But, as you say, it goes back and forth and in the 19th Century it was the Democrats who were known for this. Neither party has a great history with race.
Black US unemployment went from 15% (peaking at 16% a year later) in 2008 back down to 9.1% in 2016 (close to the 2007 pre-recession low).
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20111005.htm
I encourage your fact based discovery of the economic condition of this country and it's citizens.
Alternatively, we can all live in total fear of ISIS taking over the country.
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-isis-will-take-over-us-...
Going from 84% to 90.9% employment rate represents an 8.21% increase in the proportion of black people who are employed.
Going from 90% to 95% employment rate represents a 5.55% increase in the proportion of Americans who are employed.
Do they look back from todays "hellscape" recovery and remember the wonder days when we wondered how many people would lose their jobs or homes to foreclosure? Or did they rejoice when black RNC head Michael Steele was forced to kowtow Rush Limbaugh after Obama was elected?
Prior to the financial crisis it was 4.6% overall, 8.3% for blacks[1].
So now it is 8.9% worse that the per-crisis number for all employment (ie, (5-4.6)/4.6) vs 8.5% worse for blacks (ie (9-8.3)/8.3).
Sure, I'm sure you can play with the numbers to give it the spin you want, and I can spin them the other way.
But it's pretty difficult to argue that it is significantly worse now than it was before.
[1] http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/archive/r...