Somewhat disappointed with Rep. Clyburn

[kansasobama]

Report: Rep. Clyburn Disappointed With Cabinet Picks

South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn told The Hill that not enough Black Americans have been nominated to join the incoming Biden administration.

https://www.newsy.com/stories/report-rep-clyburn-disappointed-with-cabinet-picks/

The top pick VP Harris? And, the process is not even over. No wonder Democrats have problem maintaining majority.

[brush]

1. Relax. It's called reminding Joe who bought him to the dance.

That's how the game is played.

[helpisontheway]

2. I'm disappointed too. If he has a problem he should go directly to Joe/Kamala not the press. Nt

[Sucha NastyWoman]

3. I'd have to agree with you.

On the report I saw (think it was CNN) they said he had only picked one black person for his cabinet so far, and never mentioned Kamala Harris.

When he does choose the next black or Hispanic or female member of his administration, I’d like to think it was not a choice made on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex, but a choice of who could really do the best job, and that in the end a sufficiently diverse administration would result, so that no Democrat could question his choices.

[LovingA2andMI]

15. Who Got Him Into Office?

Black Americans in Detroit, Milwaukee and Philly. Yes, we are owed something and Rep. Clyburn is right on point.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

23. A lot of different and important coalitions

Anyone one of which we can’t do without.

Although I agree that black women are probably the most important and most loyal voters in our party.

[LovingA2andMI]

16. Who Got Him Into Office?

Black Americans in Detroit, Milwaukee and Philly. Yes, we are owed something and Rep. Clyburn is right on point.

[WVGal1963]

4. Oh stop!

Give it a break, DU!! STOP doing this....NO MORE DIVISION!! Give PE Biden more time.

[LAS14]

6. Sounds like the OP was giving Biden a break! nt

[Hortensis]

5. First female AND Indian-AA VP, PLUS the most diverse cabinet in history --

already and not finished appointing.

Clyburn's just pushing for more appointments from his own racial caucus, and that's not out of line for a man of his stature. AA are 13.3% of all Americans after all.

But I do hope he's not really disappointed with our first female director of national intelligence, our first black female ambassador to the UN, and our first female secretary of the treasury. After all, every one of these women break the glass ceiling for HALF of all AA, and black women matter. And of course hopefully he's not really disappointed with our first Latino immigrant head of the Department of Homeland Security.

President-Elect Biden: "While this team has unmatched experience and accomplishments, they also reflect the idea that we cannot meet these challenges with old thinking and unchanged habits."

So true!

[LAS14]

8. "our first black female ambassador to the UN," .... Susan Rice???? nt

[Orangepeel]

12. Linda Thomas-Greenfield

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/politics/linda-thomas-greenfield-profile/index.html

Washington (CNN)Linda Thomas-Greenfield grew up in Louisiana, "in a segregated town in which the KKK regularly would come on weekends and burn a cross in somebody's yard," she recounted in a TED Talk in 2018. Neither of her parents graduated high school.

Attending Louisiana State University in the early 1970s, she encountered a "hostile environment" where she faced harassment and racism.
She was forced out at the outset of the Trump administration after a decades-long career at the State Department.

Now Thomas-Greenfield is poised to take on one of her country's most senior diplomatic jobs as President-elect Joe Biden's pick to be US ambassador to the United Nations.

[marmar]

13. The point is that Susan Rice was the first.

[Hortensis]

24. Whoops, hipped on firsts. :) Second, and that's its own point also. nt

[BusyBeingBest]

7. Biden has already listened to him quite a bit.

Not sure he was supposed to let one guy in the House dictate all his choices.

[CentralMass]

18. Well he was given all the credit for Biden winning the primary by many.

[jcgoldie]

21. Which he deserves

Biden's campaign was in a very precarious position when he arrived in South Carolina and Jim Clyburn had more to do with him turning it around there than anyone. I do not think any endorsement carried as much weight all year.

[Hortensis]

25. :) Propagandists and gullible dopes. Voters in 48 states were NOT swinging right

to follow the lead of whitey-white little IA and NH. Or collapsing in despair because we'd already lost!

The Big Money-owned MSM, and of course the hostile left, were pushing that idea hard, of course -- Biden was already shot down, whole election over at the starting line. Biden had longstanding strong support in NC, and Clyburn did what he was supposed to to keep turnout from dipping a bit -- NOT to keep support from tanking.

I just wish those who did buy the media sabotage might belatedly consider how enormously insulting it was to our voters in NC. And everywhere else.

[still_one]

9. No surprise The Hill is pushing this. I suspect The Hill is shading this in a more negative tone

than Rep Clyburn expressed

[marmar]

10. Agreed.

[a kennedy]

14. Got that right......ugh, The Hill, one of the worst one sided organizations ever.i

[marmar]

11. "No wonder Democrats have problem maintaining majority."

???

[tavernier]

17. Yup. Not one Latvian/American chosen so far.

Hey, we are good looking and smart, kick your ass in sports, and if you ever eat piragi and skabie kaposti, you too will be singing LIGO songs and wearing an oak leaf crown on your head ever year at summer solstice.

[WhiteTara]

19. I think he's happier now that the new SoD is the first black man

to hold that position.

[marmar]

20. That's not official yet though, right?

[WhiteTara]

22. No, I don't think it has been announced, just

heavily rumored.

[RandiFan1290]

26. Welcome Back to DU

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