Posted on 12/21/2021 4:23:55 PM PST by Libloather
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., became the latest Democrat to attack Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in personal terms on Monday, accusing him of not caring about African Americans and other minority groups "as a White man."
The far-left Progressive Caucus member ripped Manchin on CNN over his opposition to Build Back Better, the $1.75 trillion social policy and climate package backed by the Biden White House, saying he was "tremendously frustrated" and "infuriated" with the West Virginia Democrat.
"It went from 3.5 trillion to 1.75 trillion [dollars] because him, his special interests, his donors, and lobbyists were cutting the bill for several months, because they did not want this bill to pass," Bowman said. "Why? Because this bill disproportionately supports people of color. It supports women. It supports children. It supports those who are poor and lifts them out of poverty. Why wouldn’t Manchin want to support that when this would benefit West Virginia tremendously?
"It’s tremendously frustrating for me as a Black man in America because once again, it’s an example of Joe Manchin as a White man showing that he doesn’t care about Black people, he doesn’t care about Latinos, he doesn’t care about immigrants, he doesn’t care about women, and he doesn’t care about the poor. He is a millionaire, and he has the privilege to kick the can down the road and not vote for this bill while the people in my district are suffering."
Bowman went on to suggest Manchin had been bought by lobbyists and that big money in Washington had to go, or else "we don't have a democracy." Left-wing CNN host Laura Coates, filling in for Don Lemon on his nightly program, praised Bowman for his "well-said and articulated" remarks about what is "really at stake here" and what Manchin's true motivations were.
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Yeah, if free money "lifts the poor out of poverty," then poverty should have ended long ago in the USA. Free money PERPETUATES poverty, destroys the work ethic, and passes those bad habits down from generation to generation.
My sister teaches inner city black kids in Baltimore and they always talk about getting new Nikes or a new iPhone "when mama get her paycheck" -- which is always the government welfare check being deposited.
Not to give them any advice but it would probably work better for Dems if they tried being nice instead of just attacking the guy.
This asshat is either incredibly intellectually lazy or he is just plain stupid
Bowman is incredibly stupid, even for a politician.
Once again we see the truth in this saying: The first person to bring up race is the racist.
...then again it was never the goal of Dems to lift them out of poverty but to keep them in poverty and buy their votes with free stuff...
Would someone tell this racist idiot there are a couple of blacks in West Virginia?
This is embarrassing.
Well boy howdy!
Imagine that!
A US Senator representing a state that is 94% WHITE caring about his constituants. One might even call that Democracy!
The only cotton he’s ever picked is from the aspirin bottle.
If I were Manchin I would change to Republican and name these morons as being the reason....
Tell me what in this bill helps black people..absolutely NOTHING..in fact all it does it add in another 88,000 FBI agents to target people they disagree with..that is what is in this bill..nothing more than a commie power grab
They got the coal miners union fired up too. It must suck to be a demonrat actually representing their constituents’ interests as opposed to toeing the party line.
Id love for Manchin to switch to the GOP but look at Van Drew, he became a Republican only to vote for that spending bill, along with the other 10 Republicans in the House..it was disappointing..
The Democratic Party is a cesspool and needs to be dissolved.
Damn...too bad it didn't go to -1.75 tril!
How much do you care about white people?
Mr Bowman and other Dims like him incite “racial” divisions with racist attacks on anyone who merely opposes Dim policy ideas.
Jamaal Bowman is the one who is racist.
Gimme, gimme, gimme
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