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Black power has arrived — with some new challenges (reparations - tax-cheat Charlie exempt)
Wenatchee World ^ | 12/04/09

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wenatcheeworld.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: black; maryfrancesberry; obama; power; rangel

Rep. James Clyburn - House Majority Whip

Mentioning white power, by the AP pimps, would be - ah - racist, no?

1 posted on 12/04/2009 6:45:54 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
"expanding hate crimes legislation"

I thought the new hate crime law just aobut covered all the perverts not to mention the black homos.

2 posted on 12/04/2009 6:51:38 PM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN BANG BANG YEA YEA)
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To: Libloather

no projectile vomit alert?


3 posted on 12/04/2009 6:53:49 PM PST by robomatik
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To: Libloather

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.


4 posted on 12/04/2009 6:54:27 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Libloather

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.


5 posted on 12/04/2009 6:54:35 PM PST by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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To: Libloather

Mary Frances Berry lolbump


6 posted on 12/04/2009 7:02:16 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (Good Lord deliver us)
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To: Libloather
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.

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.

7 posted on 12/04/2009 7:14:15 PM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: Libloather

I REALLY hope blacks in Congress push ‘reparations’. Seriously, that would set back the cause of liberal racist blacks half a century at least.


8 posted on 12/04/2009 7:15:45 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: Libloather

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.


9 posted on 12/04/2009 7:32:46 PM PST by mc6809e
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To: oyez

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.


11 posted on 12/04/2009 7:48:15 PM PST by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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To: Carlos Martillo II
If those constituents become able to generate some wealth and become mobile that gerrymandered district disappears.
12 posted on 12/04/2009 7:56:31 PM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: MGMSwordsman

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.


13 posted on 12/04/2009 7:57:01 PM PST by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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To: vladimir998

***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.


14 posted on 12/04/2009 7:58:54 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Are my guns loaded? Break in and find out.)
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To: oyez

Not exactly; if they leave it becomes a Hispanic district (see southern CA).


15 posted on 12/04/2009 7:59:07 PM PST by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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To: Libloather

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.


16 posted on 12/05/2009 9:43:44 AM PST by gunner03
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To: Libloather
Mentioning white power, by the AP pimps, would be - ah - racist, no?

Yes. The AP hasn't been much good for anything for ages.


17 posted on 12/05/2009 10:23:46 AM PST by Lady Jag (Double your income. Fire the government)
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