Posted on 11/09/2020 9:54:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Though a Democrat has won the presidency, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn warned his party is being destroyed by the "defund the police" movement that arose over the summer.
"'Defund the police' is killing our party, and we've got to stop it," the South Carolina kingmaker said in an interview with CBSN Monday. It was a topic he said he and the late civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis discussed.
"John Lewis and I were very concerned when these slogans came out about 'defund the police,'" he said. "We sat together on the House floor and talked about how that slogan... could undermine the BLM movement, just as 'burn, baby, burn' destroyed our movement back in the '60s."
"John would never yell, 'burn, baby, burn;" John would never say, 'defund the police,' as progressive as he was, and I'm just as progressive as anybody else," Clyburn said. He went on to say that "we just lost Joe Cunningham," a South Carolina Democratic House member who lost his reelection bid against Republican Nancy Mace. "And we lost him over 'defund the police.'"
Clyburn said that John Lewis was removed as head of the civil rights group they had founded, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, by "burn, baby, burn" proponents.
He said they didn't want to see the same thing happen to Black Lives Matter, and he criticized the term "defund the police" for its lack of clarity.
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I would think so there Einstein however that is a moot point because the underlying premise of BLM is BS too. It's toxic on its own accord.
Fools think they can cage the beast the let out of the cave.
Clyburn does not strike me as the brightest bulb in the box, and he is way too quick to see ‘racism’ in every nook and cranny, but he is correct on this point.
As is happened, though, most of the newer Democrats, the Democrat/Socialists were not listening to him.
He is not nearly radical enough to satisfy The Squad.
Their biggest thrills come from destroying whatever structures of order exist at any given time.
They are not very good at creating and maintaining what a free society needs once they have run out of icons, systems and statues to destroy.
You’ll notice, of course, that Clyburn is not saying he disagrees with “defund the police”, just that it hurt them in the election.
Now THAT'S funny. Fat head racist.
Sorry bud, the toothpaste is already out of the tube and all over the shag carpeting.
So, contrary to popular belief, they do have two brain cells to rub together.
There was no “lack of clarity”, ask the 5 assassinated police officers in Dallas.
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