makes educating kids harder because they are not super...