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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My dad taught me to never argue with an idiot because an observer can’t tell the difference. On an aside, I hope Clyburn’s island does not tip over.
Dope
Yes. They will outdo themselves.
Census results show substantially more negroes were not enslaved than were. There has been some research but it is, as you might suspect, not politically correct to validate this reality.
(Insert photo of screaming, White trans (fake) woman with rainbow fag...er...I mean flag.
My bad🙄
Clyburn is a grade-A nutjob.
@WhipClyburn
“African Americans “were fully employed during slavery.””
So, you compare gainful, respectable employment for Blacks to slavery.....and as you try to poison their minds with racist blather, you have the nerve to claim you’re working FOR them....pathetic as it comes..
I don't think he's crazy. I think he's learned to do this race baiting crap for so long, it just comes naturally to him.
Existing social pressures have made race baiting profitable, and that's why a lot of people do it.
Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
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