Claim: "The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."
Fact-check: Group: Black Texans have higher unemployment rate than whites and earn less than they did in 2000 
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Alex Wilts
Date published: 2015-04-23T00:00:00