Ben Shapiro

Would you say relations between white and black people are very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad, or very bad?

In 2007, before Barack Obama was president, almost 80% of white adults

And almost 60% of black adults said that race relations were good.

And by the time Barack Obama was in the middle of his second term in 2013, still just above 70% of whites thought race relations were good.

And increasingly black people thought race relations were good as well, 65%.

Then by 2015, off a cliff, by 2015,

White adults rated race relations as good, only 45%.

Black adults, that dropped to 50%.

And that just continued its decline to a low in 2021 for black adults of 32%, 33%.

Okay, that was under Barack Obama.

That is when the drop happened in the first place.

That's when it happened.

That happened for a reason.

He was racially polarizing.

Barack Obama attacked businesses.

He threatened them with the power of the populist pitchfork.

He literally said to bank CEOs in 2009 that he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks and the torches.

On the foreign policy front, Barack Obama revitalized the Iranian regime with billions of dollars in cash and a clear pathway to a nuke.

Barack Obama let Russia have its way in Ukraine and, yes, in Syria.

He let China expand its power base throughout the world.