Showing posts with label black politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black politics. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Was NAACP leader wrong to insult Senator Tim Scott

Recently the president of the North Carolina NAACP Rev.William Barber made the following comments about Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.

"A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy," Barber said Sunday night, according to The State.

Barber said "the extreme right wing down here (in South Carolina) finds a black guy to be senator and claims he's the first black senator since Reconstruction and then he goes to Washington, D.C., and articulates the agenda of the tea party."

As much as I disagree with Tim Scott politically I thinks it unnecessary to insult him. Especially since he unlike many other black republicans on the national scene avoids making incendiary comments about his own people. I believe we can disagree with being disagreeable. To do so only lowers us to the level of those we claim to be against.

Do you think that Rev. Barber's comments were appropriate?

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Are you aware of the Congressional Black Caucus and what they do?

Recently Marcia Fudge a congresswoman from Ohio opined that African americans don't support the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC ). That got me to wondering how many African Americans know of the Congressional Caucus or what they do. So I ask you are you aware of the CBC?

ABOUT THE CBC:

Since its establishment in 1971, Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have joined together to empower America’s neglected citizens and to address their legislativeconcerns.For more than 40 years, the CBC has consistently been the voice for people of color and vulnerable communities in Congress and has been committed to utilizing the full Constitutional power, statutory authority, and financial resources of the Government of the United States of America to ensure that everyone in the United States has an opportunity to achieve their version of the American Dream.

The legislative agenda of universal empowerment that Members of the Congressional Black Caucus collectively pursue include but are not limited to: the creation of universal access to a world-class education from birth through post secondary level; the creation of universal access to quality, affordable health care and the elimination of racially based health disparities; the creation of universal access to modern technology, capital and full, fairly-compensated employment; the creation and or expansion of U.S. foreign policy initiatives that will contribute to the survival, health, education and general welfare of all peoples of the world in a manner consistent with universal human dignity, tolerance and respect and such other legislative action as a majority of the entire CBC Membership may support.

Visit the CBC website here: CBC