WASHINGTON (CNN) – Democratic Rep. James Clyburn on Friday defended his remark that opponents of the stimulus bill are insulting African-Americans.
The House Majority Whip argued that many of the federal funds are specifically targeted towards low-income minority communities. He also accused GOP governors who have resisted the stimulus of hypocrisy.
“Let’s take, for instance, Louisiana,” the South Carolina Democrat told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. “Gov. [Bobby] Jindal has been in my office a number of times. He has called me a number of times asking for billions of dollars in assistance to stand communities back up as a result of hurricane Katrina and Rita.”
“Yet he says there is something wrong with this money for the stimulus that comes from the same pot, that he sees nothing wrong when he’s trying to stand back up after Katrina,” he said.
Asked about opposition from South Carolina’s governor Mark Sanford, Clyburn said that in his home state, a chunk of the stimulus funds would be directed to the poorest counties along the I-95 corridor, a poverty-stricken region of the state most famous for its dilapidated schools.
He said it would be an affront to black South Carolinians in those counties if Sanford turns down the money.
“That’s why I called this an insult,” Clyburn said. “That’s why I said it's slap in the face. Because a majority of the people in these counties are African-Americans.”
Clyburn did not say that Republicans who oppose the funds are racists.
“I have never used that word in my life and I won’t use it now,” he said.
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Why do the demmie dummies keep playing the race card?
When you point a finger and scream racism, just remember three are pointing back at the cause. Congressman.
Clyburn has valid points. These various GOP governors who are showing opposition to the use of stimulus funds are the potential crop of primary contestants for the 2012 election. I respect their concerns that the stimulus will not be popular with their base voters, but as governors – their responsibilities extend to those constituents that also don't vote for them. It is therefore irresponsible on the part of these GOP governors to reject funds that could have an immediate impact on the lives of their citizens. The example alluded to in this thread about Jindal's possible rejection stimulus aid is also very clearly some blatant hypocrisy.
Why are we focusing on this crap? All of a sudden everyone is insulted and offended with one thing or another.....it's starting to be very old. Let's move on to more important issues.
Rep Clyburn should inform the four govenors of those southern states that if they decide not to accept funds from the stimulous plan for their state, they need to "Take Note the Next Time the People Vote". This is no time to be playing political games with those of us who are hurting.
Sandy
This guy needs to get a life.
Drama King!
The only tax cut philosophy is bankrupting this great nation. All those governors are running huge deficits now.
In the past eight years with republicans, there were only two things that mattered: Iraq and tax cut.
We have now a president who put American first before ideology.
I admire Clyburn, he has the courage to address the issues. It is amazing how these governors from these poor states can grand stand and the media gives them a stage.
Citizens of these states should be marching in the streets
ALL OF THESE GOVERNORS SHOULD BE HISTORY!!!!!!!!
To designate money per race is about as openly racist as possible. Since South Carolina has had that Lottery participation, there schools were supposed to get profits put into new schools. The only schools that receive money is not the ones in the worst condition, but the magnet schools, etc. SC people should pay for their schools, not the rest of the US. Quit taxing so much.
And, this is supposed to be a STIMULUS! Not a government handout to "spread the wealth around."
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY?
annie – Palin 2012 – you are an example of a "dummie". I love your denial of racism. So typical of a Palin supporter. You make me sick.
Let me just say this....Rep. Clyburn is the racist here. This is the second time he has injected race into the public forum. Perhaps he was asleep during the last election. He needs to go. No one with this view should be in leadership of the Democratic party.
Why doesn't he look at the facts before he opens is mouth .He never has anything useful to say about anything. He is trying to widen the racial divide. His message is clearly the opposite of President Obama.
Get real. African Americans are not the only ones who will suffer if the money does not get dispersed properly by the states. Stop putting labels on everything.
We here you...you marched on Washington with Dr. King. Bravo. So did many others. Guess what....Millions of people from all races and all walks of life showed their courage and happily elected PResident Obama.
Get off your power trip. Your words are very damaging.
Time for you to go....take Pelosi with you. Now that is CHANGE!!!!!!!!!
Producers, UNITE!
Go all John Galt on the looters.
Leave the moochers and looters wondering why we no longer choose to work for free, only to be financially sodomized for our efforts.
SOME PEOPLE CAN'T HANDLE T THE TRUTH EVEN WHEN ITS SMACKING THEM IN THE FACE.THE RACE CARD WAS NEVER PLAYED, INSTEAD THE TRUTH TOLD. JINDAL: I NEED A BILLION, BUT DON'T TELL ANYBODY.
So using your logic, proponents of the stimulus bill are insulting White-Americans.
He's not "playing the race card." He makes a statistically correct point. The people most likely to receive aid from the stimulus money in the 4 Deep South states that are pondering declining the stimulus money are the poor. Because of several centuries of horrendous racial inequity in the South, the poorest are typically black. He pointed this out. Anyone who says he's playing the race card is actually playing the race card. They're just trying to whip up pent-up white anger against blacks the same way they claim the basis of the mortgage crisis is because black people bought homes they couldn't afford. Conservatives are nasty, nasty citizens. They can have the Deep South.
First it was Attorney General Holder. Now it's Clyburn. Don't they know that as long as they keep these racist remarks before the public, the longer it will take for the races to come together? Here we are in the midst of a great beginning with President Barack Obama, and instead of these two building on this momentum, they come out and stoke the fires' embers. Please, you two, get on a positive track and let's see how we, black and white, can better work together for the good of all Americans.
More proof that Clyburn's career has capitalized on sowing the seeds of division, and yes even hatred in between white and black America
OF COURSE we know that the so-called "stimulus" package is geared towards African Americans. Come on, get a clue, folks! Oh-oh, Holder will now call me a "racist." Too bad! It is what it is!
What a bigoted raciest pig James Clyburn is by these statements! I'm sick and tired of blacks thinking they can be raciest and no one should object.
LOL – Holder calls people cowards fo not discussing race, but discussing a stimulus bill and opposing it, makes you a racist or insulting to black people?
What a joke...
Barf, until you can actually comprehend what you read you might not want to make comments that make you look ignorant, nowhere did "annie" deny racism, she questioned the playing of the race card.
Considering that most of the people criticizing Obama and his plan are career politicians in both parties and that the conservatives are really against him and his policies after only 30 days – Obama is doing something right. It's about time that lobbyists for both sides and politicians for both sides find out that it's not the same as always – they can whine and threaten all they want but this time no one is going to listen. It's what's best for the country and the average citizen, not people who make a living off the misery of others.
Is the stimulus package the greatest? No. But it's better than anything else that has been offered and has to be done, especially considering the "non-spend" Republicans are the ones who put us in the biggest debt in history by... oh, wait... spending – but on their rich friends and an illegal war.
You know, if the Governors of the States with the highest populations of African Americans think that considering refusing to take Stimulus money for their states isn't an insult to black folks, they are delusional.
I'm an African American woman who happens to have a decent job (right now) and will likely not see any of the stimulus money myself but I know scores of people who are in need of help and should get it.
I live in the south and for anyone of those Governors to turn down a dime (where ever it comes from) would be a discrace and YES the people who would be harmed the most happen to be BLACK.
Thank you Congressman Clyburn for calling them out.
The only slab in the face is the one Mr Clyburn should get. why is it that everything is about race? there are plenty of poor white people also. the point is, Sure some poor may benefit from this package now but everyone is going to have to pay it back sometime.
It is fascinating to sit and watch the American political machine of corruption and greed take turns. For the first time in our life time you have a president who actually comes from the people and cares about the people. The whole world can see that except a lot of the people in US. Who by the way were the same people who turned blind, deaf and dumb when Bush Jr. was looting the vault and giving money to his rich friends (ENRON, Haliburton, Black Water….) and here we are all of a sudden the republicans are fiscally conservative and care about the people. How do these people keep getting re-elected??? Michele Bachman of Minnesota (insane), Lindsay Graham of South Caroline (hypocrite), or John Boener (idiot). Where do the GOP find characters like that and how do these clowns keep getting re-elected?
Lindsay Graham must be in a pretty republican state since he has been around since the Bill Clinton impeachment era. I remember him riding his high and mighty horse of “we are in search of the truth and the people deserve to know the truth” yeah right! The truth was that he (Bill) had sex with an intern. Not good but not against the law. Is he going to even bring up that kind of questions about the Bush/Cheney crimes, which were real crimes that has gotten people killed? NO! because the republicans are party first and people second representatives.
American politics……..it is sad and amusing all at the same time.
Gabe Polson, in an above post is right in saying that what Clyburn said is in direct contradiction to what Obama says about the poor of this country. It seems to me that Obama was stating quite often during his campaign that the poorest in this country, those on welfare, are not made up of a majority of minorities. So, which is it guys? Are the majority of the poor minorities or not? If you listen to Clyburn the stimulus package sounds a lot like it was directed just at poor minorities and no one else. Sounds a lot like what Michelle Obama wanted in her thesis, where minorities who get ahead owe it to other minorities to give back to them. Why can't it just be that all people help all other people out, irregardless of race. Everyone should be giving back in the measure that they are able. If everyone actually did that, there wouldn't be so much poverty.
People I talk to are so sick of the race card being played over every issue.
Where is Al Sherpton while this guy is carrying on about black folk. He better not let ol Al know he thinks black folk are only in it for the free-bees. That would.......OMG........prove what everyone already knows. OOOPS MY BAD!!!!!!
May I ask CNN and BBC to stop talking about how bad the economic downtourn is. I feel all your doing is talking people into it and it's not going to get better.
Talk some positive things in life and watch the difference in markets and business.
Thank you
Andrew Stocks
I didn't realize that funds were only being withheld from African Americans... oh, wait. It isn't.
And to insinuate that Jindal is being racist is... well, ignorant. Indians/Middle Eastern Americans are by far the biggest victims of racism in this country. Look at the hate crime statistics.
Clyburn needs to realize that when he spews ignorant comments like this, he invalidates everything else that comes out of his mouth.
What do the governors of LA and SC hope to gain by saying they oppose receiving stimulus money for their states?
Maybe they hope to become president and vice-president of the US, because if they refuse stimulus money and their states suffer for it, you can be sure that they will be looking for new jobs.
Never fails.
The corrupt MSM is good at it too.
Barf, you make me sick
Don't worry, Clyburn.
By the time Obama's done with us, we'll all be in the "black belt" by then.
We're all ghetto now...
Clyburn a true man of character.
I agree wih Clyburn that the Republican governors need to make up their minds. But as for this being racially motivated, that's just crazy. He needs to learn how to get his point across without using race.
And before the idiots cry out that the governors should not be able to get the money, that would hurt the poor minorities in their states also. So I guess you are slapping African-Americans too.
So denying funding is a slap in the face to Blacks but not Whites or any other ethnic group? Did I miss something? Is this bill only for the benifit of Blacks? Since that is not the case then Clyburn is just another Black Racist this week trying to get some attention.
I believe he's right. Why not take the money their people paid taxes too. I don't understand the GOP it seem to me that they want this government to fail. What was the election battle cry Country First why don't they live up to it.
@annie-palin 2012
name calling that's great I see palin has not left t he building
Thank you Clyburn for calling out these so call governors, it is absolutely ridiculous for them to turn down money when it is so desperately needed in their states. HOPEFULLY THE VOTERS WILL REMEMBER THESE IDIOTS AT THE NEXT ELECTION!
Clyburn is the racist in this conversation. I don't understand how the democrats can continue to play the race card over and over and then act innocent. With Obama as President, they are clinging to anything they can, becase most Americans are not racist. African Americans who want to achieve more ... can ... they just have to work hard. Period. Get over it ... there are no more excuses.
Somethings never change....
They were all on Welfare and now they call it Stimulus
Tell Barry to stop paying for abortions for Mexican prostitutes and give THAT money to the brothas and sistas
He won't use that word, but it is there. The only time the GOP raises the government spending issue is when it is going to those who are not well off.
Yet again it's alot of people not knowing what they are talking about. Gov. Jindal isn't being hypocritical, he has been openly critical of the provisions and stipulations of accepting the stimulus money. Try reading the stimulus bill. There are many provisions requiring states to come up with matching funds. That is what Jindal is objecting too. He is correct when he says his state would be better off trying to hold tight and get through these times than to accept the money and spend many more years in even worse shape than they are now trying to pay off the states share of the burden.
Only Africian Americans are hurting? What about white people, spanish people, all Americans. Everyone is hurting.
I for one am tired of this race thing. They keep up with race and they will be out of office next time around. Ever since Obama was running and then elected, it seems everything is about race. Lets stop this with black and white, Democrat and Republicans. I thought we were all Americans. We have to stand together to get through the hard times ahead.
I still think Clyburn's comment is way out of line, and casts a negative light on the purpose of the stimulus bill; hence offering opponents of the package fuel for their criticism.
No one is promised anything in this package, or promised it will work.
It is simply designed to create some opportunities (albeit temporary}to get people working and active again...earning and spending the way we should be.
I wonder if the good Congressman even read the bill.
White people....if you want to stop being accused of being racist, stop using the phrase "race card." Prejudice is not a game and is not analogous to a game. You want us to get over race yet you support the NY Post cartoon. The easiest way to end Black thought on racism is to stop being racist. When we don't have to see that mess in the paper, deal with prejudice from banks, HR departments, policemen, co-workers and the media then their will be no "cards." to play.
I live in Texas an have called my state Representative and told them
I do not want them to expand government programs with Federal
funds (there are strings attached ). These programs will NEVER go away, so I as a tax payer will have my taxes raised to support them for now until the end of TIME.
I m tried of the Federal government mandating programs to the states
that are NOT FUNDED. Before you jump on the band wagon and make statements you have NO CLUE about get informed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do not want the state of Texas to become another bankrupt state
like California.
Clyburn is a racists, he uses the color of his skin to make statements
about people he does not even know. Sir you make me sick.
Oh yes Clyburn, you are absolutely right, we that object to the wasteful spending that we see happening in congress are simply objecting to slap you in the face. That's right, it has nothing to do with the fact that we believe that our nation and it's government should manage its debt and not move down a path that will result in a huge unmanageable deficit, a nationalized banking system and the basis of a socialist welfare state.
Clyburn, you are full of crap and it is you and your actions that are a slap in the face of African Americans and all Americans.
Nothing more to say but: THIS GUY IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER MORON!!
It has NOTHING to do with skin color you fool. It's about reckless and runaway spending.
In my house we don't spend more money than we make. SIMPLE ECONOMICS. If our politicians could ever grasp that concept it would be a miracle.
What does it take to get a reply posted CNN? I agree with Rep. Clyburn. Of course these govs take money for the very things the stimulus aid will be going for. I had a problem with the bail out Bush gave the financial sector. There was no accountability that went with it and they used it shamelessly for lavish retreats and Billions in bonus pay. Bonus for what? total failure on their part? The only reason the Republicans don't like the stimulus aid is that it is going for America–all of us–and not just the top 1%. Enjoy your warm, lake front homes in eternity Repubs.
In other words, this guy thinks it's somehow "offensive" if everyone isn't perfectly willing to empty their wallets and give the contents to the blacks. He's apparently trying to prove that blacks are basically parasites.
I don't know if anybody out there knows this or not. But, the UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR BLACK AMERICANS IS ALMOST 13%. U never hear that figure, and I wondrer why. That figure is really disturbing to me. So, I think I know where Congressman Clyburn is coming from with his comments. Seems like Repubs want to punish the Black Community with more unemployment to me. For the record, IM WHITE.
As a young American (who happens to be black and was born in America, not Africa then naturalized American) I am becoming very fearful for my country. And feel that if you do not want to be stereotyped or "profiled" then you should not fit the stereotype or profile.
I suspected during the primaries and election, but as time goes on it becomes more evident. Obama either has a piece of the spear of destiny, or he is the antichrist.
How else can it be explained that so many, otherwise intelligent, people turned into blind, non-thinking, non-listening, sheeple that practically worship the ground he walks on?
So now the stimulus package is a racial give away package?
The GOP governors are considering not taking the money, because this is a social spending bill, not a stimulus package. It's a GIVE AWAY. He has let the cat out of the bag, the Dems focused the money to go to blacks. That is what I hear him saying.
I don't get any tax refund, I don't get any mortgage relief, and I don't get anything from the stimulus bill. Oh wait, yes I do get something. SCREWED.
1 TRILLION dollars added to our national debt in 30 days. And now if you oppose this fiscal irresponsibility, you're a racist. Seems like just yesterday the Dems were complaining about how Bush ran up the debt. Today it seems to be OK. Hypocrites.
This country is heading in a bad way.
They are trying to put on a show /they better go back and look at the show Bush/Cheney put on for 8 long years and the OMG mess they got this Country in but they never consider all the problems people are having since they have their nests feathered. and as usual with Republicans don't give a good – - – – - – - – -.
no one cares about what some indian thinks
when politicians take opportunites such as this to inject race into the discussion, they only help widen the divide that already separates americans. to say that only low income minorities would be disadvantaged by a governor possibly refusing money from the federal government, is polarizing. there are as many low income white families that would be affected by such a decision.
do some of these governors have alterior motives for possibly making the choices they are indicating? sure, this is politics after all.
progress in this country will only trully be achieved when we no longer have politicians who want to divide us by appealing to our lesser sensibilities. until we recognize that whatever happens, we are all in the same boat together. the choices being made by our political leaders will not only affect the poor or the rich, but everyone of us. if the congressman trully wants to help move the dialogue forward, he needs to stop using this kind of language. it is not helpful and is just divisive.
Two points: (1) Does Mr. Congressman believe all Blacks are on the government dole so refusing the bailout hurts them disproportionately? Why is that not offensive? (2) Why does it seem that it's never an option for government to make SPENDING CUTS as a first way to address deficits v. getting a bailout? What's going to happen when this installment runs out? One every year? In my house, if we can't afford it, we don't buy it. Unlike government, we don't spend first (i.e., buy votes) and look for the money 2nd. It's mind-numbing.
"Racists", "Cowards", "Bitter Clingers", "Ashamed of America" Abe would be so proud of this White House. Its time to build a bridge (with the spendulous bill) and GET OVER IT!
To all the posters bickering back and forth about playing the "race card":
OK, let's forget/move away from this and look at something for a moment.
By appearances only, it seems that there are several Governors that do not care if the “backbones” of their respective states swim or drown. The backbones are the people (the average American) that clean the streets, picks up the garbage, drives the buses/trucks, and constructs the buildings, roads and bridges. People are losing houses, jobs, and a way of life and it appears that some Governors are having a Nero complex (playing the fiddle while Rome burns). There are still hard working people who cannot move into or rebuild houses in New Orleans (Katrina was in 2005). Many chemical plants in Louisiana are cutting back and laying off workers. But Governor Jindal says he will have to review the package to see if there are any “strings” attached. When will life start coming before political jargon and position?
Is Rep. James Clyburn wrong for his analogy? I can’t say because it is the way he feels at this time in history. Are some whites wrong for saying that blacks are becoming racist and playing the race card? I can’t say because it is the way they feel at this time in history. What I do know is that if we don’t come together on this economy and fix it, we will ALL fail. In other words, the bickering isn’t worth a hill of beans in the long run. Let’s stop the politics, the name calling, and the finger pointing and get this nation running again.
It's enough to say the region needs the funds and would benefit from it. It's enough to say it will generate jobs in a region hard hit by unemployment and the current economy. It's enough to say that about any region/project receiving funds. Race has no place in the discussion. By doing so, it says race was a factor in determining who gets desperately needed help. This is America's money and America should benefit from it regardless of the demographics of the area.
His statements do two things. It's leveraging race for support and to put pressure on the opponents. It's daring them to oppose the distribution and sets them up to be called "racists" if they do, even if there are more pressing issues that need to be addressed. It also says race was a factor when looking at who will benefit, and the decision wasn't based on "needs". I could care less who benefits if it fixes the economy, but the stimulus package needs to be distributed based on where it will be most effective in turning this mess around, not for political gain. Now's not the time for politics.
Representative Clyburn should keep quiet about Governor Sanford talking about refusing to accept the funds from the stimulus package. Sanford is laying the groundwork to run for the republican nomination for president. He was polishing his image with the right wing of the Republican Party by talking about not accepting the funds.
He cannot even get along with the republican legislature who has overridden his vetoes. There is no way he would have a viable future political career if he should refuse the money.
Clyburn put into the legislation a clause that if a governor did not accept it, the legislature could. Now Sanford can refuse it or parts of it and still be a hero to the ultra right. He can claim he was forced into it by the legislature.
Clyburn provided a way to let Sanford out of a position that he would not look good no matter which way he went into one where he can still look good and still polish his resume. Clyburn should have been able to see this.
As a citizen of South Carolina I most emphatically say, as a president, Sanford would make George Bush look like a super hero.
The Iraq war has cost us about $500 billion in 5 years. This doesn't take into account the tax dollars that were returned on payments to US companies and individuals that were paid from those funds, so the real amount is less.
The Democratic Congress has cost us about $800 Billion in 30 days. This doesn't include the interest that will accue for all the borrowing the government is going to need to pay for this, so the real amount is more.
Anyone who opposes this is a racist? I think not. I think anyone who opposes this can do the math, and can see what this package is really about, and he just proved it to most who can see thru the magic dust of the political lies.
I am opposed to this package. I'm not racist, and I'm not a Republican. I may not be a Democrat for long if the hate-mongering and disgusting behavior keeps happening.
Clayburn should be ashamed of himself. He is divisive, and very likely a racist himself. Why do Black leaders always use the race card. I would love to hear the conversation between him and a black American who opposes this bill. I guess he would be a Jim Crow.
For the uniformed - Clyburn's district is majority African-American in a state that has a large percentage of African Americans, so he's speaking the truth about how a rejection of the stimulus money by the SC governor would affect the majority of the people in his state.
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For the uninformed — Clyburn's district is majority African-American in a state that has a large percentage of African Americans, so he's speaking the truth about how a rejection of the stimulus money by the SC governor would affect the majority of the people in his state.
Clyburn doesn't speak for all blacks or minorities.
Mr. Clyburns remarks were a slap in the face and insult to ALL MINORITIES.
He acts as if we have one mind and cannot think independently.
Well Mr. Clyburn please wake up and join the real world, because millions of minorities disagree with the Stimulus plan. It is doing very little to help the poor and disadvantaged.
Unless of course you think $13.00 every two weeks is going to change any aspect of our lives.
Considering we are going to be paying for the 800 billions of money going mostly to the rich......it looks like we got a bad deal and it's only going to get worse.
"annie – Palin 2012 February 20th, 2009 5:35 pm ET
Why do the demmie dummies keep playing the race card?"
Because it works......I just say, lets change it for the "Stimulus Bill" to the "Reparation Bill".
To Jadie,
Why are we focusing on this crap? All of a sudden everyone is insulted and offended with one thing or another…..it's starting to be very old. Let's move on to more important issues.
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You know nothing about the character of Rep. Clyburn. If you did, you would be more respectful. He is a man who only speaks out when a situation has gotten grossly out of hand. There is nothing racist about him. He has worked with more white Republicans and Democrats than any Repub. has worked with black Democrats. Before you get on your high horse of denial, do a little reading. Racism is not "crap." It's an issue that has caused the lives of many. If you don't know, go and ask somebody.
To Jean, and other Dissidents,
What I said to Jadie applies to you as well. Why are you (Repub.) people so bitter? Racism is alive and well in this country. No one is pointing a finger at you. If you're offended, or think it's "getting old," I pause at your reasoning. Is it that you can't bear to hear the truth?
PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE...... Congressman Clyburn is RIGHT. This is NOT ABOUT THE RACE CARD FOLKS!!!! The South has a LONG and deep history of "segregated" mentality. Its funny that everyone blames Congressman Clyburn for his statement when in FACT Governor Sanford is depicting the same "slave master" tendencies by REFUSING BILLIONS IN STIMULUS DOLLARS to his constituents that need it the MOST!! So WHY would a Governor refuse money that will help the people of South Carolina from losing their homes and jobs? Because his refusal will NOT affect the RICH in the south, it will affect the POOR and the dis-advantage in South Carolina, and Congressman Clyburn knows who those families are. Bottom line.
Southern WHITE RED-NECK MEN in the south (yes, I said it) know exactly what the refusal of the stimulus money would do not only to African Americans, but also low-income WHITES, LATINOS, etc. in their state. Republicans are focused only on the RICH, RICH, RICH. Everyone else is just royally screwed by their own Republican leadership.
WHITES in the south still display a very strong "segregated" mentality and they often HIDE behind policies and agendas as an excuse to get away with being a racists/bigot undercover. This is NOTHING NEW, and Congressman Clyburn knows it.
SPIN IT ANYWAY YOU WANT..... The mere fact that Governor Sanford is REFUSING the money when his state is in dire need is nothing short of selfish and despicable. Governor Sanford is doing it for political postering, nothing else. He's taking the high political road and screwing his own constituents in the process.
Not sure that its racist but it is certainly political as hell on the Republicans part. They would rather let their constituents (of all races) suffer than to work with the Feds to determine the best way this money can help people. If it were going to their rich buddies, there would be no problem.
Quit playing the race card! Blacks are not victims unless they choose to be! They need to take responsibility for their lives and become victors! Read Bill Cosby if you want to digest some black wisdom!
Give it up Clyburn! You have over-played this card!
Remember – when you worship a false messiah you are participating in idolatry. And idolatry exacts a heavey penalty!
Give it up Clyburn! You have over-played this card!
Remember – when you worship a false messiah you are participating in idolatry. And idolatry exacts a heavy penalty!
everyone needs to read Atlas Shrugged (especially if you don't get J.P.'s comment).
What happens when all of us who did not buy houses we couldn't afford and are now being taxed out the nose finally get tired of not benefitting from any of the government handouts and only being punished for our productivity? I think we need a depression to trim the fat. Society and the economy is cyclical – people need to have some hard times to learn what hard work really is. Look at our grandparents who worked hard and lived in their means their whole life. Once people never experienced hardship the whole society went to the pot (see baby boomers and their kids).
Dems aren't playing the race card...they are just pointing out the things that are wrong. Before, we had many of republicans and this just went on and nobody had the courage to point it out. Republicans has become spoiled rotten and now it's time for some change. People always thinking about how much money they can make but what about investing in your own backyard. and also take a look in the mirror and really look at who you are and stop being spoiled. We all know what happens to that spoiled child or that spoiled person just before failure arrogance steps in the way to boost what they may have so that they can lose it big.
just b/c you're black doesn't mean i owe you ANYTHING!
support our president or leave.
I am glad, jindal is rejecting the stimulus. In everyman's life, there is a moment, where you stand for your principles and not cave in like the senators Arlen Specter and other two senators from Maine. Clyburn wants to talk about stimulus, then discuss the merits and demerits. Don't come out and try to play the age old democratic weapon of raising the race issue.
He needs a slap in the face. Blacks are more racist than whites. Shut up
Anyone that supports Clyburn on this is themselves racist.
Where in the world did Race come up in this issue??? Or does Clyburn know that this Stimulus is only going to help people of color?? It is people like him that keeps race an issue. Mr. Clyburn did you forget that you represent all the people (all races!) and not just your "people". Get off the race issue and start doing something productive in D.C. I dont blame these Governor's thinking over whether they want to accept. As my mother said "Nothing in LIfe is free" and the way the Govt is, you could be signing over your first born to Obama's forces!!!
Hey Annie,
You are explictly still supporting Sarah Palin, and you have the audacity to call other people "dummies."
You should go look up the term "projection" in a psychology dictionary.
I thought this was a stimulus bill? did i miss something, how is it racist not to support this bill? I guess the money isn't targeted to any other group other then minorities Why doesn't the congressmen give up his pay raise to help the people he is saying that is not going to the right people. Also for all of you don't forget that the DEMOCRATS have been in charge of congress for the last TWO years. The blames does not just fall on your favorite whipping boy good ole W. Pelosi and Reid have just as much to do with our fiananical problems as W. I thought in July that the basis for the ecomonic problems was bad mortgages anyway. I know that Freddie and Fannie control 48% of all national mortagages, and guess who they cater to? The low income high risk people, which was forced down the banks throats in 1999 while your hero Bill I left us a surplus Clinton. so the Dems are just as much to blame for this problem as W.
Another Republican, Bobby Jinda, shown his true racist face. RESIGN NOW Jinda. Our country will no longer tolerate your racist kinds!
I don't agree that the attack is on this bail out is aimed at Black America. It is aimed at all colors who happen to be in the problems the bill is to serve. You know, it was just fine to bail out wall street... I don't recall Limbaugh or Hannity saying it was a travesty against the tax payers of this country! Now there is such an ourtcry that the wall are vibratinG! Look, bozos, these folks who have come up against hard times will get NOTHING given to them.... nothing but a second chance to keep their homes! A lower interest rate... but they will still be paying their loans! It will just take a whole lot longer!
I will say it, Republicans put the "R" in racism – this is common knowledge. They did not buy into the Stimulus because they couldn't get tax breaks for the rich and famous. They think the Stimulus is going to people of color. Fact check, it is going to all Americans who are need.
OPPONENTS OF THE STIMULUS BILL KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ECONOMICS AND HOW TO GET OUT OF DEEP RECESSION BUT YET BUILT UP A 11 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT FOR THIS COUNTRY.
YES THE REPUBLICANS CONGRESS!!
You People who allow someone... anyone lead you around by the ring in your noses because you are too dam.... I mean darned stupid to think for yourselves... you need your heads examined!
Pardon me for being so sick of the stupidity all around us! Limbaugh and Hannity love it!
This may enlighten or enrage you, however, you should read it:
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it"
Dr Adrian Rogers (1931-2005)
...and what is the national ranking of the states that these governors represent?? I would agree that they would have a point if their states ranked in the top 10 in the country. But, as a resident of SC, I can clearly state that this state ranks nearly dead last in every thing.
The dumbest thing this state ever did was to remove property taxes as a source of funding for education. It was replaced by sales tax revenue and we all know where that is. I am now paying less taxes for a 2,200 sq ft .house than I did for the 1,700 sq ft house I owned in south suburban Chicago in 1987!! ...go figure ..
Our schools are falling apart as well as our infrastructure.
I guess the way I see it, Clyburn is the racist. If he accuses the stimulus package and the governors of slapping the faces of the blacks, he is putting all whites in the same basket, right? He is doing to the whites, what he is accusing the whites of doing to the blacks. What a two faced man....oh, that's right, he's in the Congress. I don't believe that the definition of racism is only whites against the blacks. It works both ways and not with just whites and blacks. It refers to any race that is discriminated against by another. For some reason, and I guess with people like Clyburn, Sharpton and Jackson flapping their mouths all the time stirring the pot, we have come to believe it is only a white against the blacks thing and it is not. One of the biggest racists is Oprah Winfrey. And I do totally agree with the black minister that said the 98 percent black vote for Obama was a racist vote against the whites. Obama could have been the dumbest, most illiterate man on the face of the earth, but as long as his skin was black, that 98 percent would have voted for him. When I see the gangs and the punks and hoods that had to have voted for him, it really makes me mad that these are the kind of people that voted for him. They didn't use intelligence or education, just the color of his skin...SOOOOOO-just who are the racists? And I totally agree, when did the stimulus package, good or bad, become a bailout for the blacks? It would seem that Clyburn thinks it is. And if you listen to some of the blacks talk, i.e.-my mortagage is going to taken care of-they think so, too. And Eric Holder has to really get out and do some talking of his own. If he did, he would see that people are afraid, thanks to the blacks, to talk about race. It is a taboo subject in today's society thanks to people like Sharpton and Jackson prodding the blacks on and on. And judges so afraid to do what is right instead of what might be "politically correct" that they have created a whole race that is afraid to relax in their own country. Race is and always will be an issue in this country, thanks to people like Holder and Clyburn. Sort of makes the lives of those tens of thousands of white men that died setting them free, somehow worthless.
Is this the "national dialogue" on race the Attorney General was talking about? Makes it difficult when the premise of any discussion is that, if you are white you are racist, if you are black, you aren't