Trump helps African Americans! NFL star-turned-congressman Burgess Owens voices support for Donald and slams Joe Biden as ‘the last segregationist in US politics’

US Congressman and former NFL star Burgess Owens voices support for Donald Trump’s campaign and denounces President Joe Biden as “the last segregationist in American politics.”

Owens, an African-American Republican from Utah’s Fourth District, specifically credited Trump for helping black entrepreneurs during his one term in office.

“Donald Trump delivered record growth across all communities,” Owens, a former Jets and Raiders defensive back, said in a statement. Born in the segregated South as a child, I witnessed Donald Trump helping the black community more than any president in my life. Record growth for black business owners, and to answer this the Democrats nominated the last segregationist in American politics, Joe Biden.”

Owens, 72, endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020, when former Jets and Raiders defensive backs were first elected to the House of Representatives.

“Biden has declared to the world that if you don’t support him, ‘you’re not black,’ again, I don’t support him,” Owens continued. “I’m proud to be able to support Donald Trump in 2024, and I pray he has the opportunity to end the record growth he started. We need his courage to undo the damage Joe Biden has done before it’s too late.”

While praising Trump (left) as a job creator, Owens denounced Biden (right) as a ‘segregationist’

Trump has frequently pointed to the number of jobs for African Americans during his term to support his status as a job creator.

“We’ve revitalized job creation in America and achieved record-low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women — almost everyone,” Trump said.

Job creation even slowed in 2017, Trump’s first year in office, to about 2 million, compared to nearly 2.5 million in 2016, Obama’s last year in office.

Then, of course, came the COVID-19 pandemic that cost the US economy 10 million jobs, making Trump the first president since Herbert Hoover to oversee a net loss in that area. And according to a 2022 study by the organization for economic cooperation and development.

Before the coronavirus, nearly 500,000 manufacturing jobs were added under Trump, slightly better than the nearly 400,000 gained during Obama’s second term. Yet, even before the pandemic, the US had 4.3 million fewer factory jobs than in 2001, the year China joined the World Trade Organization and a flood of cheaper imports from that country poured into the US.

The country had the most jobs on record before the pandemic, but some experts attribute that to a growing population.

Burgess Owens is seen advancing the football against the Rams after a 1982 interception

Nobel laureate economist Paul Romer looked at Trump’s economic growth numbers. Growth under Trump averaged 2.48 percent per year before the pandemic, which is more than the 2.41 percent gains achieved during Obama’s second term. In contrast, the economic expansion that began in 1982 during the Reagan presidency averaged 4.2 percent per year.

A University of Miami standout before the school’s glory years in the 1980s, Owens was selected 14th overall by the Jets in the 1973 NFL Draft.

He would win Super Bowl XV as a member of the Los Angeles Raiders before retiring in 1982.

It was during that final season that he and his wife joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, prompting him to move to Utah, the religion’s cultural mecca.

In addition to becoming active in charitable organizations, Owens also became a regular guest contributor on Fox News and used that notoriety for a successful 2020 congressional campaign — the same year he spoke at the Republican National Convention.

Utah Congressman Burgess Owens addresses the virtual convention on August 26, 2020

Currently, Owens serves on the Education and Labor and Judiciary committees.

Owens previously highlighted former President Donald Trump’s ability to shed light on real American values ​​and focus on what matters most. He told the Daily Caller in February 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, that “what our country is all about, what our conservatism is about, what our American way is about is Head, Heart, Hands and Home.” Head is education, Heart is God, Hands are industry and free market, and Home is family.’

Owens is the second Utah legislator to endorse Trump’s 2024 campaign in August. Mayor Trent Staggs of Riverton, Utah, seeking to fire Senator Mitt Romney, announced his support for Trump on Aug. 3 while decrying President Joe Biden’s past in office.

Owens, played 10 seasons in the NFL with both the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders.