Did you get this off MSN?

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Because for 400 years y’all have refused to let us be ‘just Americans’.

You refused to compensate us for the 246 years of chattel slavery. Every time we suceesfully built up our own neighborhoods, towns, institutions and economies you started race riots on false pretexts and swooped in order to burn those very neighborhoods down.

You organized gangs of white hooded terrorists to invade our neighborhoods and homes and engage in an orgy of lawlessness, rape and murder designed to intimidate, brutalize and ‘keep the Blacks down’.

You lynched us by the thousands and called it ‘entertainment’. You discriminated against us, jacked with our voting rights and refused to let us participate in the making the laws that affect us even though it stated in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments of the Constitution that you couldn’t do that to fellow American citizens.

You have called us ’stupid and ignorant’ when it is my people who have created many of the inventions, medical procedures, scientific advances and processes that have enriched this country and improved life for all of us.

You have called us ‘lazy’ when it is our labor that built Washington D.C, railroads and much of this country’s infrastracture.

You have mocked our beauty and called us ‘ugly’ even as your women rush to spend thousands of dollars to surgically acquire the features that African-American women possess from birth.

You have called us ‘Unamerican’ even though we have fought and shed our blood in EVERY war this country has been involved in and come home from battle to have the rights and freedoms we fought to extend overseas to others denied to us on American shores.

You have repeatedly denigrated and disrespected my people and my culture even as you secretly admire our creativity and seek to emulate it.

You have never apologized for the centuries of pain and suffering that you have inflicted upon my people, but have the nerve to tell me to ‘get over it’. Why can’t you humble yourself to say to my people “i’m sorry?’

Why can’t we be ‘just Americans’? I don’t know. Why don’t you answer your own question for me?

Islam does not equal terrorism anymore than Republican and conservative equals to moral and Christian

Unfortunately some of those white males are clueless to the fact that this is NOT 1907 or 1807. Tancreepo and his ilk need to join the rest of us in the 21st century.

Until this country realizes that we are STILL 142 years later dealing with the toxic waste legacy of slavery and racial prejudiice in this country, all those caucuses will be necessary.

These “congressmen” are not answerable to the American people, just the hyphen-Americans! These are people who give a corrupt thief, William Jefferson, a standing ovation. What do we need to know about this caucus? John Conyers continues to whine about reparations, while he uses his staff for babysitters. Reparations? What do you people think the black caucus is, if not reparations?

T. Moschetti

Excellently written piece!

Forget about Tancredo’s race or affiliation and ask the question: If the CBC can use race as a requirement for admittance, why can they subvert the rules that the rest of our country is compelled to abide by? Why do we feel the need to keep such an organization in such a prominent position if the message is that Congressional Black Democrats do not have to obey the common decency of inclusion? Racism is wrong. Allowing one group to drive an idealogue division through one of the most important institutions in America (the US Congress) is simply reprehensible. Dr. King, as cliche as it sounds, would only have wanted an equal footing and a chance to speak. He did not support the tipping of scales against the white community. When did equality and accountability stop representing the dream of black Americans? Before commenting on whether or not I am the enemy, consider how different the response would be if you knew I was a black registered Democrat. What if I were a conservative white? The issue is the important part, please sift through the canned responses and look at the logic and reality of this situation. God Bless

I guess MLK was full of crap too, huh? Besides, didn’t he also say,

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

My God! Martin Luther King Jr. was a conservative!!!!

I don’t know -you may want to ask them.

And I didn’t say politico.com was “unreliable”. I said it is the only source reporting the story. Without a confirmation from another source, I think their scoop is a rumor.

One source, no confirmation. I sense a rumor and am skeptical

It may be that politico made up the story entirely. This would be pretty serious since they have quotes from Cohen himself, a quote from a member of the CBC himself discussing Cohen’s rejection, as well as another Rep. who tried to join the CBC in a similar situation and was denied membership because “the issue [was] that I was white,” but it seems that the last quote may not have been in relation to this specific instance, but rather his own experience.

Unless politico did entirely fabricate the story (which I obviously can’t rule out), who else do you need confirmation from besides Cohen himself and a member of the organization that rejected him?

I quickly googled your story about Cohen being denied membership in the CBC. The source is politico.com and nobody else has confirmed it. All the other hits i got (basically blogs) repeat the story without checking into it.

One source, no confirmation. I sense a rumor and am skeptical.