Jared Kushner under fire for ‘blatant disrespect’ after suggesting black people are lazy

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, provoked outrage after telling Fox and Friends on Monday that President Trump’s policies would be good for the Black community, but seemed to imply that some Black people don’t “want to be successful.”

“One thing we’ve seen in a lot of the Black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about," he told the hosts, “but he can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”

The comments quickly provoked outrage and disbelief that Mr Kushner seemed to be writing off the work ethic of an entire community. Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney who is representing the family of Breonna Taylor, tweeted that, “This blatant DISRESPECT shows he has NO understanding of the Black community.”