Posted on 01/31/2018 2:40:34 PM PST by blam
Many members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) refused to stand or applaud when President Donald Trump touted the historically low level of black unemployment during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. Left-wing media, however, gleefully reported a camera shot that showed CBC members grimacing in their seats. “Unemployment claims have hit a 45-year low,” Trump said. “African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded, and Hispanic American unemployment has also reached the lowest levels in history.”
Video of the African Kente cloth-clad CBC members sitting and staring unamused filled the internet with breakneck speed.
While the CBC’s official Twitter account noted that the black unemployment rate began falling in 2011, the historically low level of black unemployment that President Trump touted during his address hit its lowest level during his tenure as Breitbart News noted in real time on Tuesday night:
According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, seasonally adjusted unemployment for African Americans in January 2018 hit 6.8%, the lowest figure ever posted for that statistic since it began being published in 1972. The numbers is down 1.1% from the 7.9% seasonally adjusted black unemployment rate in the last full month of President Barack Obama’s term.
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Racists!
The White Caucus here in our house stood out of respect. Screw the racists.
Bet they would have applauded if Trump announced reparations. Their constituents don’t want to work.
one guy looks white. If so, sitting with CDC which wont allow him to become a member ?...useful tool. If not, nevermind.
“one guy looks white.”That’s Liz Warren’s husband.
That's the tragedy. That they identify more with Africa, than with being American. And they're probably many generations removed from African heritage, if they had any. Plus identifying with Democrat puppet-masters makes it more of a tragedy, showing they would rather be slaves to Democrat bosses than be truly free under a prosperous Trump-led America.
How you gonna keep dem Negroes down on the DemonRat Plantation unless you keep ‘em poor and stupid?
I remember the "once we were kings" period of black pride and I thought: "Yeah....but we're the country that was proud to get RID of kings."
thanx.
"We were kings" was an Irish thing before it was a Black thing. It meant the Irish weren't always despised peasants but had a culture they could be proud of. And to play devil's advocate, maybe getting rid of kings while keeping slavery wasn't something to be so proud of.
It certainly looks like that (for the politicians, not necessarily the average people); when a whole industry is built on racial grievance (even manufactured grievance), why would they cheer as their trade becomes obsolete?
As one writer labeled this view: DEFEATED.
Once gerrymandering became normal and acceptable, it ensured blacks would always be on the outside looking in politically (regardless of which party is in power). As some blacks succeed and move to suburbs, those suburbs eventually become absorbed into a gerrymandered dump with a race huckster representing it. Imagine being a squared-away black person with people like Maxine Waters or Sheila Jackson Lee as your representative...
They will never have common ground politically with any non-black representatives; they are elected to panhandle from the constituents of other representatives.
Aim to please. I have nothing but the same derision they show those not of their ilk to toss back at them. Regards.
That’s G. K. Butterfield from North Carolina. Both of his parents were mixed race.
Keep in mind, it was the northern states who first brought slaves to our country. And Massachusetts didn't want to emancipate them. They were afraid they would have to keep supporting them. Tell that to Elizabeth Warren. LOL
hey...thanks. Looks like he IS a CBC member.
Good comment
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