Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170521:17:54:00
The poverty rate among blacks are 24%, 9% for whites. can you separate this idea of racism from poverty, and if you don't separate them, can you get a broad support base for your agenda? >> you can't separate, you have to have an interrelated intersection or movement that helps people understand. there are 102 million working poor people. there are 14 million poor children. when you desegregate that, there are more poor people in the community. there are 8 million more poor african-americans than white people. when we look at child poverty living wage, denial of health care, and when you look ...
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