Congressional Black Caucus remains silent on welcoming Black Republicans

The CBC is about as relevant an organization as the NAACP is when it comes to looking out for the interests of all African Americans.

Notice that I used the word “all” because the only types of Black people the CBC cares about are Black liberals who believe in big government.

They expect all Black people, and Latinos. to think the same and especially vote the same way.

The Daily Caller reports that three black Republican House candidates are in a position to possibly join the 2011 congressional freshman class, but the official spokesman for the Congressional Black Caucus refused to say Monday whether they will be invited to join the traditionally Democratic group.

“It’s an issue that will be addressed when it’s relevant to be addressed,” said CBC spokesman J. Jioni Palmer, who punted to previous statements made about the issue.

Of 14 black Republican candidates this year, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Allen West of Florida and Ryan Frazier of Colorado are in reach of winning their districts. While West and Frazier’s races are considered toss-ups, Scott has a comfortable lead over his Democratic challenger and is widely considered a shoe-in.

While the CBC officially has not been clear about who they will allow in next year, Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, a CBC member and House majority whip, said last month that he would welcome a black Republican.

“If Tim Scott is interested in joining the caucus, he would be welcome,” he said.

But CBC Chairman Barbara Lee implied a few weeks later in an interview with The Economist that black Republicans would be welcomed only if they conform to the group’s liberal guidelines. “The CBC has an agenda,” Lee told The Economist. “Our agenda is about lifting people out of poverty, providing middle-class tax cuts, supporting climate-change legislation. Do [incoming black Republicans] embrace this agenda?”

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She means lifting people out of poverty with the help of mother government and the Democrat Party. African Americans need to go to the government to get fish because Democrats believe Black folks can’t possibly learn how to fish for themselves.

This is the reason Liberals hate Black conservatives because they don’t want other Blacks to become self reliant and put them out of business.

Liberals preach a never ending sermon of dependency masked by pretty sounding words like “empowerment”, “multiculturalism” and “social justice”.

It all sounds good to the undereducated masses that graduate from liberal-controlled schools.

But, it’s all mental slavery just the same.


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Congressional Black Caucus Keeps Frustrations with Obama Quiet

What?

Life for members of the CBC is not better with a Black president in office?

How can this be?

Maybe it’s because the Democrat Party really loves Black people’s votes more than they really love Black people in general. Of course that’s not the “template” that Democrats operated under to garner 95% of the Black vote.

I’ve been telling my friends these thing for years, but be that as it may, the mental enslavement of Black to the Democrat party continues.

Hey, CBC you’re lucky not more of your members are not going to jail with their stealing taxpayer money via non-profits.

Talk about being ungrateful.

The Washington Post reports:

A year ago, members of the Congressional Black Caucus openly wept at Barack Obama's inauguration. Slowly, that euphoria has given way to frustration that his administration has not done more for black America. Questions about how to elect him have been replaced by questions about how to prod him.

Black Caucus frustrated but reluctant to say so
For many, it is the surprise of a political lifetime that they find themselves wrestling with such quandaries.

Alternately puzzled and disgruntled, CBC members say key people in the Obama administration have taken them for granted, in the belief that black members of Congress have no stomach for a fight with the country's first black president.

"We concluded they were just kind of listening to us and that then they would go back [to their offices] and conclude that we would do nothing," Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.), the vice chairman of the CBC, said of one dispute. "Because they had concluded there's a black president in the White House and that, to some degree, the Black Caucus, you know, was constrained in expressing its desires. After a while, we said, 'Hey, we see what's going on and it's nothing.' "
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What?

Democrats taking Black folk for granted?

Impossible!

Via Washington Post

Via Memeorandum

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Elsie L. Scott of Congressional Black Caucus Non Profit, Selling Access to Corporate Lobbyists

So much for bringing change to Washington.



President Obama campaigned hard against the influence of special interests groups that use lobbyists to get “access” in Washington.

But, things haven’t changed a bit in D.C. especially when it comes to the CBC and the way they use “non-profits” such as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) to collect funds from much hated corporate America.

I mean, at least hated publicly to rake in the votes from Black America. But in the privacy of convention halls, corporate boardrooms and golf courses, it’s all love and kisses with a cashier’s check.

According the New York Times:
Elsie L. Scott, chief executive of the CBCF, acknowledged that the companies want to influence members.
In fact, the fund-raising brochures make clear that the bigger the donation, the greater the access, like a private reception that includes members of Congress for those who give more than $100,000.

“They are trying to get the attention of the C.B.C. members,” Ms. Scott said. “And I don’t think there is anything wrong with that. They’re in business, and they want to deal with people who have influence and power.

Black people gamble. Black people smoke. Black people drink,” she said in an interview. “And so if these companies want to take some of the money they’ve earned off of our people and give it to us to support good causes, then we take it.”

I guess she means good causes like paying of the mortgage of the CBC headquarters.

Via New York Times

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