Cleaver: If Obama wasn't president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’
By Alicia M. Cohn - 09/18/11 03:48 PM ET
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."
CBC members have expressed concern in recent months as the unemployment rate has continued to rise amongst African-Americans, pushing for Obama to do more to address the needs of vulnerable communities.
"We’re supportive of the president, but we getting tired, y’all,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said in August. “We want to give [Obama] every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is."
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 ." Another member, Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), called the Tea Party “the real enemy” seeking to hold Congress “hostage.”
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), the only Republican member of the CBC and also a member of the Tea Party Caucus, objected to hostile language used by members targeting the Tea Party movement and threatened to leave the caucus unless Cleaver condemned remarks made by other members. West singled out comments from Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), the CBC’s whip, who said that Tea Party-affiliated members of Congress see African-Americans as "second-class citizens" and would be happy to see them "hanging from a tree."
Cleaver persuaded West to remain a member of the caucus, with West indicating later that one reason he decided to stay was that the CBC membership needed a conservative presence.
“I will not be resigning from the Congressional Black Caucus,” West wrote on his Facebook following a meeting with Cleaver at the beginning of September. “Cowards run from challenges, while warriors run to the sound of battle.”
According to West, he is working with Cleaver to produce a plan to confront the rate for unemployment amongst African-Americans, which at 16.7 percent is nearly double the rate nationwide.
Cleaver acknowledged that some of the things members of his caucus say might not be in the best interests of the “aggressive agenda” he said he is seeking to develop as chairman.
“Maxine Waters represents central Los Angeles first and she has to represent her cons uents first and she's going to say things in order to represent them,” he said.
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"We don’t know what the strategy is"
think it's bad now? wait til the Repugs get in power again, to see what bad really is.
What do the black Congressmen want Barry to do? or any President? the finance sector has shut down credit, the UCA is exporting the jobs, the UCA is buying from abroad rather than building, China is undervaluing their currency by 30%.
What do they want Barry to do about all that?
Yeah, they wouldn't be marching.
Attention-getting hyperbole. Sure did work on folks around here.
Even govt-hating TX red-staters expect Barry (aka the hated govt) to do something about jobs:
TX-Obama Job Approval: 40% Approve, 55% Disapprove (PPP 9/15-18)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_972225.html
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aka "We (have been dictated to) hate govt, but we ove govt to bail our jobless asses out"
Good news the Dems have successfully brainwashed black people into putting rahrah political party above race once again. You (D) suck at almost everything, but in this area you are most successful
Just how high should people place their own race?Good news the Dems have successfully brainwashed black people into putting rahrah political party above race once again. You (D) suck at almost everything, but in this area you are most successful
Progressives kicking some police goon ass!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44599120
Ever wonder why tea baggers don't go after/demonstrate against the banks and Wall st?
Heavily covered by all the corporate media!
all these threads by wingnuts sure have underlying themes of racism, if not class warfare..same goes for most wingnut radio...it shocks me what people say on radio today...stuff like what used to be reserved for "scotch with the men" or a klan meeting..in the olden days is now mainstream...
Class warfare and racism?
Have you been listening to any Democrats? The Congressional Black Caucus suggested if Obama weren't black they'd be marching on the White House. That's racism.
Obama blaming the rich for not being able to stem the economic bleeding. That's class warfare.
The congressional black caucus can talk all they want, or not, depending on your source, but there history is they've never walked on Washington, so why should they start now with Obama?
Asking that the rich paying their fare share is not class warfare...Obama blaming the rich for not being able to stem the economic bleeding. That's class warfare.
What is their fair share, Nbadan?
As has been pointed out, those making over a million already have, on average, 29% of their income confiscated. Everyone else is contributing 15% or less -- all the way down to zero for 46% of the populations.
What's fair. Give us a number so we can finally know at what point they'll be told they're contributing their fair share.
Are the 46% not paying taxes, paying their fair share?
I don't speak for the CBC; you'd have to ask their Chairman why he said what he said.
Black caucus head treads line between criticizing, supporting Obama
"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 said.
They would probably be marching on the White House...again, did they walk to the WH under Bush? no...Clinton? no....Bush39...no.....ever? no....
...it must be a metaphor...
You're right, a metaphor to describe their own racism. In other words, we're not made at Obama because he's black.
Are you mad at Obama because he's black?
....if it's possible to be a racist by not being racist, I guess your right...
Those CBC guy better not march in "white face", it's illegal in NYC:
" Amid accusations of excessive police force, there was also the question of what, exactly, the protesters were being arrested for. Turns out, there's a 150-year-old New York City law that bans "masked gatherings." Five of the people arrested have been issued a violation for wearing masks
....
The anti-mask law goes back to 1845, when tenant farmers used disguises (dressing up like Indians) to attack law enforcement officials, apparently. In 1965 the law was updated to prevent masked gatherings of two or more people, except in the case of masquerade parties. Whew. "
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews...aring_charges/
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