Posted on 02/19/2020 2:43:31 PM PST by yesthatjallen
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) pushed back on Fox News’s Neil Cavuto’s citation of record low African American unemployment, saying African Americans “were fully employed during slavery.”
The subject came up when Cavuto asked Clyburn, who has yet to make an endorsement ahead of the South Carolina primaries, if he would support the Democratic nominee if it was former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
"I'm going to back whoever our nominee is. Absolutely,” said Clyburn, the top African American Democrat in Congress.
"Even with the things he has said about African Americans? Does that bother you?" Cavuto asked. Bloomberg has blamed the 2008 financial crisis on the end of racially discriminatory “redlining” practices and defended the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which disproportionately targeted minority youths.
"Well, not as much as what Trump has said about African Americans," Clyburn said. "Any time that I go to the polls, I'm considering positives and negatives on all candidates. And I try to go with the one whose positives outweigh the negatives."
Pressed by Cavuto on record low African American unemployment under the Trump administration, Clyburn called the numbers “not true,” adding, "I'm saying that the African American unemployment is not the lowest it's ever been unless you count slavery … We were fully employed during slavery. So it all depends how you measure this up."
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Now that President Trumps' economy (or is that Obamas' economy?) has given blacks almost full employment it's almost no different from 'slavery'.
Liberal logic.
Having jobs is like slavery.
Clyburn is a major racist and would be black supremacist, IMHO.
There isn’t any way to please him short of making the USA into South Africa.
What has Trump said about AA???
All it takes is one Leftard...
[(or is that Obama’s economy?)]
It isn’t. Except to lying Democrat politicians.
Oops that was redundant.
Government provided healthcare will also be like slavery ... one Master.
So Clyburn is saying slavery wasn’t so bad?
I don’t understand what he’s getting at.
Liberal logic indeed.
One of the major oxymorons in the multiverse.
Guess that idiot has not yet learned of the Democrat plantation.
Where, as in the Hotel California, you can check in, but you cannot check out.
What is he referring to?
Just like all those Egyptians who (may have) built the Pyramids. They were ‘fully employed’ too, but under terrible, inhumane conditions. Should Blacks have been ‘counting their blessings’ under Slavery and remained on the Plantation?
Is that what you’re saying, Mr. Clyburn?
Vote democrat to bring back slavery and 100% African-American employment /s
Clyburn is a pitiful muffin
Its surprising his IQ allows speech, much less logic
“Well, not as much as what Trump has said about African Americans,”
What is he referring to?
At a *definitive* 0-for-16, she gave up and called me closed-minded.
I will bet Clyburn’s family owned slaves!
What a stupid, stupid analogy...Consider the source...
Clyburn and his followers prefer the certainty of a government check that they don’t have to earn to a paycheck from a real job that they do. It is that simple.
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