African Americans

7 statements across 6 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Kamala Harris · across every show →

Everything said about African Americans, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Harris: Open Justice data showed African Americans were 25% of in-custody deaths
“With open justice, we found African Americans are six percent of California's population, and we're almost 25% of in custody deaths.”
Kamala Harris Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:03 a16z Podcast | Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Reich: European ancestry in African Americans is four-to-one male-derived
“African Americans today have about 80% ancestry from West Africans and about 20% ancestry from Europeans with a lot of variation. But the European ancestry in African Americans comes four to one from the male side. So very little of it comes from European wome…”
David Reich Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:44 a16z Podcast | The Scientific Revolution of Ancient DNA
Jan 23, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: 50 years of affirmative action failed to help African Americans
“I think, look, I think it's clearly not working also in the, yeah, I mean, they were there, you know, with the kind of ruling on affirmative action, there were so many studies that showed that It didn't actually help African-Americans. 50 years, you know, forg…”
Ben Horowitz Jan 23, 2024 ▶ 42:04 Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
Jan 23, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Horowitz: Harvard enrolls more Nigerian than African American students
“There are more Nigerians. I believe there's more Nigerians at Harvard than African Americans.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 23, 2024 ▶ 41:11 Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
Aug 5, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: US institutions recruit African immigrants to avoid hiring African Americans
“Both the universities and the corporate employers are literally, this is true, they're literally, they literally import Africans so that they don't have to hire African Americans because they still count as black.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 5, 2025 ▶ 27:27 Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
Feb 11, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Magic Johnson: African American spending power reaches $1.4 trillion
“Right, and right now we're, what over a trillion, about 1.4 trillion dollars spending power between African Americans and Latinos is a couple trillion.”
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 42:04 Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
May 5, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
James: HBCU graduates earn 50% higher lifetime income than non-HBCU graduates
“So eight percent of African Americans that go to college go to HBCUs. But 16% of black graduates graduate from HBCUs. So twice the graduation rate. And then those graduates earn, on average, 50% higher lifetime income than black graduates of non-HBCUs.”
Tony James May 5, 2026 ▶ 1:17:29 Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
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