Racism in Congress: The Black Caucus

Capitalism Magazine ^ | December 23, 2002 | Ron Pisaturo

[chachacha]

Allow me to play devil's advocate....if Sharpton, Rangel, Clinton, et al, were confronted with this, they'd say blacks can't be racist because in order to be racist you have to have enough power to impose your racism on others.

Let me play devils advocate. If it was the average white guy explaing the situation you would have this explanation.

1. The Black Causus was behind the removal of Trent Lott.

2. NAACP was behind it.

3. Jesse

4. Al

5. Hitlary

6. Bill

Is this power or do we need to add more.

a. The power it must take to have a Black Miss America. We don't have a white.

b. The power it must take to have a Black basketball league.

c. Football league.

d. The power to remove a Flag from a Nations flag pole.

e. The power to release O.J back on the public scene.

f. The power to have all Black TV station.

g. The power to burn and loot.

h. The power to run the inner city school sytems using home grown terror and have total control over disciplinary system.

i. The power to blame white folks for every Ill.

I guess that's enough it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on.

[Quix]

Maybe because of recent net wanderings I'm more despairing of most things political.

But I don't think the blacks in congress--perhaps even most of them in the country--are going to do anything very significant except to go on being manipulated like women and other minorities by the puppet masters behind the scenes.

It seems to be almost all over but the shouting.

The plans for the Iraq war really do seem to have been in place since 1970. I was hoping that was not really true.

North Korea is moving into place to be a major provocateur in the wind up to WWIII.

Brazil has gone more overtly commie. Venezuela is teetering maybe away but who knows.

Mexico is still a huge corrupt mess with Chinese using it along with many other channels to flood our country with able bodied, military aged men well able to use the many reported weapons caches. The piddling example case we caught in the past is but a drop in the bucket though the number of arms were signiciant in that haul. Plugging one hole in a sieve doesn't do much.

A few well placed quakes; Mt Rainier; Yellowstone; Three Sisters and/or other volcanoes could set things up nicely or complicate things nicely.

Add in a few nukes to LA, NYC, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, DC, Seattle, Phoenix . . . the games could really begin.

Then if you throw in the claimed Russians, Germans and their sophisticated tanks and other arms reportedly seen in several places . . .

Throw in some serious unexpected biologicals and we could begin to look UP to FIND the deep doodoo.

RED DAWN would look like an easy Sunday Picnic.

When the saints, go marching in . . . Lord, I WANT TO BE IN THAT NUMBER . . .

[Texas Eagle]

Nicely done. Keep that handy.

[sushiman]

Bump

[Quix]

WHY COULDN'T WE DO A FREEPERS LAMPOON.

Come up with posters satirizing; lampooning and otherwise highlighting the extremely hideous hypocrisy of the left?

With the usual FREEPER creativity and cleverness, and resourcefulness, we SHOULD be able to have the whole country laughing its way to at least SOME enlightenment.

Alas, I fear Freepers have too many other personal irons in the fire. We won't take on any more significant projects until the next Presidential election . . . assuming there's going to be one.

Any other better ideas?

There's a list of spheres of rank hypocrisy. We AT LEAST NEED TO publically RUB SKULLERY'S POINTED NOSE IN HER OWN SH*T SO MUCH SHE WOULDN'T BE ABLE, MUCH LESS DREAM OF RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT!!!!

Her statements on Lott et al are beyond the pale--like every other aspect of the bw*tch.

[mhking]

Black conservative ping

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[Tailgunner Joe]

Running the Liberal Hate Maze

Jesse Jackson: "Problem Profiteer"

[TopQuark]

Capitalism makes racism unprofitable for the racist: If a business refuses to buy from the best supplier simply because of race, that business suffers a terrible competitive disadvantage.

This often repeated statement is garbage: the conclusion follows only it the suppliers do not form a cartel. Until a few decades ago, American suppliers formed a cartel wherein blacks were not supplied with the same services as whites. No profit loss resulted from that behavior.

[chainsaw]

If I am not mistaken the Congressional black caucus refused membership to a white congressman last fall or last summer.

[Tailgunner Joe]

No profit loss resulted from that behavior.

Except for all the profit that could have been made providing blacks with those services.

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BumPing

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RACIST'S

RACIST'S THAT PRACTICE COMMUNISIM

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The racists say on their web page that they are the 'conscience of the congress.'

[TopQuark]

Again not true: blacks did not have the purchasing power to buy them.

Ask yourself differently: segregation existed until mid-XX century; did we not have capitalism in this country?

Of course we did. But racism serves as a cartel. I could expand further by getting into more subtle cost counting. Consider, for instance, that admission of a black engineer, even if such were graduated in 1920, into a racist, all-white group would create a disruption and decrease productivity of that group. Not all additions of a member productive by himself make the group more productive.

The accounting done by the same simplistic minds that love to quote the seemingly only fact they have learned in Econ 101: monopoly is bad for consumer (they misunderstand that one also).

[Paulie]

"Actually, I don't think the CBC is racist."

Oh yes they are!

[Tailgunner Joe]

blacks did not have the purchasing power to buy them.

What's your magical solution to solve this? The redistribution of wealth? Affirmative discrimination?

What 'services' are you talking about anyway? Black people did have money and private property during segregation, you know. Some of them were even rich.

[judgeandjury]

..if Sharpton, Rangel, Clinton, et al, were confronted with this, they'd say blacks can't be racist because in order to be racist you have to have enough power to impose your racism on others.

And they would be dead wrong, as usual.

[Texas Eagle]

And they would be dead wrong, as usual.

When has that ever stopped them from spouting off?

[TopQuark]

You are mixing everything into one pile. Firstly, I pointed out that the above-given statement is not true.

Regarding teh rest:

What's your magical solution to solve this? The redistribution of wealth? Affirmative discrimination? Solve what? Segregation and racism?

Not everything can be solved by economic means. In this particular case, it is the overall sensibilities (hence economic preferences) of society that changed by 1960s. Private ownership of the means of production (capitalism) has nothing to do with that.

Black people did have money and private property during segregation, you know. Some of them were even rich.

Some were, of course. When you look at macro economic picture, you have to look at them as a group. As such they were extremely poor and are still more poor than whites.