Donald Trump touts racial equality while referring to COVID-19 as 'China plague'

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Donald Trump touts racial equality while referring to COVID-19 as 'China plague'
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The re-emergence of the phrase elicited criticism across social media from many who pointed out that terms like “China plague” and “China virus” -- which experts have warned could put Asian Americans in harm’s way -- run counter to ideas of racial equality

“If you look before the plague came in from China, which should’ve never happened, they should’ve never allowed that to happen, but before that happened, we had the best black unemployment rate in the history of our country,” he said.

Kate Bahn, director of labor market policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, told USA Today that the job gains were largely at the lower end of the pay scale. This left many black and Latino workers without sufficient wealth toTrump’s “China plague" rhetoric comes days after news broke that the administration is set to cancel visas for thousands ofThe New York Times reported that further restrictions could potentially be handed down.

The president’s language has drawn backlash in the past from many in the Asian American community, who witnessed an uptick in hate crimes during the pandemic, and warned that further use could spur more anti-Asian bias across the country. Trump told Fox News in a March interview that he was moving away from the terminology, but didn’t regret using it in the past.

The timing of the increased use of “China plague” coincides with the launch of “Asian Americans for Trump” last week, a bid to appeal to the Asian American electorate, which Trump failed to capture in the last election cycle. According to a

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