Jim Clyburn claims Democrats are using racial dog whistles to remove him from leadership

  Since winning the majority in the House last week things have unexpectedly not gone smoothly for the Democrats and it all revolves around electing their own leadership. We have seen what is happening with Nancy Pelosi and the growing opposition to her Speakership and now Jim Clyburn is accusing Democrats of using racist dog whistles in an attempt to undermine his bid to regain his Majority Whip position.

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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) is accusing Democrats of using racial “dog whistles” to oust him from the party’s House leadership.

Clyburn is the highest-ranking black Democrat in leadership as the assistant leader, and he is seeking to regain his Majority Whip position that he held the last time Democrats were in the majority.

“I don’t know where it’s all coming from,” Clyburn reportedly told McClatchy on Tuesday. “But someone came to me over the weekend and told me that (they heard), when I was whip before, I was a figurehead.”

According to McClatchy, Clyburn, who said that “nothing could be further from the truth,” reportedly added that “suggestions that, as the only black member of the leadership team, he was a token and not an effective leader, were tantamount to ‘the little dog whistles that have been floating around this side for a long time.’”

  Usually Democrats only use the term “dog whistle” when they are attacking Republicans and they have nothing else they can throw at them. That is when the mud-slinging usually begins but here we have a Democrat accusing his fellow Democrats of being racists and you might have noticed he said this was going around on the Democratic side “for a long time.”

  Of course this is the party of one of Hillary Clinton’s heroes, Robert Byrd, so the fact the Democratic party is being accused of institutional racism is not surprising to many of us but what is surprising is that a Democrat finally brought it to light.

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