Rep. James Clyburn - House Majority Whip
Mentioning white power, by the AP pimps, would be - ah - racist, no?
Posted on 12/04/2009 6:45:52 PM PST by Libloather
Black power has arrived — with some new challenges
AP Wire
Friday, December 4, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress — and face new challenges to using their long-sought influence.
There have been some victories — guaranteeing that stimulus money reaches the poorest parts of the country, expanding hate crimes legislation and moving to close health care disparities. But “in some ways, our strategies haven’t caught up with our own power,” said Benjamin Todd Jealous, chief executive of the NAACP.
“The civil rights community is used to passing big omnibus legislative acts,” he said. “We’re not so accustomed to having the power to slice and dice that into 20 pieces and attach that to various other appropriations bills.”
**SNIP**
So any new efforts to help blacks who remain disproportionately unemployed, incarcerated, unhealthy and undereducated will most likely come from the 42 members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
“The goal is closing all of these gaps,” said Rep. Barbara Lee, chairwoman of the caucus and a member of the House Appropriations Committee, which oversees budgetary spending. “When you look at all these huge systemic gaps, there’s still not equality and justice for all.” But due to recent advances among blacks — Obama’s election chief among them — there is a new resistance toward efforts aimed at helping black people specifically, said University of Pennsylvania history professor Mary Frances Berry.
“We’re used to being supplicants at the table,” Berry said. “Now they have to be smart. If they want to do something about unemployment, they can target those who have the highest rates.
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Mentioning white power, by the AP pimps, would be - ah - racist, no?
I thought the new hate crime law just aobut covered all the perverts not to mention the black homos.
no projectile vomit alert?
Those racist pigs can “rebuke” Joe Wilson all gdamn day long, and it ain’t gonna make one damn difference here.
Clyburn is one of the biggest, sleaziest race hustlers in congress. He’s scum of the first order. He can thank his position to gerrymandering.
This writer is delusional; in the northeast & southwest, blacks are being displaced by Hispanics, often with violent results, and due to their diminished birthrate, are headed the way of the natives. The fact that they’ve already been displaced by Hispanics as the largest minority group (10 years earlier than anticipated) says a lot; they still vote for the party that works hardest to exterminate them.
Mary Frances Berry lolbump
Oh yeah? Seems to me that they have learned how to use those unfortunate people as a crutch. All they have to do is keep them in place, keep them distracted, keep them dissatisfied, and keep them voting.
I REALLY hope blacks in Congress push ‘reparations’. Seriously, that would set back the cause of liberal racist blacks half a century at least.
It would be better, tatically, if we all used the word “Democrats” instead of “black caucus”. That’s Is after all the way Republicans are treated. Every ridiculous thing someone on the right does is turned into an indictment of all conservatives or Republicans.
Well said; poverty pimps. I’m happy that they identify themselves as different from other Congressional members; they’re a symbol of gerrymandering and focusing only on people who have the same skin color as them, and they flaunt that.
They’re being destroyed by “Brown Power”, in the urban areas and economically via jobs, and their Dear Leader has no choice but to be complicit in it to get elected. His amnesty will sink them even further, which coupled with the first “Black President” passing Welfare Reform in 1996 (which reuced their birthrate significantly) has made their future bleak indeed. “Whites” don’t have to do anything.
***I REALLY hope blacks in Congress push ‘reparations’. Seriously, that would set back the cause of liberal racist blacks half a century at least.***
Especially since reparations have already been paid in blood and human sacrifice on a hundred battlefields between the years 1861 and 1865.
Not exactly; if they leave it becomes a Hispanic district (see southern CA).
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House
Complete Bullcrap. Someone should tell this (gag) reporter how long the Dems had control of congress, and it hasn’t been 10 months.
Yes. The AP hasn't been much good for anything for ages.
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