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Clyburn argues with Neil Cavuto over African American employment numbers: 'We were fully employed during slavery'
The Hill ^ | 02 09 2020 | Zack Budryk

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: employment; oldnews; racism; slavery
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To: yesthatjallen

I would call Clyburn an Imbecile BUT that would be a gross overstatement of his intellect.


21 posted on 02/19/2020 3:03:50 PM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: silverleaf

“Clyburn is a pitiful muffin

Its surprising his IQ allows speech, much less logic”

Another poverty pimp nee overseer. Hope he meets up with Cummings soon.


22 posted on 02/19/2020 3:06:20 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: silverleaf

Clyburn is a racist idiot. Ask any white who lives in the gerrymandered majority black Sixth District.

Me, for one. One night they picked up our house & moved it and then Rep. Joe Wilson (”You Lie!!” ) was no longer our Congressman.


23 posted on 02/19/2020 3:06:41 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: BenLurkin

Workers earning a paycheck are the real slaves, as part of what we earn is confiscated and delivered to the non-working welfare recipients.


24 posted on 02/19/2020 3:08:28 PM PST by KobraKai
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To: yesthatjallen

Huh. Does Clyburn have a mouse in his pocket?


25 posted on 02/19/2020 3:10:57 PM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: yesthatjallen

SO working, earning your living, and providing for yourself, is now slavery to this a-hole? Really?


26 posted on 02/19/2020 3:12:25 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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To: yesthatjallen

He’s probably correct. The next question should surely be “what Party oversaw slavery?”.


27 posted on 02/19/2020 3:17:39 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Listening to this dirtbag explains why some people used to drag them around


28 posted on 02/19/2020 3:19:05 PM PST by Okeydoker
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To: lepton

Donald Trump was generally beloved by black America before he became President receiving countless awards and honors. If he were a Democrat President this moron would have nothing but great things about the President and what he has done for the “people of color”.


29 posted on 02/19/2020 3:20:06 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Clyburn argues with Neil Cavuto over African American employment numbers: 'We were fully employed during slavery'

See what I mean about Liberals always dragging out slavery?

30 posted on 02/19/2020 3:22:18 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty."/)
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To: yesthatjallen

Let the race baiter tell us which years he was a slave.
He’s older than I thought!


31 posted on 02/19/2020 3:28:16 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: yesthatjallen

Nonsense. More than 50% of negroes were free citizens in the first half of the 19 century, 1800-1860. Of those nearly all were farmers. Many were day laborers, frequently unemployed. Under Obama 50% were living in poverty. Under Trump that numberr has fallen below 10%.


32 posted on 02/19/2020 3:30:34 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I forget, what has Trump said that is racist?


33 posted on 02/19/2020 3:30:55 PM PST by Mercat
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To: yesthatjallen

And it’s taking another Republican President to free blacks from southern Democrat slavery.


34 posted on 02/19/2020 3:32:34 PM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: yesthatjallen

https://twitter.com/allanfavish/status/1230254753679937537


35 posted on 02/19/2020 3:34:05 PM PST by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Cavuto typically pushes the wrong point. What has Trump said about AA???

Cavuto is a NeverTrumper. HATES Trump.

36 posted on 02/19/2020 3:34:10 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: yesthatjallen
Let's take a look at the definition of "employed". employed /imˈploid/ adjective (of a person) having a paid job. Now I don't think slaves are ever paid employees. An inconvenient truth.....
37 posted on 02/19/2020 3:35:17 PM PST by Ben Mugged (He who lacks the will does not need the ability.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The dumb cuck things 100% of Blacks were slaves.

In NC at the start of the Civil War 20% of Blacks were Free Men and Yeomen Farmers.


38 posted on 02/19/2020 3:35:56 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I question the benefits packages.


39 posted on 02/19/2020 3:37:32 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: yesthatjallen

We’re hearing the death rattle.

Finally.


40 posted on 02/19/2020 3:38:16 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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