Posted on 09/22/2012 6:50:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Congressional Black Caucus was formed in 1971 to advocate on behalf of black Americans and hold lawmakers and the President of the United States accountable for policies adversely impacting blacks. The CBC is often referred to as the “conscience of the Congress.”
Considering the caucus’ history, it’s shocking CBC Chairman Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver admitted to the Root the CBC has been reluctant to criticize President Obama because he’s black. Never mind black unemployment under Obama for the past three years has been nearly double the national average and hit a record high of 16% in 2011. Black unemployment hasn’t been that high since 1984. I guess Cleaver also isn’t concerned black wealth has also plummeted under Obama. According to Pew Research Center, the average black family’s wealth is about $5,600 compared with $113,000 for whites.
According to Cleaver, “pride” about the president’s blackness trumps any concerns over current 14% black unemployment for members of the CBC. Cleaver said “if we had a white president we'd be marching around the White House.”
As the CBC celebrates their annual Legislative Conference this week in DC, it’s more than insulting that Rep. Cleaver can chuckle about the CBC giving Obama a pass on accountability for his failed agenda with blacks and all Americans. Cleaver’s glib reaction is particularly disturbing when you consider in 1970 the Democratic Select Committee, which later became the CBC, was outraged by President Richard Nixon’s refusal to meet with them. Nixon’s snub appeared to be the impetus for group’s name change a year later.
In 1971, the CBC boycotted Nixon’s State of the Union because he refused to meet with them and sent him a list of 60 policy recommendations, the link to which has been conspicuously removed from the CBC website. At least a year ago or two ago it was there. Perhaps Cleaver removed it because he didn’t want people asking why the CBC isn’t treating Obama with the same outrage.
After all, Obama refused to meet with the CBC until a full year in office even though 95% of blacks voted for him in 2008. That doesn’t seem to be the appropriate way to thank your most loyal voting bloc. Adding insult to injury, Obama spoke at last year’s CBC’s annual legislative conference and told blacks they were lazy and needed to look for jobs.
"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin.”
Cleaver joked with the Root when asked what he would do if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency in 2008 and the jobless numbers for blacks were this bad. “As much as I love Sen. Clinton I would have been all over her on 14 percent unemployment for African Americans. I would have said, "My sister, I love you, but this has got to go."
Apparently being America’s first black president has its benefits. It means the raging high unemployment and diminished wealth for blacks under Obama’s presidency ain't nothing but a thing to members of the CBC. The conscience of the Congress seems to have lost its way and sold his soul down the river in the name of giving deference to a brother named Barack Obama.
Cleaver and Maxine Waters: Role models for Black power gone sour
This is a parody, right?
The CBC is now the largest bloc in the House Dem caucus, and because of the VRA, most of their members are elected in near-perpetuity. It will be interesting to see if, whenever Pelosi goes, they attempt to get Cyburn the minority leader spot..
The CBC is now the largest bloc in the House Dem caucus, and because of the VRA, most of their members are elected in near-perpetuity. It will be interesting to see if, whenever Pelosi goes, they attempt to get Clyburn the minority leader spot..
The CBC is now the largest bloc in the House Dem caucus, and because of the VRA, most of their members are elected in near-perpetuity. It will be interesting to see if, whenever Pelosi goes, they attempt to get Clyburn the minority leader spot..
And there it is.
According to Cleaver, “pride” about the president’s blackness trumps any concerns over current 14% black unemployment for members of the CBC. Cleaver said “if we had a white president we’d be marching around the White House.”
Cleaver - your president is Mulatto; so you should at least be marching half-way around the White House, right?
Does this Black Racist realize Obama is Half-Whitey?
Yea,he was raised muslim or white!
The crowning achievement for the demonrat party: to elevate color over competence, character, charity, clarity and common sense and then get the rest of America to go along so no one will say bad stuff about us.
We are constantly tested in this life, but we, the people, have failed this one and now own the consequences.
great reason to vote for watching our country to up in smoke.
Recall the old warning that he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of a debate. This was never more true than in the current discourse about being black in America.
When Nobel Prize winning poet Tony Morrison, who is African-American, can write an October 1988 New Yorker article titled “Clinton as the first black president”, then what is “black”? When the NAACP calls the black conservative Kenneth Gladney, “not black enough”, and “not a brother” then what is “black”? When Time magazine’s Jack White calls Supreme Court Justice Thomas, “the scariest of all the hobgoblins”, saying “Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy”, than what is “black”? And when Obama, a man whose mother is Caucasian, and whose father was 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab, can tell us his autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity before *deciding* to be black, what is “black”?
When Bill Maher, during a panel discussion on HBO complains that Obama’s policies are “half-assed” “because he’s only half black.” and that “if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.”, and that “there’s a white man in him holding him back”, than what is “black”?
“Black” in all these contexts, as well as Juan Williams’s complaint on Fox News that the extraordinarily lopsided expression of Missouri voter sentiment in August of 2010 rejecting ObamaCare (in one county by 92%) was really about race, is not about “race” at all. It is about ideology, socialist ideology.
And demanding that one group of citizens fund perpetual “benefits” for another citizens, is just socialism, plain and simple. Anyone who is familiar with the Ten Commandments should be able to see this as the coveting it is.
With respect to BHO being black: it is not about the racial characteristics he was born with, it is about the ideology he adopted. It is not what percent black he is, it is about how thoroughly red he is.
B-HO launders money for a living. He laundered money in Chicago with hospital funds, state retirement funds, community organizing funds, and public housing funds.
During his presidency he has laundered money through the GM bailout, Solyndra and other green-energy hoaxes, and government contract work.
B-HO is the most successful crook the WH has ever housed. He cares not about the muslims, public education, nor citizen healthcare. All are opportunities for him to launder money to himself and his friends.
Obama is the 2012 version of O. J. Simpson. What he does or did doesn't matter at all. As far as the minority/black jury/voters was/is concerned, he's black and he's acquitted.
these are the same people who praise castro and chee..hard core communists..
“It’s not about party, but principle; it’s not about race, but righteousness.” Bishop E.W. Jackson’s Message to Black Christians .... outstanding!! Actually, this applies to ALL people who would call themselves ‘Christian’ and vote for a Democrat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_KaZ53eDg&sns=tw
Eeeechtually—the person calling itself Obama is Meerly one EIGHTH ‘black’, and truly one half (spit) WHITE and the rest be A-rab.
Kinda explains quite a lot these days, don’ it???
No matter. There's the "one drop" theory of slaveholding days. Or, in the case of Cherokee Princess Elizabeth Warren, the 1/32 of a drop theory.
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