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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

Only a libtard can find something to hate about record blasting high employment.


41 posted on 02/19/2020 3:39:50 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just no pleasing some people.


42 posted on 02/19/2020 3:42:17 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“Cavuto typically pushes the wrong point.”

That’s because Cavuto agrees with him so it didn’t even occur to him to have Clyburn cite an example of his Trump is worse claim.


43 posted on 02/19/2020 3:47:54 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: BenLurkin

Slaves also had free health care and free housing. Just like with Socialism.


44 posted on 02/19/2020 3:50:12 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“We were fully employed during slavery.”

No they weren’t. Slavery was not employment.

It is just a ridiculous soundbite so they can throw “Trump” and “slavery” out there and get attention.

Attack the premise.


45 posted on 02/19/2020 3:51:04 PM PST by plain talk
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To: yesthatjallen

Employment definition ‘ the condition of having paid work’
No pay was received. Thus his argument is false in facts.


46 posted on 02/19/2020 3:55:24 PM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: yesthatjallen
'We were fully employed during slavery'

And the Democrats owned the Plantations!

47 posted on 02/19/2020 4:00:28 PM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: lee martell

I thought those were built by independent contractors..
Bbx


48 posted on 02/19/2020 4:02:10 PM PST by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: yesthatjallen

Given slavery was never the law in all of the country... even this claim is garbage.


49 posted on 02/19/2020 4:05:10 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: yesthatjallen

Back in the days of slavery, Southern Democrats and communists both referred to free labor as “wage slaves.” So what has changed? Clyburn is a Southern Democrat and a communist.

It is time we Republicans make it clear: Democrats offer a life of welfare dependency, along with dysfunctional families, dysfunctional communities and dysfunctional schools; drugs and crime.

Republicans aren’t even trying to compete with that agenda. What do we offer? Promotion of marriage, lives of work and self-responsibility, a vibrant economy, honor to those who keep us safe from criminals, foreign invaders and disease, and schools that are focused on actually getting and keeping a job.

To Democrats, freedom is freedom from responsibility.

To Republicans, freedom is self-responsibility.

To Democrats, all work is slavery.

To Republicans, desiring money without work is greed.


50 posted on 02/19/2020 4:13:53 PM PST by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: yesthatjallen
Clyburn is just another 80 year old, using the U.S.CONGRESS as a nursing / retirement home...and I'm damn tired of it...

AGE MATTERS...AND THESE FUTURE PRESIDENTS WANTING THE JOB, ARE AGED OUT...

BIDEN 78 IN NOV.
BERN S. 79 IN SEPT.
BLOOMY NY. 79 IN FEB. 2021

Too old to begin a new career and a job that requires you be available 24/7...none of them have the stamina to answer the call at 3 a.m. Learned today, old Bloomy had two stents installed in 2000...that says...HEART DISEASE..Bern has heart disease and Biden has neurological serious problems in his past, and dementia showing currently, slow speech, mumbled speech, and confused!!! enough said...

51 posted on 02/19/2020 5:01:09 PM PST by haircutter
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To: yesthatjallen

More Blacks Working.

Liberal Response:
“Trump is making us work again like when we were slaves!”


52 posted on 02/19/2020 5:03:15 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: shanover




....And Carlton loved him!


53 posted on 02/19/2020 5:05:59 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Liberals like Clyburn will never, ever stop using the slavery to complain about their lives. There are many people who have black skin that are highly successful (if you count being rich as being successful). Why did historical slavery not stop them? Liberals are adept at one thing: complaining.


54 posted on 02/19/2020 5:11:11 PM PST by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Projecting white guilt. It’s the only thing Clyburn has.


55 posted on 02/19/2020 5:12:03 PM PST by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: yesthatjallen
"I'm saying that the African American unemployment is not the lowest it's ever been unless IF you count slavery … We were fully employed during slavery. So it all depends how you measure this up."

That could make sense as a sentence but still be a stupid comment.

56 posted on 02/19/2020 5:14:57 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I think, and that Cavuto rat, likes to claim periodically, that President Trump is lying when he makes his claims by the numbers.

So, he likes to have guests that agree with him...Cavuto, that is...

He is discussing with Clyburn these “errors” and Clyburn is being snarky when claims the President’s numbers are wrong when he claims “the lowest unemployment among blacks.”
Slavery meant full employment.
Just his way of being a Left Wing Nut.


57 posted on 02/19/2020 5:20:27 PM PST by Maris Crane (/)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Do you have a source for the 50% were free 1800-1860?

Love having those arrows in my quiver when laying out the facts for leftards.

Things like there were more White Christians enslaved in Africa and the ME at the time of our founding than black Africans enslaved in the US.

That Sally Hemings was 3/4 or possibly 7/8 White.

58 posted on 02/19/2020 5:29:43 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: yesthatjallen

Could these black Democrats get ANY STUPIDER???


59 posted on 02/19/2020 5:46:46 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Texas Eagle

He doesn’t understand his own idiotic ramblings; no reason you should.


60 posted on 02/19/2020 5:54:07 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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