House Majority Whip James Clyburn dismissed President Trump’s record unemployment lows for black Americans on Tuesday by arguing that slaves were “fully employed,” too.
The South Carolina Democrat weighed in on Mr. Trump’s economy during an appearance on Fox News after host Neil Cavuto said the president had “delivered the goods for a lot of African-Americans” with record-low unemployment.
“Come on, Neil,” Mr. Clyburn responded. “It’s not true.”
“I’m saying that the African-American unemployment is not the lowest it’s ever been unless you count slavery,” the congressman said. “We were fully employed during slavery. So it all depends how you measure this up.”
When pressed on whether Mr. Trump deserves any credit for the economy, Mr. Clyburn replied, “I’ll give President Trump credit for continuing what we laid the foundation for back in 2009.”
His comment echoes that of former President Barack Obama, who on Presidents Day credited himself with “paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history.”
Mr. Trump scoffed at his predecessor’s assertion, calling it a “con job.”
“He had the WEAKEST recovery since the Great Depression, despite Zero Fed Rate & MASSIVE quantitative easing,” the president tweeted Monday. “NOW, best jobs numbers ever. Had to rebuild our military, which was totally depleted. Fed Rate UP, taxes and regulations WAY DOWN. If Dems won in 2016, the USA would be in big economic (Depression?) & military trouble right now.”
It’s about time we stop this BS.
Start calling all People Humans, No Color,No Race separation.
You can do the job set in front of you or you cant, Period.
You want to learn something then just do it.
You Learn and work for you own progress in Sccusses in this World.
The BS that we need to stop is the constant indulgence of the slave-victimhood mentality of modern black Americans. The facts are thus:
* No black person alive today was a slave when it was still legal in America
* No white person alive today was a slave-owner when it was still legal in America
* Slavery is not the exclusive woe of black Americans–more people are enslaved today, around the world, than at any time in the past
It’s about time we stand up to these people, who are perpetually wallowing in a pool of self-pity, and tell them once and for all–GET OVER IT.
AND the main countries which STILL USE Slavery are in the mid east and Africa.. So if he whines about slavery tell him to CORRECT HIS OWN KIND.
OK… This is …ANOTHER…. Jackass I will …NEVER…. listen to again! Keeping in mind that the vast majority of people that work and pay taxes are white and that the largest percentage of taxtakers in that group are African American… I think it’s time we take a good look at just …WHO… is working the plantation
Nobody alive today was ever a slave from before the Civil War. They’re all dead. Mathematically it is possible there might be a few people alive who once met someone who used to be a slave, but I’ve never heard anyone say it.
When I was a kid I remember seeing a WWI veteran marching in a Memorial Day parade. He was in the Johnny Doughboy uniform. Consider that WWI was more than 50 years after the Civil War. If a slave was 30 years old in 1965 when he was freed, he would be 80 in 1915. That was a very long time to live back then, especially for poor people.
Odds are extremely low that anyone today would tell you they ever met a real slave from back before Lincoln ended slavery. If you do find this person, they are most likely in a nursing home today.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn said. “We were fully employed during slavery.
“WE”? Were you a slave?
“employed”
adjective
(of a person) having a paid job.
When “We” were slaves just how much did we get paid? $15.00 per hour??
It appears that lying, deceiving and Cons are a requirements to to be a Democrat Politician.
Scruffy, you are 100% right, this RACEBAITER Clyburn has never been a slave. So, like all liberals, Clyburn the RACEBAITER is a liar. Hey RACEBAITER Clyburn, go to bed with Al RACEBAITER Sharpton. Two peas in a pod.
Facts.. They care not about facts.
Those fully employed Jewish slaves left Egypt and became rich bankers, industrialists , Atomic scientists not to mention birthing the Christian Messiah. Just what have Clyburn’s Democrat family of economic Shock and awe Shaka Zulu clan done to Make America Great Again?
A guy who holds a majority whip should not be speaking on the subject of slavery, particularly from a party that has made economic debt slaves out of ALL Americans.
To all Dems:
The
Civil
War
Is
Over
!
Your side lost. Lincoln and the Republicans freed the slaves. Stop trying to whip up another Civil War.
There’s times i honestly think they want a re-do…
If Clyburn didn’t have a clever phrase and an insatiable need to race-bait, he’s be just another worthless pol.
I guess the people in power on the Left don’t acknowledge that today those who descended from slaves are PAID, and paid well, and have a President who will defend and provide opportunity, not just instill fear of ‘The Man” and exploit their own….
The day of the control of minorities by various ” Activists”, “Reverends”, and “Community Organizers” has ended. People are generally too smart today to be chronic, exploitable “victims”
For some people. Nothing will ever be enough. No amount of improvement will satisfy them as they find their living in continual complaining. While others are working their butt off trying to make life better. You always have these parasites still wanting to feed off the hate and discontent wagon.
At some point, you just have to ignore them. They will make you crazy if you let them.
WHICH IS WHY I say stop trying to apease them… WHY BOTHER, when nothing we do will ever be up to snuff.
Guess Clyburn is dumber than he looks. How does he equate slavery to employment? Employees are paid for their employment whereas slaves received no wages and were mistreated.
That’s one of those Dem comments that sounds cute on the surface – for a millisecond – but is really ignorant, stupid and totally anti-logic.
Hence why commucrats like Clyburn say it.. THEY CARE NOT about logic, and are always ignorant.
Only if one is capable of rational thought, and employs same.
So under slavery, the slaves were fully employed, the house slaves had it a bit better than the field slaves, and the Democrat slave owners had to pay the full cost in order to reap the benefits.
Under the current system, the goal is to keep the slaves unemployed, the house slaves (such as Clyburn) are paid very well to brainwash the field slaves into thinking life is good under massa (it is the abolitionists that make them suffer), the Democrat slave owners get to steal money from the non-slave owners to pay the cost but still reap the full benefits.
Back then, they were “forced” to work. Today, they have a choice to work and earn a living with dignity, or to lay around on the streets and live off the welfare system. Today, under this administration, there are more jobs available than there are workers willing to work at an honest job resulting in a quest for illegal workers to work at lower wages (under the table, of course) but don’t pay income taxes and overload our schools and hospitals. And what do they do with the money they get? They send in back to their home to pay for more of them to migrate here and live off of the system and drive down wages even more.
Consider, with all the bitching by these people, nothing will make them happy, but I would remind, if it weren’t for you being brought here for slavery, you would still be living in grass huts in Africa.
Don’t forget they’d be dodging tribal massacres, starvation and disease. Blacks are still slaughtering each other in the millions in Africa to this day. American blacks are the luckiest blacks on the planet.
If I were black, I would drop “African” from American as it is embarrassing how black Africans are behaving, not to mention they were the first step in the slave trade, selling fellow blacks captured from defeated tribes to Muslim/Arab slave traders waiting on the coast.
Remember how they piled on Cassius clay for saying the same thing.. IIRC they did the same to someone else (forget his name right now)..
The term “African American” is another label used by the left to divide and conquer, if you are a legal citizen of America, you are an American, regardless of your skin color.
Which president said “YOu are not african americans, or asian americans. YOU ARE JUST AMERICANS!” Or something to that effect?
I am amazed at how leftists can be so angry about things that don’t exist, don’t affect anyone, or are no longer real.
No surprise here, a politician tells us his political truism and expects everyone to believe it as though it were the only truth! He (and every other pol) wants us to accept him as an intelligent person but treats us as idiots!
So now black voluntary employment is the same as slavery? Apparently black Dems think blacks are owed 24/7 leisure on Welfare IN PERPETUITY provided by white taxpayers to make up for a finite period of slavery for their ancestors? White taxpayers are to be part-time slaves to blacks?
To commucrats lke him, THAT IS EXACTLY right..
To say that slavery is employment? Is to say employment is slavery.
Bitter souls, like James Clyburn, always have to twist and distort. Making sweet, bitter. And, making those bitter, even more bitter. He is a societal cancer. One of bitterness.
“We were fully employed during slavery. So it all depends how you measure this up.”
Would agree it all depends on how YOU measure this
It is enlightening to know YOU think employment is the equal of slavery
700,000 dead say it was not
So who do you think YOU represent with that view?
Looks like YOU trying to convince Blacks they were just as well off with slavery so you can keep them down and holding them back because you are more interested in having your well-paying JOB than those you are supposed to be representing having one too.
Well, they were the party of the KKK< Segregation and Jim Crowe laws.. SO OF COURSE they would like to go back to those days..
The biggest threat to Dems is the loss of the “victimhood” status of any group of people. So they cannot say anything positive when good things happen. It’s all about power and the loss of “their” own slaves.
clyburn is a embarrasment to the state of s.c. i should know i live here.
THEN why did you fools vote him in??
the dems created a district for him of mostly black folk thats why he was elected to a never ending position.
all of us are not fools!
Then how come no one sued it, for gerrymandering?
because the census gave the dems the power of re drawing the districts.
There is just no satisfying some people.
Jesus fed the poor, healed the sick, and taught love only to be condemned to death.
Trump has worked to lower unemployment, send the stock markets soaring, and cut taxes only to be impeached and hated.
Maybe Mr. Clyburn would agree with the newly-freed Hebrews who rebelled against Moses just outside of Egypt thousands of years ago; that slavery is to be preferred over freedom.
As slaves, they were not employed; they were enslaved.
Clyburn is an unteachable, intolerant, race-baiting leftist who as Reagan so succinctly put it, ‘knows so much that just isn’t so’. He has a vested interest in keeping race relations inflamed, so he says idiotic stuff like this. He and Mad Max Waters are 2 peas in a pod . . . doing what they can to make sure racism stays alive & well.
In my recollections, people who are employed, are paid for their work. So those slaves he refers to were not employed. Do we refer to prisoners in the jails as “employed”? Do we refer to children who do home chores as “employed”?
That congressman and any other Black people were never slaves, and none of the white people alive today owned slaves. That was outlawed in the civilized world over 150 years ago. Maybe the Democrats should go after the people who still own slaves in the Muslim world.
To some leftists, yes kids doing chores are employed.. I’ve heard some liberals even say PARENTS should be REQUIRED by law to pay their kids an allowance, EVEN IF THE KID DOES not a damn thing to deserve it..
capricorn1, you need to try to unseat this idiot!
“I’m saying that the African-American unemployment is not the lowest it’s ever been unless you count slavery,”
Sad and pathetic. They have nothing and they know it.
Should we presume that the Congressman would like to revert to the full employment of slavery? Is he interested in a redo of the War Between the States and, if so, is he prepared to face the consequences of a Union loss on this go-round? If he and his friends continue to destroy the history of this period in America, at what point is the war eradicated completely and with it,the Emancipation Proclamation. What happens then? Who picks the cotton then? Congressman Clyburn and his race-baiting associates are working mightily to overcome our efforts to erase color from the equation in the United States. They do not want Americans of color to have the opportunities that Donald Trump is providing to them. They prefer to preserve the sense of victimhood that keeps their constituents on their plantation and under their control and keeps them in power. As long as these people identify themselves as “African-Americans” rather than “Americans” and demand reparations and special benefits because of their color and blame their plight on “white privilege,” they will remain slaves to themselves and to their controlling leadership. What a tragedy! No matter what you have been told by the Democrats, you should know that Republicans, Conservatives, Trump supporters want only the best for you and delight in the fact that you are being recognized for your value as human beings and productive, patriotic Americans and that jobs are being made available for you.
Truly ignorant comment. The days are coming to an end for the race, poverty, and victim hustlers that have passed for so long as “leaders” of the “black community.” They got rich exploiting their own people and kept them on the Democrat plantation. The African Americans got nothing from them but complicity in destroying their families and keeping them dependent and impoverished.
So our man went all of the way back to when blacks, and some whites, were considered property to deny giving Trump due credit. 2009 my backside. You didn’t do anything but try to destroy the country. Clyburn you’re dirty. You’re dirty here at home and in Washington. Can’t wait to see you leave office. On your own poser or in a box. It doesn’t matter. As long as you are gone.