I found this quote on wikipedia when I was browsing the entry a while ago, a white MOC attempted to join the CBC to fulfill a campaign promise, his district largely black, he was denied, this from Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr., D-Mo:
"Quite simply, Rep. Cohen will have to accept what the rest of the country will have to accept - there has been an unofficial Congressional White Caucus for over 200 years, and now it's our turn to say who can join 'the club.' He does not, and cannot, meet the membership criteria, unless he can change his skin color. Primarily, we are concerned with the needs and concerns of the black population, and we will not allow white America to infringe on those objectives."
It strikes me that if the members of the Congressional Black Caucus actually feel that the rest of the House is an *unofficial White Caucus* then they have no business having any say as to who may or may not *join that club*, in essence, no more from them on anyone running for election to a House seat, I don't want to see them in the future on any pundit/talking-head show offering opinion or commentary on House races.
Time to call them what they are ...THE KLAN WITH A TAN