Congressional Black Caucus Chair: We‘d ’Be Marching on the White House’ if Not For Obama
- Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:44pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Congressional Black Caucus Chair Emanuel Cleaver said if it weren’t for President Barack Obama, members of his caucus would be “marching on the White House” in anger over the high unemployment rate for black Americans, but don‘t want to do anything that would empower Obama’s detractors.
“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,” the Missouri Democrat told McClatchy Newspapers in an interview 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.”
McClatchy reported:
Indeed, when lawmakers swarmed around Obama as he was leaving the House of Representatives chamber following his recent speech on jobs, caucus members were in the crush, eager for a handshake, a pat on the shoulder or an autograph.
“This is an unprecedented circumstance where an African-American president who is an iconic, heroic figure enjoys a status with African-Americans that no one since Martin Luther King has enjoyed,” said former congressman Artur Davis of Alabama, who was a member of the black caucus until leaving office a year ago.
Certain members of the caucus have attracted controversy in recent weeks — in August, Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) said members of the Tea Party would like to see blacks “hanging on a tree,” the same month Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said the Tea Party could “go straight to hell.”
Cleaver himself told the National Journal earlier this week, “I am convinced, irreversibly, that the lack of civility is causing most of the problems we have in our government” — one month after criticizing the August debt deal as “a sugar-coated Satan sandwich.”
“It’s tough,” Cleaver said. “I’m chairing a group of people who are former mayors and state senators and judges. I’m trying to develop a very aggressive agenda. But Maxine Waters represents central Los Angeles first and she has to represent her constituents first and she’s going to say things in order to represent them.”
Still, Waters has not entirely held back her criticism of Obama: She expressed her disappointment when he did not visit any black communities during his bus tour in August, and at the same time scolded a crowd for not putting pressure on him because they “love” him.
“It’s not personal,” Cleaver said. “They’re attacking his policies, or lack thereof, with regard to this gigantic unemployment problem among African-Americans. If we can’t criticize a black president, then it’s all over.”
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Comments (271)
geonj
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:08pmthe CBC is a racist organization and has no place in Congress unless a white supremist caucus is represented there as well.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 11:21pmIt IS a racist organization .. I was sooo disappointed when Allen West (R-FL) joined .. he REALLY needs to re-think belonging to a RACIST ORGANIZATION!
TEA!
Report Post »IntegrityFirst08
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 11:48pmI wouldnt agree with a white party nor do i agree with the black caucus party. But you have to admit, “….the ends must justify the means”. I have heard this somewhere………hmmmm
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 12:25amIt is a racist black supremacist group that wields racism like a weapon and it needs to be abolished for the good of all Americans of every race.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 1:49amSo the only reason they wont march is because he’s black.
And they call the Tea Party racists.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 3:14amThose people deserve the plantation. If they are so stupid as to what obama is, they deserve each other.
Nick84
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 4:01amWow… Even with how bad comments on here usually are, I‘m still surprised no one has spoke out against Edct’s language.
Report Post »DanielBurke
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 6:31amAmen! You are 100% correct.
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 6:48amThere is no shame among any of these people, yes I said you people. Go into your neighborhoods and fix your problem. Stop blaming whitey, we are not raising your kids.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 6:54am@Nick84- If you’re referring to the word“nig” in Edcts’ post, I see no reason to chastise him . As long as black trash rep“artists” are given a pass, why should anyone be condemned. Unless , of course, you hold white people to a higher standard, and if you do, why? Pres. Bush called that “The soft bigotry of low expectations”. EVERYONE must be held to the same standard. The left repeatedly gives blacks a pass on every offense no matter how egregious, from the black flash mob attacks to their filthy language. If we’re ever going to have a “social contract” we must all be expected to obey the rules.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:31amSo, let me get this straight. They know unemployment that isn’t addressed by the government is a direct reflection on the President, and yet, because the President happens to be part black, they’re going to give him a pass? Is this admitting that because he’s part black, he’s too stupid to know how to fix it?
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:36amOK… sooo … because Obama is black they won’t protest Obama and his failed policy or his lack of leadership..
and out of the other side of his mouth he says this:
“It’s not personal,” Cleaver said. “They’re attacking his policies, or lack thereof, with regard to this gigantic unemployment problem among African-Americans. If we can’t criticize a black president, then it’s all over.”
OK?
That poor disillusioned man… and it has NOTHING to do with a lack of “civility”
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:53amPeople only hate Obama’s white half, we love his black half. Why did Obama have to be half white?
Report Post »ONE PIECE
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:55amIf you look at his stance & voting record, that you’ll see that he is doing what he said that he was going to do. That is to go in there & get as much info on them & what they’re planning on doing. I believe that he is planning something big. Can not wait!!
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:22amSounds like an OPEN ADMISSION of blatant racism from Emanuel Cleaver.
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:01amAgree that CBC is a racist organization. But one thing is wrong….Tea Party does not hate Obama, we just do not agree with his policies and beliefs! Who lives in Love, Peace and Joy and who lives in HATE?
Report Post »tyorrick64
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:45amThe CBC is a joke, i would like to heir one of them explain this little fact of the past.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has falsely accused the Tea Party of having ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Speaking at the NAACP convention, she said: “All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear Tea Party clothing.”
Now is the time to speak some Truth to Power.
It would have been far more truthful for the congresswoman to have admitted the fact that all those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them to wear Democratic Party clothing. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democratic Party. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan murdered thousands of Republicans — African-American and white – in the years following the Civil War. Yes, the Republican Party and a Republican President, Ulysses Grant, destroyed the KKK with their Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
How did the Ku Klux Klan re-emerge in the 20th century? For that, the Democratic Party is to blame.
It was a racist Democrat President, Woodrow Wilson, who premiered Birth of a Nation in the White House. That racist movie was based on a racist book written by one of Wilson’s racist friends from college. In 1915, the movie spawned the modern-day Klan, with its burning crosses and white sheets.
Inspired by the movie, some Georgia Democrats revived the Klan. Soon, the Ku Klux Klan again became a powerful force within the Democratic Party. The KKK so dominated the 1924 Democratic Conventio
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:27amcongressionalblackcaucus@mail.house.gov
Let them know that they are being racist
Report Post »robert
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 12:22pm“Congressional Black Caucus Chair: We‘d ’Be Marching on the White House’ if Not For Obama”
In other words, he‘s telling us blacks would riot if a brother wasn’t in charge, so we had better vote for him in the next election or face an insurgency.
Personally, I hope Obama is defeated soundly in a landslide. I hate to see my tens of thousands of rounds of ammo just laying around unused.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:51pmExactly last time I checked congress is suposed the represent ALL American’s NOT JUST BLACK AMERICAN.
Report Post »The fact that this group is allowed to existed says all we need to know about how broken the system truely is.
Brizz
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 3:22pm@LORIANN12
So you’re talking about affirmative action?
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 4:04pmWhat a crappy little worlds liberals live in. Instead of just doing and saying what is honest, true and right they have to check the political and racial winds before every action. They are unprincipled demagogues unworthy of any elected office.
Report Post »SpecOpsVet81
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 5:02pmWhere is the AmericanIndian/Irish/English/German/French/Swedish/Dutch/Scottish/Welsh/Italian/Polish-American Congressional Caucus? I feel left out not having a Congressional Caucus to represent me. The Blacks, I will not use the term “African American”, have their own caucus looking out for their people and the rest of us are on our own. I have 5 truely “African American” grandchildren and 2 of them happen to be black. All 5 were born in Africa, 3 to parents of German decent, 2 to parents of Zulu decent. Would the BCC treat all my “African American” grand children the same, until they met them?
Time to leave the color of your skin behind. If you were born in the United States, you’re American. Let’s treat all Americans the same.
Report Post »Nick84
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 1:40amcosette-
Yes, that is the word I am referring to. It is absolutely disgusting for anyone to use that word. Even if he was an extremely racist African American, what happened to not sinking down to his level?
Report Post »shemdiz
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 9:11pmI willing to bet they are more anti Black than anti White.
Report Post »fastgunslinger
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:41pmCBC —- just consider the source
Report Post »randy
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:07pmObama is only half black…….. SO march half way to the White House.
OMG12 = OBAMA MUST GO in 2012
Report Post »meamerican
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:34pmHow Racist – If only he was white then we would do something!
Report Post »IntrepidSI
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:38pm“If it wasn’t for Barrack Obama, we would…………..”
Sounds like a bunch of racists to me. How many of you said “If it wasn’t for George Bush being a white man, why I would got the White house and protest”?
Racists, haters and members of the Re-elect Obama crowd, who should call themselves “The Hemlock Party”, cause if they want to give him a second term, this country is committing economic suicide.
Report Post »swampcooler
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:40pmno he is being half rascist.
Report Post »normbal
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:48pmIt’s like the man said, people generally get the kind of government they deserve.
Report Post »You got what you voted for.
Unfortunately, you gave it to all the REST of us too.
Now it’s up to US to get RID of it next year.
ginger100
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:50pmIf they put in a halfhearted attempt like the day of rage protesters, they could march all the way on the white half of the President.
Report Post »VanZorge
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:06amvery funny… half way to the WH…lol
Report Post »lapua338shooter
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 5:03am@ ChiefGoerge… My concern (and others, I’m sure) is 4 more years and there won’t be an America left. Not the America I grew up in anyway.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:03amRule #1 of the majority of blacks in America- The level of tolerance allowed for poor behavior/performance is in direct proportion to the amount of melanin in the offenders skin.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:38am@IntrepidSI
Actually, they did something like that. During Katrina, it was, If Bush wasn’t a white man, things wouldn’t have been so bad in New Orleans, He just hates black people and didn’t want anything done.
So, I suppose we can start saying, unemployment for black people should be 4%. Barack is half black, and I think he hates being black and is envious of white people.
Report Post »PaulAnn
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:07pmSad isn’t it? If he was not black they would complain about how his policies are hurting other black people. I don’t understand it. That is like me saying I supported W because he was white or I voted for McCain because he was white. They are not representing their constituents at all. This is black on black crime.
Report Post »mils
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:26pmBPOS all of them. If he wasn’t black, a dumb azz stupid reason.
They don‘t’ have America’s well being in mind, they have their boy in mind, don’t want to embarrass “one of their own”..
.let the nation fall apart but save the black boy.
Half black half white…march on half the white house..after all it is a “white” house not a black . house…DUMB BPOS AZZES..SHOWING US WHO THEY REALLY ARE
Report Post »Paydert33
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:47pmI have noticed how the black panthers, the black caucus, the union thugs, of course, al sharpless and all his gang, including jesse jackson, and o-loser, have started big-time with the race-baiting for most of us out here. Like Glenn says……this is exactly what they want. All of them are working very diligently to bait us into some sort of ‘action’. Then messnbc, lean forward, (right, we know what that means), and all the big-time losers, cbs, abc, move-on, etc., etc., will report that the Tea Party brought a twig to some demonstration. They are trying to set us up Big Time. There is only one way all of us can handle this disgusting race baiting….at the voting machine.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:58pmFor this racist reason of them protecting their own is why I believe he will get re-elected. People of all walks of life will feel sorry for him and give him another shot to keep it simple. Women, Whites, Blacks esp, Jews, Latinos and the just plain working poor will vote for him yet again. Its called blind faith in a man whom they believe to be their saviour and the only reason he is having a tough time is because of Whites in the Tea Party, the Christian church and some Jews…..Oh I can’t leave out Texas. Be prepared for four more years of drudgery with this man in office. America will never be the same when this man gets through with it if we even get that satisfaction of ever seeing him go home. The White House just might be his final destination.
Report Post »exring
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 12:11pmIt appears more and more obvious that Obama is a puppet controlled by George S. One of the main indicators is that without a teleprompter he is lost and often goes way off the reservation.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:06pmPoetic justice
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 11:38pmI agree! Until they can see past the color of his skin and look at his policies that are hurting them more than other groups, they deserve what they elected and are still supporting.
Report Post »Hiswill
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:04pmWe don’t hate Obama, we just hate his policies. I don’t care if he is purple, green, or red. He is in WAY over his head. Stop voting in people that speak well, look pretty and have Chicago friends. We need someone that knows what he/she is doing and gets some results.
Report Post »mils
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 11:40pmi would agree with you if Obama did not fully understand how destructive he is to our nation.
Report Post »So,…that means it‘s not just his policies I don’t like ..
Jim in Houston
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:42amHis lips are purple.
Report Post »randy
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:03pmif it weren’t for President Barack Obama, members of his caucus would be “marching on the White House” in anger over the high unemployment rate for black Americans, but don‘t want to do anything that would empower Obama’s detractors.
SOUNDS PRETTY RACIST TO ME
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:02pmThe Criminal Black Caucus wanted enemy-obama in office, and they got him. I wonder if Crook-Cleaver and his thugs have learned anything from the “election” and complete and historic failure of “community organizer” B. Hussein’O?
Report Post »right
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:01pmEmanuel Cleaver, what a sad excuse of a man. Do what needs to be done. It shouldn’t matter what color his skin is. March! We can’t wait to see the people that show up for that event.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:01pmSo now we know that race comes before all else, that the CBC has lower expectations for a black president than they have for one who is not black, that a black president is exempt from their wrath based solely on his color. We now see who the real racists are, that the CBC doesn’t want equality for blacks, they want exemptions for failure for blacks.
Report Post »sherwood244
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:01pmNice to see Richard Pryor’s hair has grown back…
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:00pmMaybe a little racist? This is so funny it’s beyond belief. You would think his skin is the same color as a stop sign!! Just because he’s black…Think of how the black man is putting down the black man now!! Idiots!
Report Post »Minefield
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:59pmMarch…march…march
I thought it was Sept.
Racialism !
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:09pmWhen is the congressional black caucus going to get angry about the following, and speak up.
-blacks on average (over the past 20 years) rape 15,000 to 30,000 white women a year, where less than 15 black woman are raped by white men per year
-blacks make up 12 percent of the population, but commit 50% of murders, 73% of armed robbereis, and 64 % of rapes
-7 in 10 black babies are born to single parent families
-black males make up less than 5% of total college population, but over 40% of prison population
If they want to speak up, why not talk about these facts, or fact like the ammount of black babies aborted, or the percentage of abused children that are black, or the rate in which black children fall behind in math and reading. When will they talk about violent rap music, the gangster image popularised by pro sports……. Oh year, that would be considered coming off the democrat plantation, and the dems do not allow such talk. Keep talking the party line, keep pimping your own people.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:58pmBarry doesn’t identify with black Americans and could care less about them,he’s patterned his whole life after his father.Barrys father was an anti-colonialist just like Barry,you’ll recall Barry returned the bust of Churchill to the U.K.
Report Post »No Barry identifies with his uber rich progressive friends,the type that pay for college for minorities to make themselves feel less guilty about their wealth.The progressives will consume their own,just look at them attacking the Marxist in chief for not being radical enough,these people are insane and will gladly spend us into oblivion.
Dismayed Veteran
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:18amI agree with you 100%. Obama does not have his roots in the American Black experience that has given us the Balck Panthers (old and new), the BCC, the NAACP, affirmative action, and riots. His roots are in Africa. His only racial connection with America is through a white mother and a radical spouse (who is not ghetto black)
Black Americans need to understand that he doesn’t care about them except for their vote and the leverage of racial hate.
My parents raised me not to be a racist. Every person was judged on their character. The BCC wants me to be a racist but I refuse. Their message is ;poison to the black community/
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:58pmCleaver’s remarks should remove any doubt anyone may have about who are the true racists in this country.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 11:46pmWonder how long it is going to take for them to wake up to the poison they have been fed for years by the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party who has also wanted them to be subservient, and less educated to keep them useful. I swear it is nearly like getting them hooked on drugs so they would need the Dems to feed their habit!!
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:11am@vennoye, I would add to that that CBC is completely complicit with in this administrations policies because they want, no, they NEED for the black communities to rise up in their discontent. They have been out there for the lat 2 months agitating the communities with things we never thought we could hear coming out of any rational persons mouth, much less congresses. They won’t march on him not because of his race, but because they need it to become worse and create the dividing line deeper. I contend that this is well orchestrated and sadly, these evil world-power freaks are going to make it much worse for these master craving, dependent communities so they are ready to strike out when those behind the curtain are ready to strike out at America.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:57pmWhy does Barry hate Black’s ?? Why do Black’s love Barry???
And they call White’s RACISTS???
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:57pmSo… I guess if your the right “color” they will cut you some slack…Effing hypocrites
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:20pmBut of course Devil Dog. Everyone knows that blacks are held to a lower standard for the same pay.
Report Post »right
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:55pmOh no, can‘t say bad things because he’s black.
Report Post »Can‘t march on the WH because he’s balck.
Can‘t get jobs because we’re black.
What are we going to do?
Welfare?
Iam4EnoughALREADY
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:54pmIronic- So you don’t want to make a March on the White house because of the Color of his skin…..hmmm….didn’t a famous man say, ” A man should be judged by the content of his character and NOT the color of his skin!” huh-
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:53pmNothing racist there – would against Clinton, not against Obama – OK
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:53pmI say march on the White House, Racist Cleaver. Failed policies are failed policies regardless of skin color.
Report Post »one years food ration like glenn says
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:52pmWhatever , just don’t accuse anyone of spitting on you without a tape this time. you dope.. BTW obama doesn‘t address black unemployment because he’s a racist.. He only stands up for his white side…
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:52pm“If we can’t criticize a black president, then it’s all over.” Stop being one of the people and groups who are helping it be over. Criticize whomever needs criticized, offer a viable solution, and be a part of the solution.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:51pmWe just need to get this misplaced manchild out of office and start cleaning up the place. We have to beat libs and Democrats; no comprise–beat them, vote them out, educate the ignorant. No more time to waste. Once we get this across to more folks, we will be climbing the mountain, not falling down it.
Report Post »HD Veteran
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:51pmSo MANY calls for violence from the LEFT.
Report Post »Nathan
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 9:39pmThey call for violence over, and over again, hoping that someone else will commit it first. If the left strikes first, then their gameplan will be damaged.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:50pmHey Mr Cleaver, you guys elected Mr Obama and he has had his chance over the last three years to get the changes made. Guess what then, you elected the socialist progressive there right now in the White House…accept it and live with it or help get him out of office in 2012.
STOP THE RACE BAITING.
Report Post »HD Veteran
Posted on September 18, 2011 at 8:51pmThey can’t, they ain’t got no other game.
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