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 CBCs 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 Labors 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 Obamas term.
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My, don’t they look like a bunch of absolute jerks. They look like they are about to issue a collective “DUH?”
Thanks; if we’re seeing this 150 years after the Civil War and 50 years after the “Great Society”, there is no reason to believe it won’t be around in 500 years - the only difference being the blacks will be lashing out at the Asians and Hispanics that are the next batch of “Americans”.
Hopefully enough black voters see Trump is working at ending the practice of using foreigners to take black jobs.
You’re right; I’ve seen that look before - on the faces of affirmative action “students” when they sit in a classroom surrounded by real students using big words they don’t understand...
Like work, duty, achievement and responsibility.
OK, I didn’t say that (though the last two may qualify just for length/more than two syllables).
Yes, but "woke" has replaced "work" in the Black Caucasian lexicon; and no "duty" anymore, only "booty," in both meanings.
They make a living peddling grievance; hopefully their constituents opt for the American Dream instead.
Yes
They all got the rags as presents for Kawanza
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