Congressional Black Caucus Declares War on Tea Party
posted at 12:09 pm on August 30, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
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The Blaze has posted a video montage of townhalls and job fairs held by the Congressional Black Congress Caucus in August that is required viewing. In it, sitting members of the U.S. Congress can be heard and seen inciting violence among their constituents with baseless threats of black lynchings, a return to Jim Crow, and similarly incendiary language.
The video requires little introduction, though one remark is worth singling out. It is a question posed by Rep. Al Green approximately three minutes in when he asks his audience, “Will we allow a minority voices [sic] to speak for the majority?” Wasn’t the entire raison d’etre for the civil rights movement to give the minority an equal voice in the public square and in government? Is it not at least mildly ironic to hear a member of the minority that spearheaded that movement now call for the silencing of another “minority”?
It appears that these lawmakers understand the actual threat the Tea Party poses—namely, a retrenching of the government handouts that help these politicians win reelection by keeping their constituents down.
Will the president call on his colleagues in the legislature to tone down their inflammatory rhetoric? Somehow, I’m not all that optimistic.
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You mean The Congressional Black Caucus, right?.
OhioCoastie on August 30, 2011 at 12:35 PM
As long as nobody puts a target or bulls eye-resembling symbol on any maps, it’s all good.
Right Barry?
Brian1972 on August 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM
Somehow I can not get my head around bho or holder trying to stop this from the cbc! This whole thing makes me sick. There is no need for those of a darker shade of skin to think us of a lighter shade want to do them harm. I guess usning race is all these people have left?
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letget on August 30, 2011 at 1:19 PM
letget 1:19 s/b using
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letget on August 30, 2011 at 1:20 PM
Do indeed. Thank you for the catch.
Howard Portnoy on August 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM
Ummm, no. It was to give THEIR minority ONLY an equal voice in the public square and in government… and to get a bunch of entitlements… for THEIR minority only.
44Magnum on August 30, 2011 at 1:51 PM
Forgot to add.. and no other minority is entitled.
44Magnum on August 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM
All coordinated from and by the White House. Trust.
SouthernGent on August 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM
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YehuditTX on August 30, 2011 at 9:54 PM
So…
…if the Tea Party is “all white” as the congressional black caucus says….and they’re declaring war on it…
…aren’t they declaring a race war? Against white people.
What a bunch of racists.
Vegi on August 30, 2011 at 11:24 PM
Ahhhhh, the thick, choking irony of the Jim Crow Solid South Democrats.
Every time I see a vintage photo of those stupid, white, ignorant Klansmen, I always chuckle to myself. Ain’t a Republican hiding behind any of those sheets . . .
BigAlSouth on August 31, 2011 at 5:19 AM