Rep. Clyburn blasts AG Barr for comparing pandemic shutdowns to slavery, calling the remarks 'the most ridiculous, tone-deaf, God-awful thing I've ever heard.'
"You know, I think that that statement by Mr. Barr was the most ridiculous, tone-deaf, God-awful thing I've ever heard," Clyburn said, calling it"incredible" that the"chief law enforcement officer in this country would equate human bondage to expert advice to save lives.""Slavery was not about saving lives, it was about devaluing lives," Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black member of the House, continued.
The U.S. has had no national lockdown; rather, varying levels of shutdowns across the U.S. were imposed by individual states and their governors. Hitting President Donald Trump and his administration for their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has claimed the lives of nearly 200,000 Americans,, Clyburn claimed that if the administration was"going about the business of doing what is necessary to protect the people of this great country, we would be beyond this pandemic by now."
"It would have been great if we had a national lockdown so that people's lives would be saved and our children will be going on with their lives today, as they should be," he continued."But that is just what we're up against here."
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