Jack & Jill Politics

And, as for Rep. Kilpatrick talking about ‘what about the Hispanics’…

You don’t worry about the HISPANICS, Rep. Kilpatrick. They’ve already got a network that will tackle THEIR issues – UNIVISION.

Like any Hispanics are going to tune into a debate sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus, looking for their issues to be discussed.

Puleeze.

They KILL me with this mess. You’re the Congressional BLACK Caucus, and these debates are supposed to be about concerns of the BLACK community. But, of course, getting into bed with the White Citizens Council sort of defeats that purpose.

And, considering what happened at the LAST farce you had with the WCCNetwork, just exactly WHY are folks supposed to trust that this time will be any different?

@rikyrah: Ouch. Everybody is hating on Latinos lately.

I WOULD tune into a debate sponsored by CBC to hear about issues of poverty, racial discrimination, and educational inequality.

And thanks for the Univision shout-out. That’s pretty deep.

@rikyrah: Ouch. Everybody is hating on Latinos lately.

I am NOT hating on Latinos. But, this goes back to the issue that I brought up below of the CBC and their silence on the effects upon the Black community from illegal immigration.

We’re the ONLY folks that seem to go out of our way to INCLUDE everyone else in things that are SUPPOSED to be focused on the Black community.

THAT is supposed to be the point of these debates – to get issues – PERTINENT TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY – discussed.

But, that is IMPOSSIBLE when the ones doing the questioning, is a network that, FROM DAY ONE, has shown nothing but CONTEMPT, DISREGARD AND DISRESPECT towards the Black community.

And, the CBC knows it.

YET, they get in bed with them?

HELL NO.

I WOULD tune into a debate sponsored by CBC to hear about issues of poverty, racial discrimination, and educational inequality.

But, you aren’t the target audience. African-American are , or dare I say, SHOULD BE.

And thanks for the Univision shout-out. That’s pretty deep.

I’m not hating. I have no qualms with Univision holding their own debate. And, I know, for damn sure, that they will be on point, for THEIR consituency-Latinos.
Nothing wrong with that.

It’s the lack of focus of vision from the CBC that bothers me.

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Champions Fox News

By

Greg Fuller

In the view of many, mine included , the Black Community consist of people with diverse viewpoints and interest , but it is also true that many in the Black community understand that we still have an common interest in maintaining , and expanding to those still left out of ,the political and economic gains of the past 40 years . Moreover, the Black Community common interest still has as goals : solidifying our position in new arenas we now find ourselves , and breaking down the barriers to arenas we are still excluded from . The CBC was founded in recognition of and to further these goals.

If one analyzes the struggle for Blacks to attain parity in this society , there is no doubt that ,since 1964 and to this very day , the GOP has opposed those goals in action if not in principle . Moreover , it is a matter of fact and beyond dispute, that Fox News Network is one of the GOP’s most pronounced and effective tools in actively opposing the goals many in the Black Community are unified on . That said, the CBC needs to explain it self: Why is the CBC cooperating with Fox News on any level?

In General, Fox News is a bastion of political operatives who champion views and agendas that are an anathema to the interest of the majority of Black people in particular and the middleclass in general .

At the highest political levels in America, powerful interest function within a framework of having no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interest . One of the few exceptions to this rule has been in the area of racial politics. Since at least 1964 when Barry Goldwater opposed civil rights as part of his presidential campaign , the GOP has employed racial politics without reservation or regret . To further the larger economic interesting of the Republican Party racial politics has been a central organizing strategy ; it is used by preying on America’s history of racial division to keep a sizable segment of the White population voting and supporting the GOP. Now that racial politics in its unvarnished form is considered unacceptable and bad for business by the large commercial interest who are political contributors , Gay marriage and abortion are now used more prominently than racial politics ,but racial politics is still very much with us as it has for all of this Nation’s history . This history being to exhaustive to recount here, I’ll limit my examples to just a few anecdotes that I vividly recall.

During the 1968 Presidential Campaign, Richard Nixon co-opted George Wallace’s law and order politics (anti-civil rights) and labeled it his southern strategy. Nixon used lingering White resentment over the passages of voting rights and civil rights laws to bring voters with those resentments into the GOP .The Southern Strategy has been a touchstone of GOP politics ever since, giving rise to the present day Red State , Blue State dichotomy . Some will I’m sure ,try to hoodwink their present day followers’ into thinking Red and Blue is about other things but that is revisionist history by any factual standard .

Since Nixon, the southern strategy playbook has included ,to cite just a few examples :

Roland Reagan’s 1980 Philadelphia Mississippi(the site of KKK murders of Civil Rights Workers ) “ State’s Rights Speech “, George Bush Senior’s operative Lee Atwater’s (Carl Rove’s patron saint ) use of the Willie Horton ad’s to inject race into the 1988 Presidential Campaign , in 1990 Senator Jessie Helms used ads that suggested that Blacks where displacing Whites from jobs they should have gotten but did not due to Affirmative Action . Affirmative Action is typically mischaracterized and used by the GOP as a proxy for race as are Welfare Recipients despite facts that refute the racial stereotypes of Welfare Queens and etc. Since 2000, the George W. Bush administration attacked Affirmative Action as one of its first initiatives. Moreover, Bush’s Department of Justice now operates under the philosophy that that pursuing religious discrimination is a higher priority than racial injustice . And let us not forget Other Bush family favors, like Jeb Bush’s secretive removal of Blacks from Florida’s voter rolls and similar vote suppression efforts by the GOP in Ohio and elsewhere .

For a long time the GOP has sought out “everything is cool” Blacks ,for appointed and elected positions, who seemed to represent the extreme minority of Blacks who feel our quest for full inclusion in American society has been achieved , and that race is now a hindrance no greater than having red hair or big feet . Apparently hiring even “everything is cool Blacks “ is no longer good enough . Breathtaking in its raw arrogance and potential for malevolence, we now find out that in the George W Bush administration , Blacks have been routinely ruled out as hires for the position of attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division .

And should the current members of the CBC think the lack of Black attorney hires in Civil Rights is an anomaly, and that the GOP age of racial politics is over , they should recall the GOP’s treatment of their former member Harold Ford during his Senatorial bid , when the “Call me Harold “ ad was used to exploit any anti-miscegenation campaign contributors or voters in the Tennessee electorate .

So again I repeat : Why is the CBC cooperating with Fox News on any level ? Is it that they think Fox News is no longer an appendage of the GOP ? Or do they think an agreement with FOX reduces Fox’s ability to cut, paste and frame the content or distort it for later use ? Why would any credible Democratic Candidate for President risk such distortion, given Fox’s record of extreme bias.

I have long thought Democrats in general demonstrate strategic idiocy by appearing on the Fox News Channel. Needless to say, that makes any CBC and Fox News cooperation highly suspect both strategically and as a matter of principle .

Comments and feedback are welcomed .

Greg

Greg,

You need to repeat this to the CBC members.

That is, if they would get their heads out of Rupert Murdoch’s ass long enough to listen.

And he probably bought off Thompson and Kilpatrick for the equivalent of what “Dollar Bill” Jefferson kept in his freezer. I am still frosted by the fact that SOB got a standing ovation from CBC members who know he’s a crook, but sling righteous sistas like Cynthia McKinney under the bus at the ordering of Nancy Pelosi.

The CBC is beyond irrelevant. They are DOA and just waiting for someone to call the time of death.