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.
Exactly...somehow I’m racist as I refused to vote for Obama because I didn’t like his policies...sheesh...
They may be hurting the very people they pretend to help.
Obama blew the opportunity to bring everyone together. He decided to divide people against each other during his reign.
...so black caucus chairman declares he is a racist. Only sees color first.
Maybe not - everyone knows that fits of conscience are "nagging pangs"....
After Obama loses in a landslide victory for Romney they will blame Obama’s white half for his failures...
Someone in these types of interviews needs to point out to these black racist a-holes that Barack Obama IS NOT BLACK! Please, stop with that - he ia a mulatto, more white than black, a product of Affirmative Action preferences, and represents the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on America by a lying criminal media.
I have grown as tired of hearing about “blacks” and all their “grievances” as I have about “muslims” and all their “grievances”. I am sick unto death hearing about muslims.......
They didn’t need to confirm this. The rest of us who actually know and work and live around black people know their color trumps everything. And it’s a general statement but that’s my overall experience. I guess this is news to white libs in the media who have very little contact with people of color.
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Just stop with that. Obama is black. That’s how people see him, that’s the culture he relates to and identifies with, that’s how he looks. He is light skinned but, still a black man. Is there anything about him that lets you think he sees himself or in anyway identifies with white culture?
And unfortunately in this country there was the racist drop in the bucket rule that people still apply in this day and age, including people of color.
Obama is black.
Obviousness is obvious.
It's wonderful to see "progressives" admit that race matters. It's way past time we got over the whole "content of their character" nonsense, and let the color of someones skin trump all other concerns.
Congressional Black Caucus=The Klan with a tan.
THE most racist organisation in the United States of America.
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SOoo...
Cleaver and the rest of the CBC....
....are black racialists...
...preferring and kow-towing to the false messiah and his skin color...
INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH THE FACTS OF THE (POLICY) MATTERS....????
WHO KNEW??
Thanks Kaslin.
How many of the CBC are communists? A whole bunch of em!
They are totally despicable and racist to the core.
I could care less what any of these black KKK clowns think.
I wonder why FR is so slow.
I'm full of wonderment.
5.56mm
The moment someone cites skin color is the moment one must realize you are not dealing with a fair-minded individual, but one who wishes to skew all subsequent conversation. Therefore, these individuals must be rejected. They are divisive, antithetical to the notion of achieving true solutions.
They are, in fact, part (and in some cases, a significant part) of the very problem they seek to draw attention to.
Thomas Sowell is black. Barack Obama is something else, a black activist, a hateful racist.
Haven’t we heard this Ethnic Purity crap before? Say in the 1940s in Europe?.
...”Obama is black.”
No, he is not black. He has no connection to the so-called “African-American” experience as a descendant of slaves brought here starting in the 1600s. Obama actually is a chameleon, an elitist fraud who has been boosted through life because he exhibits 50% more melanin in his skin than a caucasian. Obama uses “blackness” when it’s convenient to him politically, but really is no different than any other limousine liberal hypocrite. There isn’t a cintilla of “blackness” in him.
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