This of course is bullshit. The vast majority of black women are either on welfare or working for the government. Virtually none of the pioneers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who built this country were black women. And that still holds true today. They are in no sense of the term “the backbone” of our economy. A hugely disproportionate percentage of them can’t even support themselves, much less hold the entire nation on their shoulders.
But consider the fact that Democrats will speak this way about black women — spinning up a whole mythology with black women at the center of it — but Republicans would never in a million years say this, or anything like it, about white men. Even though, in the case of white men, it would actually be true.
Black women are the backbone of our economy and we all benefit from their essential contributions to our workforce & communities.
By pushing Black women out of our economy, everyone is being denied their brilliance and intellectual capital.