{"id":20134,"date":"2026-07-23T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=20134"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:43:05","slug":"ramaswamy-claims-black-americans-were-better-off-in-the-1960s-during-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/ramaswamy-claims-black-americans-were-better-off-in-the-1960s-during-jim-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaswamy Claims Black Americans Were Better Off in the 1960s During Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Special to The Truth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an unearthed clip, Vivek Ramaswamy claimed that Black Americans were better off in the 1960s during Jim Crow, called affirmative action a &#8220;cancer on our national soul&#8221; and claimed it was &#8220;a form of psychological slavery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy: &#8220;Supposed aid from Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society that actually rolled back some of the benefits that Black families enjoyed, like a stable family foundation in the 1960s, no longer the case today in part because the government gave them an incentive to live in single-parent households rather than dual-parent households. Affirmative Action, effectively a cancer on our national soul in part because it\u2019s a form of psychological slavery that holds Black Americans back by teaching them they can\u2019t get ahead without actually someone giving them a boost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t Ramaswamy\u2019s first out-of-touch comment about Black Americans. In an unearthed racist, anti-abortion rant, Ramaswamy said that &#8220;a Black baby is probably safer in the inner city of Chicago than in the womb of his own Black mother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, Vivek Ramaswamy has revealed his disgusting views of Black Americans. He\u2019s out of touch with Black Ohioans and would rather disparage them than do anything to lower costs, tackle corruption or fight for working families. Ohio cannot afford Vivek Ramaswamy,\u201d said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to The Truth In an unearthed clip, Vivek Ramaswamy claimed that Black Americans were better off in the 1960s during Jim Crow, called affirmative action a &#8220;cancer on our national soul&#8221; and claimed it was &#8220;a form of psychological slavery.&#8221; Ramaswamy: &#8220;Supposed aid from Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society that actually rolled back some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[357],"class_list":["post-20134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20135,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20134\/revisions\/20135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20134"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=20134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}