Jared Kushner criticized after saying Black Americans need to 'want to be successful'

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White House adviser and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner came under heavy criticism after he said Monday that Black Americans have to want to help themselves in order for the president's policies to help them. 

Kushner said on "Fox & Friends" that the president can help people in the Black community "break out of the problems that they're complaining about, but he can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful." 

He also said that many people in the anti-police brutality and discrimination protests that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis were "just virtue signaling" – a term for empty gestures of outrage or anguish on social media. 

"They go on Instagram and cry, or they would, you know, put a slogan on their jersey or write something on a basketball court," Kushner said, dismissing the expressions of outrage and solidarity that many made after video surfaced of Floyd being pinned with a police officer's knee on his neck. "Quite frankly, that was doing more to polarize the country than it was to bring people forward. You solve problems with solutions." 

 

Kushner's implication that Black Americans lack a drive to succeed and to address the problems facing their community drew criticism that he is blind to his own privilege and that his own success is attributable more to his family's wealth than his own efforts.

"Born on third base, thinks he hit a triple. Few in US history have been given as much wealth or power without having to earn a thing as Jared Kushner," tweeted Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va. "His father-in-law gave him the position he is failing at miserably, with deadly consequences. We will remember his casual racism." 

"Jared Kushner is the face of white privilege and nepotism. He doesn't want to change our racist, broken system because he benefits from it. He’s the last person that should be lecturing the Black community on the value of 'hard work,'" said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif. 

 

"Jared Kushner speaks as if Black people are lazy complainers who don't want to be successful," said civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who represented Floyd's family. "This blatant DISRESPECT shows he has NO understanding of the Black community and its challenges that have spanned centuries. You can't 'fix' these problems from this level of ego." 

 

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany responded to the criticism, saying in a statement that it was "disgusting to see internet trolls taking Senior Advisor Jared Kushner out of context as they try to distract from President Trump’s undeniable record of accomplishment for the Black community." 

"From criminal justice reform and record HBCU funding to record low Black unemployment and record high income increases, there is simply no disputing that President Trump accomplished what Democrats merely talked about," she said.

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Mr. Kushner’s father, Charles Kushner, a multimillionaire real estate executive, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations. He admitted hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, who was cooperating in a federal campaign finance investigation, then videotaping the sexual encounter and sending it to the man’s wife, Mr. Kushner’s sister.