Clyburn: Opposing the stimulus is racist or something
posted at 7:06 pm on February 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Ah, here’s that honest, non-cowardly discussion of race we’ve been looking for.
Clyburn also had some strong comments for Gov. Mark Sanford on why he thinks he opposed the stimulus.
“The governor of Louisiana expressed opposition. Has the highest African-American population in the country. Governor of Mississippi expressed opposition. The governor of Texas, and the governor of South Carolina. These four governor’s represent states that are in the black belt. I was insulted by that,” Clyburn said. “All of this was a slap in the face of African-Americans. It had nothing to do with Governor Sanford.”…
A spokesman from the governor’s office says, “Representative Clyburn is no stranger to playing the race card, because he has no defense for the runaway spending and the deficits contained in this so-called stimulus bil that will hurt our economy. Spending money at the federal level that we do not have represents a future tax increase on all South Carolinians, regardless of their color – and in the process of doing so, he’s ripping off everyone he claims to represent.”
You’ll remember Clyburn as the guy who blamed racial tensions between Obama and Hillary during the South Carolina primary on … Mike Huckabee. Needless to say, his charge is patently false: If there’s any demographic Bobby Jindal’s obviously out to get, it’s those damned pesky Cajuns. Exit question one: What are the odds that fiscally conservative Republicans would oppose a trillion-dollar spending bill? Truly, only racism can explain their shocking stance. Exit question two: Is Clyburn suggesting that Palin’s off the hook since there are no black people in Alaska? Exit question three: Does this mean the beta-male minority in New York can accuse David Paterson of trying to harm them personally with his policy stances? Exit answer: Yes.
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Only if we win. If we lose, they get all the mics.
JiangxiDad on February 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM
What Clyburn is actually saying is the Stimulus only benefits African Americans. The stimulus, mind you, that he voted for. You just can’t get more racist than that. If Clyburn refuses to represent ALL people, throw the bum out!!
TN Mom on February 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM
I recall hearing someone call for “an honest conversation about race in America.” Maybe when we’re finished with the DIShonest one…
manwithblackhat on February 19, 2009 at 8:46 PM
In my lifetime, there is one sterling example of wholesale “liberation” of slaves in toto…the former Belgian Congo, a huge part of Central Subsaharan Africa “owned” outright by King Leopold of Belgium. When Belgium decided to divest itself of the Belgian Congo [to be renamed Zaire by Mubuto Sese Seko] the Belgians merely all went home, leaving the entire country to the locals. Turned out pretty darn well, right?
The importation of slaves into the Colonies eneded in the late 18th Century. The continuation of slavery until 1865 was deemed an economic necessity by the South, and many in the North, as well. Simply put, no matter how one tries to revise history, a wholesale sudden emancipation would have caused terrible economic and social strains on a very internally weak United States had it been compelled by law between 1776 and 1860. Unfortunate, sad, but true. Had we followed the Belgian model, we’d be a lot worse off today than we are.
The continuing meme that somehow all non-Blacks in this nation “owe” all Blacks in this Nation compensation is a false premise. The vast majority of Americans, and thus their progeny, came to this country well after slavery had been abolished.
I concur completely with the reason and intellect of Dr. Thomas Sowell, and others, who are willing to look honestly at that “peculiar institution” instead of trying to extort from the many to somehow make up for the proclivities of the few.
coldwarrior on February 19, 2009 at 8:49 PM
You do realize that Cajun is a pejorative term, right? As a member of the Acadian-American community I find it outrageous that this site would so carelessly post racial epithets in a joking manner, as if their is something funny about it.
Have you no shame, sir? No conscience, sir?
/end sarcasm.
darclon on February 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM
We got those in Congress again? Cool….
+ 1
Hog Wild on February 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Thanks INC. I wish Sowell had more spotlight. He is brillant.
We should quote him every chance we get over the next 4 years.
katy on February 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM
This Clyburn guy is almost as bad as Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. This is the guy who made national news by calling out another commissioner as racist because the man had the audacity to utter the words ‘black hole’.
Anyway, if you want a great laugh check out the message that John Wiley Price has for you about race. Note: this is a real video and links directly to his website.
carbon_footprint on February 19, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Aggie95 on February 19, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Yes there is still slavery practiced today throughout Africa and Asia. The biggest practioners were Arab Muslims that ran the African slave trade, many millions more slaves perished in Arabia than were ever sent to the west.
That said the Civil War was not over slavery, it was about state’s rights, ie federalism as is written in the Constitution. Yes Lincoln freed the slaves after the war started but only in the Confederacy and not in the several Union states until after the war was over. I am not one of those that thinks of Lincoln as a great man, he did more to destroy the Constitution than any other president in our history. Its actually kind of funny that Obama likens himself to Lincoln since ole Honest Abe was a blatant and outspoken racist that saw blacks as inferior. I’ll go find the essay Mark Alexander wrote for the Patriot Post about Lincoln.
goat on February 19, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Sowell has wisdom and clarity. We are blessed to have him.
INC on February 19, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Oh, just because he can’t see it…
Tzetzes on February 19, 2009 at 9:01 PM
So, Big Brother is now a voyeur?
coldwarrior on February 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM
The essay I refer to above can be found here. Here is a sample in Lincolns own words.
goat on February 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Lincoln freed the slaves, but as more of an afterthought than an act of altruism. He once said that if he could save the Union without freeing the slaves, he would do it; if he could save the Union by freeing the slaves, he would do that; and if he could save the Union by freeing some slaves, and not others, he would do that, too. Certain Union generals issued “emancipation proclamations” earlier in the war; Lincoln retracted these orders, and punished the generals involved. I do think he was a great man, but not necessarily because of his actions as President.
uncivilized on February 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM
It makes me wonder if Obama really knows anything about Lincoln because if Lincoln had his way Obama would not be able to hold office.
goat on February 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Apparently voting for a black guy to be POTUS is still not proof enough to have yourself moved from the suspected bigot column to the not a bigot column.
So can we just skip the pre-sell tactics and go straight to the bottom line….how much is a frank discusion on race going to cost the rest of us?
moxie_neanderthal on February 19, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I was under the impression that Beta Males were in the majority in New York.
daryl_herbert on February 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM
As far as Liberals are concerned, Dean has cover because it has a relatively large gay population and Ben and Jerry’s.
BuckeyeSam on February 19, 2009 at 9:16 PM
and they have several diff. flavors of chocolate.
JiangxiDad on February 19, 2009 at 9:19 PM
No. The majority are gay.
JiangxiDad on February 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I don’t know what South you live in, but the one in which I live has a Black Belt because of the black population in it. The soil is mostly clay and sand, so you must live in some other South where fantasies grow. There is a lively conversation about the Black Belt and the need to reach out with technology and education initiatives, especially for those who live in remote, rural areas.
College Prof on February 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
This is an excellent point.
When I here accusations of racism from idiots such as Clyburn, I immediately tune out. I’m more than willing to lend my outrage to protest true racism, but this ain’t it. And just because I’m a cracker doesn’t preclude me from making that assessment for myself.
Anymore, fools such as Clyburn, Holder, Obama, and other like-minded shining wits (spoonerism) strike my as nothing more than little boys (or girls, as the case may be) who have cried wolf once too often.
BuckeyeSam on February 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM
You’re on the look-out for white racism, but here is black racism right in front of your face. Did you see it?
JiangxiDad on February 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM
It extends across southern Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and into Louisianna. I am from just south of B’ham and the soil is deep and rich. I don’t know what south you live in but I doubt its been for very long if thats what you think you know. I spent 3/4 of my life there and I never heard black belt used in racial terms, it was always about the band of very fertile soil stretching across those states.
goat on February 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Oh and I lived there during the Wallace, Bull Conner era.
goat on February 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM
You are both correct.
carbon_footprint on February 19, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Suggestion,
Since black Americans so clearly loathe Conservatives I suggest they all move to Democrat dominated states where they will, in their opinions, receive better treatment.
Good riddance.
p.s. I lived in SC for 5 years.
DerKrieger on February 19, 2009 at 9:39 PM
That wouldn’t work out. Within a year those states would be totally bankrupt and we would have to pay even more. Of course we would still be racists.
Nuts4koi on February 19, 2009 at 9:49 PM
I wonder what Mr. Michael Steele thinks of all this……….?
Seven Percent Solution on February 19, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Hey Genius! Ever live in a city that has been under democrat control for 50 years? Oh, I know almost all cities in the USA are under democrat control. I was just wondering why the blacks in those cities aren’t liberated after 50 years of democrat rule. What’s that? Democrats rule with the soft bigotry of low expectations? Want to keep blacks in perpetual poverty? VOTE DEMOCRAT.
daesleeper on February 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Boy that hit the nail on the head. Many predicted the Obama era might push the issue of the race industry out into the light.
At some point with a sitting Black President will there have to be an admission of what this all about.
Conan on February 19, 2009 at 10:24 PM
This is all a red herring. The Eric Holder “coward” speech, the Al Sharpton NY Post cartoon issue, and now this. All designed to keep us from continuing discussion on the stimulus because opposition to it is growing.
So now we’re all buzzing about race and the stimulus is off the table.
mph on February 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Not too long ago, Clyburn was scorching Republicans for deficit spending (”everything they touch turns into deficits”).
Oh, and he also demanded in May 2007 that ALL troops be withdrawn from Iraq in 90 days… he’s now “comfortable” with BHO’s 16-month “promise” which has stretched out to 18, then to 24 months.
mankai on February 19, 2009 at 10:34 PM
That should have been McCain/Palin’s ONLY commercial for the last two weeks.
SlimyBill on February 19, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Let them keep it up. Give ‘em enough rope…
ddrintn on February 19, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Sanford response:
A spokesman from the governor’s office says, “Representative Clyburn is no stranger to playing the race card, because he has no defense for the runaway spending and the deficits contained in this so-called stimulus bil that will hurt our economy. Spending money at the federal level that we do not have represents a future tax increase on all South Carolinians, regardless of their color – and in the process of doing so, he’s ripping off everyone he claims to represent.”
SouthernGent on February 19, 2009 at 11:43 PM
I’ve always known it as the “Cotton Belt” due to the dark soil. HOwever, wikipedia’s entry appears to back both of us up.
SouthernGent on February 19, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Clyburn misspoke when he called those states the
“black belt”. What he meant to call them was the “chocolate belt”.
OxyCon on February 20, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Dissapointedly, he’s terribly dissapointed.
moxie_neanderthal on February 20, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Cowards!!!
RealDemocrat on February 20, 2009 at 12:26 AM
‘he’s now “comfortable” ‘
Long as he’s comfortable. That’s what’s important.
notropis on February 20, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Clyburn’s a Clymer!
sabbott on February 20, 2009 at 6:28 AM
Newsflash,
Michael Steele has issued a press release that he is disappointed in Clyburn’s statement. We must all work together in a bi-partisian spirit to cross the aisle to get work done for the American people said Steele and it is disappointing that these disappointing words of division along lines of race keep disappointing all of us! To this end, I end to to stop being disappointed by employing a new Hip Hop theme to attract disappointed non-republicans to the party including blacks, hispanics and one-arm disappointed midgets…
sabbott on February 20, 2009 at 6:32 AM
And this trend in NYC is the trend in the rest of the nation, overwhelmingly the vast majority of murders are committed by minorities and the rest of the crime stats are not much better. But they continue to insist we are racist for not interacting
Before Holder and his attorneys revive that practice, they should study certain facts that remain taboo in the mainstream media. For instance, the homicide rate for black men between the ages of 18 and 24 is well over ten times that of whites. And disparities in other violent-crime rates are just as startling. In New York City, one of the nation’s safest large cities, 83 percent of all gun assailants were black during the first six months of 2008, according to victims and witnesses, though blacks make up only 24 percent of the city’s population. Add Hispanic perps, and you account for 98 percent of all shootings in New York City. The face of violent crime in cities is almost exclusively black or brown. That explains why someone might feel a sense of trepidation when approached by a group of black youths. That’s not racism; it’s the reality of crime. And it’s that reality that determines whom the police stop, frisk, and arrest.
Aggie95 on February 20, 2009 at 8:09 AM
White America is about to find out that they’re not the most racist group in America.
Ernest on February 20, 2009 at 8:44 AM
LOL, yeah really. Those pesky Cajuns South of I-10, who voted him into office. Jindal your racist with your Indian Guilt!!!! *end of sarcasm*
TheHat on February 20, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Clyburn is a racist who hates South Asians.
It is as simple as that. Jindal refuses to play the victim card and isn’t on the reservation, thus he can be ridiculed by this bigot.
PimFortuynsGhost on February 20, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Clyburn has a chip on his shoulder the size of South Carolina..err…wait a minute…
All I can say is, thank goodness we have Jim DeMint and Mark Sanford — clear voices of reason with no racist entitlement agenda attatched…
LEBA on February 20, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Just another one who, when they cannot defend their position fall back to an old stand-by “racism”. Is it racist to expect a rep who writes tax law to pay their taxes? Is it racist to question a rep when they almost choke trying to hold back the word “socialism” during a committee meeting? Is it racist to ask why a rep uses his freezer as a petty cash safe? Is it racist to ask why a man is investigated by the Secret Service for a bumper sticker? Is it racist to ask why responsible people should pay for those who are not? Is it racist to ask elected officials to protect our borders? Is it racist to try and preserve the system of government that made us great for all these years?
NO!!!! Stupidity and arrogance comes in all colors.
hillbilly on February 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Clyburn, the word you are looking for is reparations
Vashta.Nerada on February 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM
You’d get more mileage out of taxing the race card each time it’s played.
Christien on February 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Good Lord… and we wonder why we have a Nation of losers and welfare and victims and babies momma’s… geez!
Mark Garnett on February 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I saw these quotes in High School in 1977. After the war, Lincoln also set aside $500,000 (a Lordly sum in those day’s where $20.00 was a nearly an ounce of Gold) to pay ship passage to ship Blacks back to Africa. Then he was assassinated.
GunRunner on February 20, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Clyburn put the State legislatures could vote to overide the gop govs. for the money in the stimulus.
Checkmate.
getalife on February 20, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Play that race card buddy, ’cause your back’s against the wall, and you’re desperate. It was the only way he could make the Gov. look bad for not accepting the stimulus, yet the Gov’s refusal was based on principle.
RMCS_USN on February 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I’m still floored that Jesse Jackson wasn’t appointed Sec of State.
workingforpigs on February 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM
That’s right, a typical left wing statement without truth or merit. If you can’t get your political adversaries to see things your way, they are not thoughtful people with different points of view, they are racists instead. Straight out of Nazism, Fascism and the Communist Manifesto.
DL13 on February 20, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Where’s Adam Clayton Powell II when we need him?
Fuquay Steve on February 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Let’s cut to the chase and just concede that anyone who isn’t a black Democrat, is racist.
Because that’s the whole point of this idiotic discussion Eric Holder wants us to have.
To elevate black Democrats above everyone else and to give them a “get out of jail free” card when they lie, cheat and steal.
NoDonkey on February 20, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Clyburn has strong ties to the NAACP which is a major contributor to getting him elected time after time. It may be time for him to go, actually past time for him to go. He was a major player in getting the confederate flag moved from the capital building and backed the boycott of blacks vacationing in south carolina until they got what they wanted. He intentionally attempted to hurt the economy of the state to promote his black policies. send him all the hate email you wish, he deserves all of it.
workingforpigs on February 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM
The seeds of racist division are being sewn in the Housing bill proposed by Obama. Look at how the bill is being portrayed to Hispanics. Whites don’t have to be told that opposing the bill is racist when Hispanics and other minorities are told that it is. Even though mainstream America may realize how ridiculous the idea is, Hispanic communities will adopt that position and become reliable Democrat voters.
JohnJ on February 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
The race card is pretty much all Clyburn has. He is a buffoon who has no place in Congress at all. His seat was gerrymandered after the 1990 in a deal between the SC GOP and black Democrats in the legislature to create a “safe minority” seat (while simultaneously making 4 GOP seats safer, too). That left the state’s delegation split 4-2, but the GOP was confident that moderate Democrat John Spratt would leave Congress in a term or two, leaving his mostly conservative district for the picking (big mistake; he’s still there).
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The district follows I-95, picking up black-majority communities from Dillon near the NC border all the way down to Georgia. No way Clyburn can ever lose, even if he gets caught on tape taking a bribe like William Jefferson.
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So we in the Palmetto state have become used to his ignorant statements, and no one takes him too seriously. He lives only to deliver federal pork to his district and good jobs for his family members and friends. His personal net worth has also climbed considerably – remarkably so given the congressional salary.
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He’s really not worth getting upset over. Stupid people say stupid things, and Clyburn’s as dumb as any in DC except perhaps Patty Murray.
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Adjoran on February 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Adjoran on February 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM
If you want dumb, Marcy Kaptur (D/UAW-OH) will give Clyburn and Murray a run for your money.
PimFortuynsGhost on February 20, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Let them keep it up. Give ‘em enough rope…
ddrintn on February 19, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Raaaacccciiiiiissssttt. You said rope.
sarc/
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on February 20, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Mixed Media
Jeff Bercovici
Feb 20 2009 11:47AM EST
Huffpo Red in the Face Over Fox News Hoax
Again, leave it to the KKK Democrat socialist rainbow coalition to barrage the world with racial antics, while of course pointing the false finger of blame at Conservatives.
Thanks to Drudge for the good LOL headline.
maverick muse on February 20, 2009 at 5:06 PM
…I wasn’t paying too much attention during the whole debate over this so-called stimulus package. Was it being sold as a “black bailout” or something? Does this…a’hem…legislator somehow think that the federal government should naturally spend itself into penury to benefit his racial constituency?
…more to the point, what do you call someone who anchors all his logic in race? Raaaaaaaaaacist, perhaps?
…for all those of you who’ve bought that week-old halibut about “black people can’t be racist”, take a long, hard look at this guy. He fits the bill….
Puritan1648 on February 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Rage and revenge. Jeremiah Wright lived a fat and happy life feeding his congregation a steady diet of rage and revenge. Barack Obama IS Jeremiah Wright and his ENTIRE administration is obsessed with nothing but rage and revenge. It is palpable.
Pole-Cat on February 20, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Alright I had a bit of a brat attack but I really can’t stay away from Hot Air…12 step program anyone?
So Clyburn…yeah buddy…I’m not with you on this one. Just replace “black people” with “working class” or “poor” or “recently unemployed” people and not only do you avoid stupid race baiting…but you’re actually right. More than just black people will benefit from this. Stupid.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 20, 2009 at 9:29 PM
This clown of a congressman would best serve his state, by worrying about his state. BTW clownster, like it or not, the people of the United States gave every right to question, and/or oppose anything that’s passed as law in Washington.
One other thing idiot, get rid of the hyphenation BS. Because, I can’t seem to find it anywhere in the U.S. Constitution that you swore to uphold.
byteshredder on February 21, 2009 at 12:19 AM
B Hussein O & Co are stoking the dying embers of racism and trying to reignite it.
OmahaConservative on February 21, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Thats because Clyburn wants the money to go to the blacks.
Rick007 on February 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM
We need another Tea Part to bring back States Rights over the federal Govt.
Isn’t it ironic? Pelosi and Reid control the future of all 50 states but we can’t fire them?
Rick007 on February 21, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Someone should ask Clyburn if opposition to the Stimulus Bill was so racist, then why didn’t he stay and vote for it.
The story is that, though he is the Whip, he actually left the floor (to attend his daughter’s wedding) and never voted for the final package when it passed the House.
Trochilus on February 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM
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