welcome back to worlds apart with shawn rochester the author on the black tax the cost of being black in america mr rochester we are on the eve of the presidential elections and the racial issue in the united states has always been a political issue and it's and no secret your anyone dead. certain political groups consider black voters as that poll an electorate i'm not going to name any names but do you think that party has delivered on the promises that it made to the black community. no. when you look at you know it's it's been 153 years since emancipation when you look at it's been 400 years right since black people have been in the u.s. and extracting their labor for the construction of the country and then you think that black people on about 2 percent of u.s. wealth and a disproportionately high is category almost everything that's negative i just don't say that that i don't see how anybody any working to find that is as a when well the reason i'm asking about this is because there is also an increasing our body of reach says fitch that just the problem of thought this structur