CBC’s Cleaver Admits: If Obama Wasn’t President, Black Caucus ‘Would Be Marching on the White House’
What’s the most obvious difference between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama?
Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
“If [former President] Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House,” Cleaver told “The Miami Herald” in comments published Sunday. “There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.”
Rather than march on the man most responsible for the extreme unemployment among Black Americans, the CBC made the strategic decision to target someone else.
Rather than targeting Obama’s leadership, many CBC members aimed their fire at the Tea Party movement over the summer’s congressional recess. Waters said in a public meeting in her district that the Tea Party “can go straight to hell.” Another member, Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), called the Tea Party “the real enemy” seeking to hold Congress “hostage.”
How are both of the CBC’s decisions here — to decide not to protest Obama, and then to target the Tea Party for a hate campaign — not explicitly racist? It’s pretty obvious that Cleaver et al aren’t working for a world in which politicians are judged by their character or their actions, but by the color of their skin.
If Martin Luther King was serious about the ‘content of character vs. color of skin’ mantra then he would be horribly disappointed in how the equal rights movement turned out, especially after watching this man in office.
You’ve seen my comments about Dr. King, haven’t you?
I thought he was a phony.
Love and Kisses,
Jackie
I guess Obama’s position is that the CBC should just sit quietly in the back of the bus…and be happy that they have a black president.
But, he’s right, if this was anyone else, there would be protests all over the place. It’s just sad that the Congressional Black Caucus puts the needs of one man ahead of their constituents. They used to say George Bush didn’t care about black people, but it’s actually Obama who doesnt care.
Has everyone forgotten my inadvertant open mic comment about Obama back in’08? I offered to “cut his nuts off” for talking down to black people.
We tolerate this half white, half African snob, he ain’t really one of us, he was just more electable because we knew how stupidly many guilt-ridden whites think and vote.
It’s impossible to get anywhere with a black leftist. If you need proof of that, ask a black lefty this question: Affirmative Action programs discriminate on the basis of race, so how are Affirmative Action programs not racist? Be prepared to run.
Good to see it in print but didn’t we know this already?