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Clyburn Calls for Black Vote in Mid-Term Elections
By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Newswire
hile
there’s
at least a per-
ceived grow-
ing number of
Democrats who say they
want to replace Califor-
nia Rep. Nancy Pelosi as
the Democratic leader in
the House of Represen-
tatives, South Carolina
Rep. Jim Clyburn has
emerged as a favorite
among his peers to be-
come the first African
American to hold that
position.
In an exclusive inter-
view with the NNPA
Newswire, the 25-year
congressman said that,
while he’s ready for the
challenge,
Democrats
currently have much big-
ger fish to fry.
“The first order of busi-
ness is to win the [mid-
term] elections on No-
vember 6,” Clyburn said.
“That’s what I’ve been
concentrating on.”
Clyburn and Congres-
sional Black Caucus
Chair Cedric Richmond
each told the NNPA
Newswire that they’ve
identified 37 districts
across the country they
W
believe can be won by
Democrats this year,
which would wrest con-
trol of the House from
Republicans.
“We feel, with the right
kind of effort, we can
win,” Clyburn said.
Clyburn listed three
keys to success this No-
vember.
The first key, Clyburn
said, is to prioritize the
Black vote; Democrats
can’t afford to take the
African American vote
for granted.
Second, the Democrats
shouldn’t rely on an
anti-President
Donald
“
I’m in-
sulted the
President
of the Unit-
ed States
would den-
igrate the
office in
this way
Trump wave to get out
the vote. Finally, Clyburn
said that candidates must
advertise in the Black
Press, if they want to win
in November.
“We are also talking
about districts where
Barack Obama won twice
and where Hillary Clin-
ton also won, but these
voters don’t turn out for
the so-called ‘off-year
elections,’” Clyburn said.
“We can’t let these vot-
ers feel like we’re taking
them for granted.”
Clyburn, 78, said he
was recently taken aback
by one candidate, who
said that he could win the
Black vote by running on
an anti-Trump platform.
“Wait one second,” Cly-
burn said that he told the
individual. “We can’t just
go around being ‘Repub-
lican-light.’ We have to be
out there putting forth
an alternative message,
for our base, and we have
to reach out to Black vot-
ers and let them know
we’re not taking them or
any of our base for grant-
ed.”
To that end, Clyburn
said advertising cam-
paigns must largely in-
clude the Black Press.
“It’s very, very import-
ant…Chairman
Rich-
mond and I have had can-
didates in and we’ve been
telling them that one of
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the best ways to demon-
strate that you’re not
taking the Black vote for
granted is to advertise in
the Black Press,” Clyburn
said.
The National Newspa-
per Publishers Associa-
tion (NNPA) is the oldest
and largest trade group
representing the Black
Press, comprised of more
than 200 Black-owned
newspapers operating in
the United States.
“I’ve been in [the Black
Press]. My daughter and
I ran a newspaper down
South, so I know that
candidates tend to take
Black media for granted,”
Clyburn said. “They tend
to judge Black media the
same way they do other
media and you just can’t
do that, because the busi-
ness model is totally dif-
ferent.”
Each Sunday after at-
tending Morris Brown
A.M.E.
Church
in
Charleston, S.C., Clyburn
said he and other church-
goers habitually pick up
the local Black-owned
newspaper.
“People tend to pay at-
tention to the headlines,
the stories and the ads
in the Black Press so it’s
vitally important that
candidates know this,”
Clyburn said.
A
former
history
teacher, Clyburn said
Trump’s obsession with
dismantling Obama’s leg-
acy is reminiscent of tac-
tics employed by Andrew
Johnson to demean his
predecessor, Abraham
Lincoln.
Johnson, who was im-
peached by House, had
a vision of America as
a White man’s govern-
ment, according to histo-
rians.
“If you remember, it’s
the same kind of reaction
Johnson had to Lincoln
and I remember sitting
alone once in the Oval
Office with Obama and I
told him that this would
be the kind of reaction he
could expect,” Clyburn
said.
“[Obama] was never
going to get the kind of
respect for his presi-
dency that was shown to
presidents before him,”
Clyburn said. “The nar-
rative that exists in this
country is that there are
certain things that Black
folks are not supposed
to do and one of those
things is becoming the
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president of the United
States and [President
Trump] and his adminis-
tration, feel they have to
do whatever they can to
wipe out any semblance
that Barack Obama was
ever president of the
United States.”
Clyburn
continued:
“[Trump] has a deep-seat-
ed hatred for people of
color and it manifests it-
self every day.”
Though he doesn’t sup-
port or agree political-
ly with former Trump
aide Omarosa Manigault
Newman, Clyburn said
he was deeply troubled
when Trump referred to
her as a “low life” and a
“dog.”
“I’m the father of three
daughters and I’m deep-
ly insulted by the presi-
dent of the United States
referring to an African
American women the
way he referred to her,”
he said. “Politics aside,
I’m insulted that the
president of the United
States would denigrate
the office in this way.”
Clyburn
continued:
“The president asked
an important question
when he was running,
‘What do we have to
lose?’ Well, we have lost
dignity and the respect
of the presidency, be-
cause of his coarseness
in the office. When you
lose respect, you’ve lost
about everything there is
to lose.”
While he still supports
Pelosi, Clyburn said that
if the Democrats take
back the House, he’s up
for the job as speaker.
“I have always support-
ed her, but I have always
remembered a sermon
I heard my father give a
number of times,” Cly-
burn said. “That sermon
stayed with me and he
said, ‘keep your lamps
trimmed and burning to
be ready when the bride-
groom comes.’ My point
is, I’ve never forgotten
that sermon so I keep
my lamp burning so I’m
ready.”