Failing Their Own(Congressional Black Caucus)

Los Angeles Times ^ | March 30, 2006 | Jonah Goldberg

[kellynla]

I'M THINKING of a cabal of radical legislators who don't reflect the views of average Americans or even the interests of their own constituents. They use wedge issues, play the race card and push their party to the ideological extreme. They collude with outside activists, many of whom use religion as a Trojan horse for a radical political agenda.

Sound like those perennial paladins of villainy, the congressional GOP? Guess again. This is the Congressional Black Caucus.

The caucus lives in a fantasy in which it is the "conscience of the Congress." Immune to the sort of scrutiny that many other groups receive, it has benefited from the soft bigotry of low expectations for decades.

As the Economist recently noted, gerrymandering and Democratic politics have resulted in a caucus well to the left of black America. Only four of 43 members of the group voted to ban partial-birth abortion in 2003, even though a majority of blacks favored such a ban. Most African Americans favor school choice, but because the caucus is firmly ensconced in the teacher-union racket, it bars the schoolhouse door to black kids who want a better education via vouchers. A majority of blacks oppose outright racial quotas, but don't tell that to the caucus. Or that blacks are heavily opposed to gay marriage.

[OKIEDOC]

I believe Ms. McKinney could be a poster child for the Congressional Black Congress.

These guys make the KKK look like pikers when it comes to flagrant racism to push their out of the mainstream agendas.

[EagleUSA]

Ah yes, welcome to the liberal caucuses. They are useless, except only to themselves. And major troublemakers to boot.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

You can tell such, but you can's tell such much.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

With illegal Mexican immigrants featured so prominently across the tv screen in recent days I wonder how the average black person in the country feels about the circus side show that represents them in Washington DC?

Millions of hispanics from south of the border risk everything....even their lives .....seeking a better life north of the border.

No, America is not the "great Satan" like middle eastern fanatics warn!

After a while, we see Mexican small businesses sprout up like mushrooms out of the dark.....construction, landscape, hair salons........

and where is the mass influx of domestic black entrepreneurs?

You won't see any.

Other than Bill Cosby and some "uncle Tom" scholars, the so-called black leadership is devoid of real leaders.

Race hucksters abound, however.

Jackson, McKinney, Sharpton and their ilk blow smoke across the land like steam rising from freshly excreted horse droppings!

Where is the black "Horation Alger"?

The economic opportunities are as abundant as ever in this nation's longevity.

Blacks should learn a lesson about the country into which they have been so fortunate to have been born!

It's high time to look farther than the neighborhood street corner.

The future beckons all to better times if only the path can be marked.

[BackInBlack]

"These guys make the KKK look like pikers when it comes to flagrant racism to push their out of the mainstream agendas."

Well, that's a preposterous statement, but the CBC is made up of a bunch of self-important goons whose politics are well to the left of their constituency.

[kellynla]

"With illegal Mexican immigrants featured so prominently across the tv screen in recent days I wonder how the average black person in the country feels about the circus side show that represents them in Washington DC"

It was reported on Fox today that the NAACP website has nothing about the illegals on its site.

I know the Brothers have been fighting the Latinos in the local jails in L.A.

And what is not reported, is that the Californian citizens of Mexican descent are pissed off with the illegals ruining their neighborhoods and taking their jobs. But Bush ain't listening...

[blam]

"...and where is the mass influx of domestic black entrepreneurs?"

Wouldn't that be acting White?

[eggman]

They're still Black but they are Congress-persons first and to get there and stay there they have sold their souls to the Democrat Party.

[Armigerous]

Where is the black "Horation Alger"?

...I think Ward Connerly would qualify as the black "Horatio Alger"

[SR 50]

ping

[Carolinamom]

I'm Caucasian, but my "Representative" in Congress is Mel Watts, currently the President of the Congressional Black Caucus. As such, he does not represent whites either.

[OKIEDOC]

Excellent observation.

[OKIEDOC]

BackInBlack wrote:
"These guys make the KKK look like pikers when it comes to flagrant racism to push their out of the mainstream agendas."

Well, that's a preposterous statement, but the CBC is made up of a bunch of self-important goons whose politics are well to the left of their constituency.

REPLY:

Preposterous maybe, but the truth is the so called black leaders of today have become so emboldened over the years that they do not hesitate to bad mouth traditional America.

For the last 40 years some have used the civil rights movement as a vehicle to ferment antisocial behaviors within their communities.

The Black Congressional Congress sets as it's example the empowerment of some of the most vile, radical leaders since John Brown and his raiders.

Honestly, I do no know why Whites have been so cowardly as to take the racists bombardments from the likes of Louis Farahkan, Charles Barron, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and racists groups such as the NAACP, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam and Yahweh Ben Yahweh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus
"Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts made national headlines when he refused to join the Caucus, calling the group a bunch of "race-hustling poverty pimps."

All current Caucus members are Democrats.)

Sanford Bishop of Georgia
Corrine Brown of Florida
G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina
Julia Carson of Indiana
Donna Christian-Christensen of the U.S. Virgin Islands
William Lacy Clay, Jr. of Missouri
Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri
Jim Clyburn of South Carolina
John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan
Elijah Cummings of Maryland
Artur Davis of Alabama
Danny K. Davis of Illinois
Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania
Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee
Al Green of Texas
Alcee Hastings of Florida
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. of Illinois
Bill Jefferson of Louisiana
Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas
Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan
Barbara Lee of California
Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas
John Lewis of Georgia
Cynthia McKinney of Georgia
Kendrick Meek of Florida
Gregory Meeks of New York
Juanita Millender-McDonald of California
Gwen Moore of Wisconsin
Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois
Major Owens of New York
Donald Payne of New Jersey
Charles B. Rangel of New York
Bobby Rush of Illinois
Bobby Scott of Virginia
David Scott of Georgia
Bennie Thompson of Mississippi
Edolphus Towns of New York
Maxine Waters of California
Diane Watson of California
Mel Watt of North Carolina
Albert Wynn of Maryland

[BackInBlack]

What you're saying is basically true, but to compare them to the KKK -- indeed, to say they're far worse than the KKK -- is ridiculous. The CBC fans the flames of their own constituencies' suspicions of whites, and that's a divisive and counter-productive thing to do. But they're not out lynching anybody, they don't claim their race is superior, they never put burning crosses on people's lawns, and they never caused a population of white people to live in fear. Take caution in your glib assessments.

[OKIEDOC]

Yes I agree with you.

However, a few crosses burnt on a lawn, though bad, dose not equate to the mob mentality that is often associated with the KKK.

I see the CBC as being behind the scenes enablers in the racism debate.

They wanted to support Cynthia McKinney and her phony charges of racism but the overwhelming political fall out made them change their minds.

[BackInBlack]

"I see the CBC as being behind the scenes enablers in the racism debate."

I basically agree.