Cynthia McKinney is not just a nut but she and her papa are anti-semitic as all get out.
I heard recently that the reason the Kwiesi Mfume left the NAACP, was because of an argument with Julian Bond about George Bush. I heard that Mfume was willing to "go half-way" so to speak with Bush in trying to help black entrepeneurs and such. Bond did not like that at all because he hates Bush. Mfume tried to make the point that the NAACP is not supposed to be partisan, so listening to and working with Bush and GOP would show non-partisanship.
Then, last week I read that Mfume and Bush were to meet privately. Do ya'll think maybe that Mfume may have had a talk with the CBC after his conversation with Bush, and said that you might want to not become super-glued to the nuts on the liberal side of the Dem party? Maybe, Bush convinced him that he really doesn't where a white sheet around the ranch in Texas.
Bump to that theory.
You've made me curious if indeed this could be a result of that meeting. Certainly I wouldn't expect the BCC to come out in favor of Thomas, even in this very mild late response. You may be on to something.
Could even include competition between the BCC and NAACP.
I do wonder if Hispanics overcoming blacks as the majority minority, as well as their willingness to split their vote between parties, may have done more to shake up these coalitions than Condi, Colin or Thomas.
For the first time they have competition. They've regulated themselves even behind the gay community in willingness to split support. This hurts their influence in Washington. If it keeps on in this vein, they will be irrelevent a decade from now.
Mfume strikes me as an opportunist, so it wouldn't shock me.