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Media Laud Black Caucus Members Who Didn’t Applaud Trump Touting Black Unemployment
Breitbart ^ | 1-31-2018 | Jerome Hudson

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; blacks; cbc; congress; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; sotu; trumpsotu
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To: Teacher317

My, don’t they look like a bunch of absolute jerks. They look like they are about to issue a collective “DUH?”


41 posted on 01/31/2018 7:39:50 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: savedbygrace

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.


42 posted on 02/01/2018 3:38:21 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: EinNYC

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...


43 posted on 02/01/2018 3:46:20 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
they sit in a classroom surrounded by real students using big words they don’t understand..

Like work, duty, achievement and responsibility.

44 posted on 02/01/2018 3:51:03 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

OK, I didn’t say that (though the last two may qualify just for length/more than two syllables).


45 posted on 02/01/2018 3:58:09 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
OK, I didn’t say that

Yes, but "woke" has replaced "work" in the Black Caucasian lexicon; and no "duty" anymore, only "booty," in both meanings.

46 posted on 02/01/2018 4:12:15 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

They make a living peddling grievance; hopefully their constituents opt for the American Dream instead.


47 posted on 02/01/2018 4:21:29 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yes

They all got the rags as presents for Kawanza


48 posted on 02/01/2018 4:52:51 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking goodans)
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