Black Congressmen Under Investigation? Must Be Racism!
For many conservatives, the only benefit to accrue from Barack Obama becoming president is the notice his election served to those who portray our nation as a bastion of oppression. Thankfully, his inauguration illustrated (once again) that rank-and-file Americans are among the least racist and prejudiced persons on earth. This outcome was no minor blessing in light of the daily war that the political left wages on our culture and history. Despite having to combat the presence of a radical ideologue in the White House, conservatives hoped our opponents would desist in their longtime passion for pretending that America is racially unchanged since 1959. Our fine country is no longer marred by the practice of slavery or segregation (no thanks to the Democratic Party), and the elevation of my former senator was yet another indication of how far society has evolved.
However, for those who care more for fantasies of power and control than their homeland, acknowledgment of progress is verboten as, without resentment and grievance, pseudo-liberals would lose control over their constituencies entirely.
If Democrats did not peddle victimology and faux moral superiority, their status would be reduced to that of a fringe party, and they would end up having to get in line for a statist bailout of their own.
In 2009, only if one refuses to examine reality can race be depicted as a major societal problem. In order to sell the chimera of “institutional racism,” activists must dumb the concept of discrimination down to the point in which even unknown words evidence a foul heart.
Passé is the idea that one should take no offense where none is intended. Thanks to progressives, we freely explain to others not only how they offended us but also why their intent is irrelevant.
Most of us are never sure of what we can say or what we cannot. Our trepidations in regards to speech are profound and our high anxiety over race is perfectly illustrated by a recent news story at the Politico.
Its text and subtext elucidate societal dysfunction along with the mainstream media’s passion for exacerbating (read: fabricating) racial tensions.
The title of the piece, “Racial Disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers,” suggests the fashion by which political correctness trumps truth in our interesting times.
The editors at Yahoo.com deemed this editorial report so integral that they featured it atop their popular homepage as well. Essentially, it is a story full of character but devoid of plot:
The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice Department hadn’t asked the committee to stand down. Not a single white lawmaker is currently the subject of a full-scale ethics committee probe.
I italicized the last sentence due to its being the sole rationale for why — in the eyes of the press — this banal announcement is newsworthy. Congressional representatives getting probed for corrupt practice is about as unremarkable as discovering that a cat climbed a tree.
Apart from skin hue there is nothing novel about the Politico’s tale. Moreover, none of it matters in the final analysis. The case of Representative Charles Rangel proves that the speaker of the House possesses a “no enemies on the left” mentality when it comes to prosecuting the criminality that blossoms in her midst.
This article is pretty well written, but I disagree with the following statement: “For many conservatives, the only benefit to accrue from Barack Obama becoming president is the notice his election served to those who portray our nation as a bastion of oppression.”
All in all, I am sure plenty conservatives understand that the election of Barack Obama can benefit the country quite a lot in the long run. Please read my article from November 2008 here:
http://hyphenatedamericans.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-can-live-with-obama_02.html
The Dishonorable Charles Rangel, a proven liar and tax evader, has been a blot on Congress’s escutcheon almost since the day of his election. That simply doesn’t matter:
– He’s a hard-left liberal;
– He’s black;
– He’s a Korean War veteran;
– He’s a Democrat — and a New York Democrat, at that.
There is no honor in the Democrat Party. There’s plenty of power lust, and enough mendacity and venality to fill a hundred legislative chambers, but no honor. Consider the cases of Mel Reynolds, Gerry Studds, John Edwards, and Edward Kennedy, and see if you can disagree.
In 2009, only if one refuses to examine reality can race be depicted as not being a major societal problem … and despite everything we may be fed by the tyrannically-politically-correct multi-culturalist third-world criminal-migrant-opportunists — their hesperophobic racism is more than ever an institutionalized force that rages in the United States.
How else than racism (including that 96% of colored folks voted for him!) to explain the “election” of the pathetic pretender to what presently passes as a “presidency?”
If a “white man” with the zero-visible-academic-qualification, effective disbarment-for-cause, razor-thin résumé and simply bloody awful track-record of un-and-anti-American and terrorist associations had showed up in place of this Soros-produced and Hollywood-scripted-and-directed, British-Kenyan-descended empty-galabia glove-puppet?
(Even in Chicago) He’d have been laughed out of town.
Racism is alive and well in America and, to prove it, the sail-eared-simpleton, 0zero and his ilk have the (1950-high-school-graduation-level — and falling) ivy-league “degrees” and may pretend to whatever government-check-remunerated “jobs” they desire. While the rest of us have them and their fascisterrorist mates “running things” — and the dumbed-down slouching-to-Gomorrah everything else!
Brian Richard Allen
Lost Angels – Califobambicated 90028
And the Very Far Abroad
You expect me to believe that the rank-and-file Americans are among the least racist and prejudiced persons on earth when 92+ percent of the black people in our country still strongly support everything Obama says and does?
You expect me to believe that the rank-and-file Americans are among the least racist and prejudiced persons on earth when close to 95 percent of the black race voted for Barrack Obama and no one knows for sure how many confused; other wise normal non-blacks voted for him because it was the racially needed and right best thing to do?
Dump the manure then come back and write an article Mr. Chaplin.
2. Francis W. Porretto:
“There’s no honor in the Democratic Party”. I beg to differ with you, there’s no honor in the republican or democratic party. Both parties are comprised of career political hacks; pigs at the public trough.
“They” want us to believe this is a left vs. right issue which simply obfuscates the fact that it is not. It’s about the Constitution. Repeal the 17th Amendment for starters.
Everyone is overlooking Obama’s past, why not these guys?
While we’re at it, let’s just let all black felons out of jail because we know it’s racism that got them prosecuted and sentenced.
We need Congressional legislation that criminalizes insinuations that any black person is guilty of any crime.
We can do it; We are not above and beyond the ridiculous and insane. It’s what this administration is all about.
And the bible says; “The color of your skin shall determine your fate.” Let’s make it a Constitutional Amendment.
3. Brian Richard Allen:
This should have been the article.
This is just another racist attack on our new Leader.
We had an election last November. We won, you lost, and you will never get another chance. Racist white men no longer run this country. President Obama rules this country now and he will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice.
They’re right. It is racism. Every single Congresscritter should be under investigation.
Seriously, though, it seems that the blacks are especially prenicious in their bellying up to the trough. It’s because they are a protected class, and they know it. They can get away with more, so they are more shameless, and careless, about it. Congresscritters are all getting fat at the trough. The blacks just moreso, or rather, with less refinement at it.
The mere existence of a racial caucus is racist, btw.
Lars is right, I think. I finally stopped calling myself a Democrat when I realized that asserting that I was “a member of the Joe Lieberman wing” of the party no longer made any sense. But nothing I have seen induces me to consider becoming a Republican.
I noticed another factor in black political corruption–and I am hardly suggesting that non-black political corruption isn’t prevalent–in Detroit, where I worked a while back for a city government department and lived for nearly twenty years. (I moved to a nearby suburb when my landlord was foreclosed, not making a statement one way or the other.)
There is an entirely understandable factor–we were isolated from power for so long and now it’s our turn to reap the benefits of power, including being on the take. It’s also easier, in a way not open to non-black politicians, to respond to charges by circling the racial wagons.
I lived in Chicago for several years and again, I am hardly suggesting that corruption is something unique to black political culture. But a Chicago politician facing charges can’t very well start talking about how “they’re out to get another strong white man,” whereas such rhetoric does often resonate among the black community.
I understand and sympathize with this but it does have consequences. A couple of recent scandals in Detroit cause me to wonder whether anyone gets a municipal contract merely by offering a proposal that is the best of those submitted. “Pay for play” seems to be routine. This means that the contracts cost more money and are less likely to be fulfilled properly.
As I say, I understand why this sort of thing works but it has serious consequences, especially in a city whose tax base shrinks by the day.
Right is right and wrong is wrong no matter the color ! !
No one uses the race card like African-Americans. And earlier this year, Obama led the pack when he inferred racism on the white police officer who was questioning Obama’s black professor friend in the professor’s house. It’s automatic in many African-American mindset to use the race card to demonize non-blacks and create the illusion of mal-intent in those non-blacks where there is none. Of course, it’s always easier to do that than to look within yourself and accept that there may really be something wrong with you or acknowledge that you did something wrong or illegal.
That race card thing is really getting old and boring, and we’re all tired of it.
So, you’re saying that Americans elected a black affirmative-action president in order to prove that his race is irrelevant? Isn’t that a paradox?
A disproportion this big (all seven of members of Congressmen under investigation are black even though blacks make up less than a tenth of Congress) cannot be by chance. If there were no correlation between race and being investigation, the odds are something greater than a billion-to-one against such a thing occurring.
So what is it? Is the investigatory method biased biased? Are blacks that much more likely to be criminals?
My own theory — and devout hope — is this is a product of the race card itself. A sleazeball like William Jefferson would not even have gotten elected if he were white: blacks would have no special reason to vote for him, whites could point out his dishonesty without worrying about being accused of racism.
This might be the answer, as I say, I hope it is, but answer the question, one must ask it first and it strikes me as a weird “political correctness of the right” to criticize a reporter for bringing the matter up.
The CBC is the equivalent of the KKK in its segregationist and racist mission. They as a group are a bunch of losers. Do you really believe Maxine Waters could get elected in another non-black district? How about John Lewis, Rangle, Lee, etc. No they are there because and only because of their district lines which gave them mostly black congressional districts.
Of course many of the CBC are crooked. They know they have their race and MSM as get-out-of-jail free cards. They can get away with doing and saying just about anything. It is disgusting that our nation is being ruined by these charlatans and their white progressive enablers.
The paranoia and mendacity of the CBC was revealing by the anonymous quote. They truly believe they are above the law and better than us low-life white Americans. And they think they deserve their station by virtue of the vestiges of slavery.
Black people can’t be racist. Just look at Obama. If you read “his” books he tells you has a hate and disdain for white people. This is compounded by his actions and the actions of his administration. Case in point the black panthers and the professor. Yet it is Glen Beck who when pointing these things out got berated for stating the obvious.
A get out of jail free card for the first felony committed by any African-American born in the U.S.A.
Yes We Can!
Not to worry. Rangel is being investigated by the same Democrats promoting global warming. They need him to keep temperatures rising.
Who`s `We` and `You` #8?? Whom are you referring to when you say `you will never get another chance`? Isn`t BHO supposed to be the president of all of us? Did he not take an oath to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution?
I don`t know what farm you were grown on but BHO was elected to govern, not rule. If you want a ruler go live in Coo-ba, Venezuela or NK. The only `rule` we have in America is the Rule of Law which is conveniently being ignored regarding tax evasion by Rangel, Daschle, Sebelius, Geithner and others.
You are everything that is wrong with America. You voted for the color of a man`s skin instead of the content of his character.
When a black man plays the race card, it means he has nothing else to stand on but be a race hustler, a race vulture; therefore, it tells me the black man is guilty of his alleged crimes as sin. One can only cry wolf & lie about it until no one else believes you. This is what the race hustlers have done with the race card. Their over-use has sullied & corrupted their actions. When the race card is played, I know they cannot hide from the truth. The truth will out as a wise white man wrote long ago.
Yes We Did is an unthinking Leftist, an organic robot to be filled with Saul Alinsky’s methods of diversion, division, & corruption. Yes We Did should change its name to No We Didn’t.
OK YES WE DID, Don’t hold your breath.
One reason why no white congressmen are currently under investigation is that the favored (ie. black) congressmen have their investigations postponed and drawn out while the white congressmen get quick (if not summary) verdicts, often with the help of the press.
8. Yes We Did:
“This is just another racist attack on our new Leader.
We had an election last November. We won, you lost, and you will never get another chance. Racist white men no longer run this country. President Obama rules this country now and he will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice.”
Oh my lord, you sound like a snotty 4th grader that just got the kick ball because they coach bullied it from the other kids ’cause they’d never give it to you! We will get another chance my friend,
8. Yes We Did:
“This is just another racist attack on our new Leader.
We had an election last November. We won, you lost, and you will never get another chance. Racist white men no longer run this country. President Obama rules this country now and he will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice.”
You must be Clifford the Big Red Dog or a Teletubbie because you certainly have a loose grip on reality. “You” may have won; but you sound like an 8 year old in a school yard that just got the kick ball for the first time with no idea what to do next. Respect for the leader of the current regime is nil the world over. If the thumbsucking US media don’t report, it doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Read any international newspaper or editorial cartoon, it’s quite obvious.
no problem – let’s just investigate plenty of white politicians and then the percentages would be ok – it shouldn’t be to find corruption amongst the likes of Dodd, etc.
#8..Seriously dude, you’re not supposed to DRINK the bong water, ok? Got it? Now sit back, do a few more bong hits, ok alot more, check the mail box for your next government check and leave the running of the country to the adults. Say goodnight Gracie.
It used to be said that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. Now it is racism.
Didn’t you know?
When 3 White Duke lacrosse players are falsely accused of raping an African American girl, an act labelled as a “hate crime,” that’s not racism.
When Jesse Jackson refers to Jews as “Himeys,” and calls New York “Himey-Town,” that’s not racism.
But poor New Orleans African Americans who suffered Katrina’s devastation were victims of racism, nevermind they had a Black mayor, and that well-to-do African Americans left the city in time.
And we’ll never elect a Black President because of racism …except we already did. But if he loses re-election, the only possible reason will be… racism!! And though he was elected, his legislations will never pass because the racist majority won’t let him govern, nevermind that his party has a filibuster-proof majority in Congress, which already passed his multi-billion dollar stimulus package. But certainly healthcare reform will never pass -and that has nothing to do with the expected multi-trillion dollar price tag or its socialist overtones- it’s all due to racism!
There certainly are racists in this world -of all creeds and colors. But it’s pathetic to see how some run and hide behind the color of their skin to cover up their lack of merit.
Charlie Rangle is a crooked black demorat congressman and he must go and while we are at it send all his crooked cohorts with. i.e. John Murtha ,Maxine Waters and dear Miss nancy Pelosi
#8,,,
Unfortunately for you, most of the hiring for top level jobs in cooperate America is still being done by; “racist old white men”. But of course,,, the reason for that is,,, “they are racist”. (Everybody knows that)
On the other hand, regardless of color, if you have a decent degree, a competent CV, and are able to speak English without dropping the articles of speech, then you might survive a job interview for something higher than a clerk in the mail room. Better yet,,, there may even be an opening in the janitorial department.
Too bad for you. That’s life with a third grade education.
Well. The jack is finally out of the box. First, just because someone is CHARGED with an offense, does automatically mean that he/she is guilty. Second, it should be former president Bush that should be indicted and convicted. He lied and committed fraud upon the American People. He told us that Iraq had WMD in its possession. Many soldiers lost their lives and many more were intentionally place in harms way for a war that should have never been.
Where is your voice regarding this?
I concur that the “race card” is “used” for political purposes but racism does in fact exist in America. Why is it that most of Congress are middle age white men? Are they the only intellects in our country? If they are intellects, how did we get in the mess we are presently in…meaning…a bankrupt country?
You can read more on my blog at thehonestyproject365.blogspot.com.
Have a great day.
Bernard, greatly enjoy your writings, this is one of your best, very well written and very true.
Thank you.
If you start (or are able) to read the news, instead of posting STUPID comments, your questions would be answered.
I am wondering why it is the IRS goes after the Terminator for 75k yet Rangel somehow forgot over 500k ??? among many other things…. what’s up with that???
I am so glad that Nancy and Obiewan have really cleaned up the swamp of corruption like they promised… yep I do remember that promise…
I guess they haven’t got around to it, if they had the vote on the health care reform bill would have been like 10 nays – 9 yea as all the rest would be in jail or unemployed…..where they belong.
The black caucus does not allow members to join if the are WHITE. The black caucus is a government sponsored group. The black caucus promotes racism. Sure, there are racist whites too. But we, all of us, are NOT supposed to be racist. If I make a racist slur, that is WRONG. If a black person makes a racist slur, that is equally WRONG. I cannot, by conscience or by law, create an organization that is goverment sponsored that does not allow people that are black. Nor should black people be allowed to create a government sponsored group that does not allow white people (or asian people etc) to join.
NONE of us are supposed to be racist. That goes for white people and black people. It is really that simple.
The black caucus perpetuates and promotes racism. And they are doing it using our highest government offices and tax payer money.