Affirmative Action in Congress

John McWhorter asks the question; are CBC members uniquely corrupt.........

Not so long ago, all eight of the members of Congress being investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics were black. Now, two powerful black members of the Congressional Black Caucus are on the griddle. There are two entirely appropriate responses.

One of them is to wonder if there is something racial going on. Yes, that is reasonable. Dismissals of this line of reasoning as mere “crying racism” are, in this case, hasty. Bloggers blithely listing white people who have fallen into the OCE’s line of sight as disproof of the racism charge are missing the point. The issue—so often missed in discussions of race but usually by those crying wolf, not their detractors—is proportion. All eight? Two leading black legislators in two weeks? One is not a race-baiter to ask questions.

Then, the other entirely appropriate response is to ask another question: is there some trait local to the Congressional Black Caucus that makes its members especially likely to commit improprieties of the kind under concern?

Let me offer this analysis.

First, many of these minority members of congress where elected through the legalized gerrymandering of the Voting Rights Act, virtually guaranteeing a minority and a democrat to office.

Second, as a result of #1, many of them rise to power through corrupt, back door, city politics which get's little attention from the feds.

Third, because these members are guaranteed a winning election, they receive little to no vetting from republican opponents during the election process. You don't think a healthy campaign wouldn't have shown Rangel sleeping on his Dominican spread? Or Maxine throwing some favors to her husband?

Fourth, because your average media a-hole doesn't want to be cast as a racist, they do no vetting of these people. In addition, many media members agree with the politics of these pols, so their coverage will be more than sympathetic. Just read some of the coverage on Journolist.

So now we're surprised when many of these politicians act as if they are entitled to all the amenities of being a king or queen?

This is affirmative action at it's worst. It totally ushers black politicians to the front of the line; never really checking them out to make sure they don't have any baggage. Then we act surprised when there is.

This is why I've believed the liberal media do liberal politics and politicians no favors. If the media were to actually have vetted one B. H. Obama during the campaign of 2008, the public would have found out that he was nothing more than a race baiting, corrupt Chicagoan.

I also believe it was why so called "conservative" dorks like Noonan, Parker, Frum, and Brooks were so willing to cut this guy a break. They didn't want their friends at the next wine and cheese party in upper Manhattan to think of them as racist, so they softballed the dude. They turned a blind eye to all the evidence that this guy was at best a socialist and may, in fact, be a communist........ an incompetent one at that.

As a result, his main accomplishment as president will be to push the historic ranking on Jimmy Carter to number 42 of the best presidents of all time and set back the liberal cause for generations.


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