Ethics Rules Are Racist
From The Politico
The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice Department hadn’t asked the committee to stand down.
Not a single white lawmaker is currently the subject of a full-scale ethics committee probe.
The ethics committee declined to respond to questions about the racial disparity, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus are wary of talking about it on the record. But privately, some black members are outraged — and see in the numbers a worrisome trend in the actions of ethics watchdogs on and off Capitol Hill…
African-American politicians have long complained that they’re treated unfairly when ethical issues arise. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are still fuming over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to oust then-Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) from the House Ways and Means Committee in 2006, and some have argued that race plays a role in the ongoing efforts to remove Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) from his chairmanship of that committee.
Last week’s actions by the House ethics committee are sure to add fuel to the fire…
“It is kind of crazy,” said an aide to one senior black Democrat. “How can it be that the ethics committee only investigates African-Americans? It doesn’t make sense.”
Yes, it makes about as much sense as the cops always arresting the black guy.
I doubt that a Republican congress would investigate only black members.
The predictions that America’s racial problems will first blow up in the Democratic party seem to be coming true.
3 Comments
Nov 3, 2009 11:39 am |
When I was working in Kenya shortly before independence I chanced to go into the stock room where the office boys were wont to hang out and found them busy raffling off my car and my secretary come independence day.This “whites stole everything” almost seems part of the black DNA and Africa proves it, nowhere in the world is theft and corruption so endemic. The move into politics has never been seen by any of them as a means of public service but only a chance to get the white mans things. I still follow events in Kenya, the average person lives on $ 2 a day yet their parliamentarians are the highest paid in the world. Interest free car loans, basic tax free car allowance of $4,500 per month for the first 200 miles and $ 1.60 per km ($ 2.56 per mile) for any additional travel.
So it is with black politicians everywhere, be it US or England. Most white have been imbued with ethics from birth, that is sadly lacking in most of the race. I knew Nyerere of Tanzania, he was honest but totally misguided. I once got one a small plane in Botswana to find the prime minister with his wife and daughter sitting in it. No fuss, no guards. The most transparent and honest country in Africa with one major difference. They do not elect their prime minister, Seretse Khama was the paramount chief of the major tribe and the chiefs appoint the p.m. Elections produce demagogues and charlatans, the one who promises most, i.e. the biggest liar, gets the job.
Nov 3, 2009 9:13 pm |
I think it is far harder for a black to get elected in a mixed liberal district than for a white. Therefore blacks are loathe to give up on black politicians because there is a likely chance that who ever replaces the crook will be white. Plus, with so much at stake because blacks are so much more dependent upon patronage jobs and machine jobs that to lose their guy means more than losing someone they identify with.
Nov 9, 2009 2:53 pm |
With so many blacks getting political power it’s almost impossible now to get any kind of a nude negro law passed, either locally or on a larger scale. And with things going the way they are, some kind a nude negro policy is needed for all of our safety, especially blacks.
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