From "Today could be really good for Biden ... or really bad" (WaPo).
Is it the case that CBC members are in safe districts and less worried about reelection? Here's something from Axios (from February 2023):
Of the 60 Black lawmakers elected to Congress this year, 30 now represent states or districts with a plurality of white voters, according to an Axios analysis.... It marks a dramatic shift from the recent past, when most Black lawmakers hailed from majority-minority districts specifically drawn to elect them. In 2014, only eight (of 43) elected Black lawmakers were from plurality-white states or districts....
Between the lines: The Congressional Black Caucus, whose membership is exclusively Democrats, also has faced divisions between its older members, who mostly hail from safe districts, and a newer cadre of lawmakers who represent swing seats in diverse districts and have a broader outlook....
Speaking of the old/young division, I think this quote from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), quoted in the WaPo article, is telling: "I’m a CBC member. We respect our elders. Our elders mean a lot to us, and Joe Biden is an elder. He exemplifies what it means to be a great public servant."
Johnson himself is one of the elders. He's 69. And his district is safe.
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30 now represent states or districts with a plurality of white voters,
of these 30.. how are from True Blue areas?
Safe district doesn't mean "majority black", it means (big) majority your party
And just like that, questioning Biden's fitness for office becomes racist. Sigh...
Political blacks are unhinged, as far as I can tell.
NEA speech
Biden fits right in.
Senate members
The 3 black U.S. senators, all Democrats, who are or have been members of the Congressional Black Caucus are
Senator Laphonza Butler of California,
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey,
Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia.
A map of congressional districts represented by Black representatives in the 118th Congress..
Looks pretty True Blue to me
except for Raph.. and i doubt he's thinking reelection
It's really a non-story. There is no more entrenched all-in, one dimensional Democratic group in the United States than the DNC Congressional Black Caucus. They vote as one block, and always down the establishment path. They may occasionally threaten to vote against the Powers That Be, but they always get a hand out, then vote the party line. They continue to go back home to their districts, telling their folks how much money they've brought back home to the district for them, while in the meantime, the districts continue to have horrible crime, awful schools, and no school choice. And the DNC-CBC members skate back to Washington to get rewarded for backing the establishment candidate, currently Joe Biden.
This is as shocking as the sun coming up in the east. What would make a good story is if the DNC Congressional Black Caucus (a) actually allowed a Black conservative to join the caucus, and (b) if they ever voted against how the establishment told them to vote. One dimensional and gutless. Very much like most of our Congress.
Hank "Guam tipping over?" Johnson? He set a new level for stupidity.
The CBC true name is "Congressional Democrats Black Caucus." They've rejected Black Republicans.
"Safe district doesn't mean "majority black", it means (big) majority your party"
I know, but I found the article I found. Maybe you can find another that goes into detail about how safe CBC members' districts are. I assumed they were safer than most non-CBC Democrats' districts, and I suspect that the districts held by older CBC members are safer.
They hold together as a bloc, and as such they are powerful, but what are their interests compared to the interests of other Democrats (when it comes to reelection worries)?
Cool. Joe (or whoever keeps making these moves in his name) continues to step in it. This will drive a wedge between the younger members of the CBC who actually have to compete for their seats and the oldtimers in relatively safe districts, which coincidentally are losing young and male voters to Trump too. The at-risk Black pols share the concerns of the Congresscritters who have already voiced trepidation about Biden dragging the whole ticket down with him. It was a fact prior to June 27 that while Joe's policies were toxic (which is why you never hear Inflation Reduction Act or Bidenomics anymore from that side) he himself enjoyed a strangely persistently high personal affinity from voters. That's done. Joe personally is toxic, his policies are toxic, and every appearance/call-in he makes is just reinforcing the negatives, not dispelling them. At all.
Not only will this divide the CBC it will drive a bigger wedge between the old Black fossils "riding with Biden" and the young and male Black voters who had already started a preference cascade away from the toxic policies of Democrats.
FYI: Here's what the Biden Administration says it's done for black people.
"Hank "Guam tipping over?" Johnson? He set a new level for stupidity."
I've only used my Hank Johnson tag once before. It was back in 2013. A quote:
"Imagine, Mr. Speaker, a world without balloons. How can we make sure that the injustice of there being no helium for comedians to get that high-pitched voice that we all hold near and dear to our hearts."
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/04/imagine-mr-speaker-world-without.html
Yeah, Hank Johnson. After his Guam comment he should have lost his seat.
The CBC is out of touch and really shameful. Biden’s policies have hurt Blacks the most.
1. Open borders. That puts pressure on employment and wages.
2. Inflation. It hurts people at the lowest end of the income scale the hardest.
3. Drugs. Lower cost and bigger supply of drugs hits the Black community the hardest.
Open your eyes before it is too late.
“American Rescue Plan (ARP), the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—“ From Ann’s link.
All this government spending increased the money supply by 37% and that’s why we had that 20-40% inflation.
The IRA is all about federal tax credits for Dem donors and fat cats. Expensive solar and wind drives up electricity prices. That hurts Blacks the most.
Biden Administration: Hey, Blacks. Don’t believe your lying eyes.
There are none so blind as those who stuff their freezers full of cash.
Gee Hank, that's a nice sentiment. Just make sure your pal Joey doesn't go to Guam. It might tip over.
The Democrat party divisit tres partes.
1. The Wall Street, professional class and fat cats that are making big bucks on solar and wind.
2. The identity politics crew for whom race and sex uber alles. This includes the abortion people.
3. The useful idiots who will vote D even if a corpse is at the top of the ticket. This includes the CAGW nuts.
SAVE voting bill - which will ensure illegals do not vote - DEMOCRATS ARE DEAD SET AGAINST IT.
James Clyburn, the de facto leader, threw Biden under the bus days ago. This was in the news.
His support now means Biden promised him something. But I see nothing talking about this flip.
Sure, he caters to the black caucus, but he shits on the rest of the country. Gotta cater to the minorities during election time to buy votes!!
I'm sure ordinary blacks - who have taken a beating under Biden - will really give a rat's ass about what elite blacks in congress think.
I just saw J. Kyle Bass on CNBC. He’s a high level genius. He nailed it.
1. The government’s own stat shows that the cost of housing is up 50% in three years.
2. Real wages are down 25-30%.
3. The official inflation numbers are rigged. It is much worse than reported.
4. The money supply is up 40%. The Fed overshot.
I hope Bass gets a Cabinet spot in the Trump Administration.
Biden is going to win -- Black voters, college educated White women, the ultra wealthy and people who have never held a job in their lives. Because of mail in ballots, 100% of these people are going to vote.
Lilly, a dog: "Gee Hank, that's a nice sentiment. Just make sure your pal Joey doesn't go to Guam. It might tip over."
Are you still strongly considering voting for biden simply to enjoy hearing some Trump supporters complain and whine about a "stolen election"?
You came across quite adament on that point.
I’m sorry, but regardless of what Biden may or may not have done for the Black community in the past, there is no reason to continue to support him when he is in distinctly and clear declining cognitive and physical health. The election is about the future. Our US President must be cognitively healthy. As Van Jones said, the Presidency is a speaking role. If you can’t do that, then you don’t fit the required criteria. Doesn’t matter at all with whom you’ve surrounded yourself.
CBC is likely supporting Biden because they rightly suspect that means President Harris fairly soon after the election, if he wins. They’re all on board with that chilling prospect.
Dave Begley at 0701:
You can add crime, education policy, job exports, and destruction of the American Family to your list of anti-black Biden policies.
The money supply is up 40%.
And yet nobody I know has any! (I certainly don't!)
i got bored.. And compiled this list from wiki.. (~means i had to self calc)
United States House of Representatives
Alabama
Terri Sewell (D-AL-7, Birmingham) 63.54%
California
Barbara Lee (D-CA-12, Oakland), retiring at end of 118th Congress, ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate
Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37, Los Angeles) 64.0%
Maxine Waters (D-CA-43, Los Angeles) at least 70% of the vote
Colorado
Joe Neguse (D-CO-2, Lafayette) 70.7%
Connecticut
Jahana Hayes (D-CT-5, Wolcott) 50.4%!
Delaware
Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-AL, Wilmington), retiring at end of 118th Congress, running for U.S. Senate
Florida
Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10, Orlando) 59.00%
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20, Miramar) 72%
Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24, Miami Gardens) 76%
Georgia
Sanford Bishop (D-GA-2, Albany) 54.97%
Hank Johnson (D-GA-4, Lithonia) 78.49%
Nikema Williams (D-GA-5, Atlanta) 65%
Lucy McBath (D-GA-7, Marietta) 63.1 %
David Scott (D-GA-13, Atlanta) 81.7%
Illinois
Jonathan Jackson (D-IL-1, Chicago) 67.0%
Robin Kelly (D-IL-2, Matteson) 67.13%
Danny Davis (D-IL-7, Chicago) 99.94%!!!
Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14, Naperville) 54%
Indiana
Andre Carson (D-IN-7, Indianapolis) 62.4% (2020)
Louisiana
Troy Carter (D-LA-2, New Orleans) 77.1%
Maryland
Glenn Ivey (D-MD-4, Cheverly) 90.1%
Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7, Baltimore) 82.06%
Massachusetts
Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7, Boston) 84.6%
Minnesota
Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5, Minneapolis) 74.33%
Mississippi
Bennie Thompson (D-MS-2, Bolton) 60.10%
Missouri
Cori Bush (D-MO-1, St. Louis) 72.8%
Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5, Kansas City) 61.0%
Nevada
Steven Horsford (D-NV-4, Las Vegas) 52.4%
New Jersey
Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12, Ewing Township) 63.1%
New York
Gregory Meeks (D-NY-5, Queens) tldr
Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-8, Brooklyn) tldr
Yvette Clarke (D-NY-9, Brooklyn) tldr
Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15, Bronx) tldr
Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16, Yonkers) OUT ON HIS ASS
North Carolina
Don Davis (D-NC-1, Snow Hill) 52.4%
Valerie Foushee (D-NC-4, Chapel Hill) 66.91%
Alma Adams (D-NC-12, Charlotte) 62.75%
Ohio
Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3, Columbus) 70.2%
Shontel Brown (D-OH-11, Warrensville Heights)
Emilia Sykes (D-OH-13, Akron) ~53%
Pennsylvania
Dwight Evans (D-PA-2, Philadelphia) 95.1%
Summer Lee (D-PA-12, Pittsburgh) 56.2%
Rhode Island
Gabe Amo (D-RI-1, Providence) 64.7%
South Carolina
Jim Clyburn (D-SC-6, Columbia) 62.04%
Texas
Al Green (D-TX-9, Houston) 76.7%
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18, Houston) 70.7%
Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-30, Dallas) 74.7%
Colin Allred (D-TX-32, Dallas), retiring at end of 118th Congress, running for U.S. Senate
Marc Veasey (D-TX-33, Fort Worth) 71.98%
Virginia
Bobby Scott (D-VA-3, Newport News) ~67%
Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-4, Richmond) 74.4%
Washington
Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10, Tacoma) 57.0%
Wisconsin
Gwen Moore (D-WI-4, Milwaukee) 75.27%
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so:
Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10, Orlando) 59.00%
Sanford Bishop (D-GA-2, Albany) 54.97%
Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14, Naperville) 54%
Don Davis (D-NC-1, Snow Hill) 52.4%
Emilia Sykes (D-OH-13, Akron) ~53%
Summer Lee (D-PA-12, Pittsburgh) 56.2%
Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10, Tacoma) 57.0%
seem to be THE ONLY ones with less than 60% (outside of NY, which i was TOO BORED to compile)
Megan Kelly gets it.
If you vote for the horrid Biden family - there is something wrong with you.
Coke head Hunter can bring his own father down - that's also why Joe is staying. The Biden greed heads want power, perks, status and money.
i missed Steven Horsford (D-NV-4, Las Vegas) 52.4%
Failure and division was baked into the Democratic Party from 2015. By staying with Biden and the Democratic Party, the CBC is hurting itself and destroying its own reason for being.
1. Hillary's 2016 "triangulation" Party crushed opposition and castrated the Bernie Bros.
2. The angry young Squad threatened to overthrow the old White Democrat control.
3. In 2020 the Democrats engaged in their routine circular firing squad, and Clyburn of the CBC anointed Biden as the Party figurehead -- and then Clyburn plainly led Biden's agenda.
4. In making a 2020 deal with the Trump-competitor billionaire donor class (Gates, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc.), the Party ideology is going in 2-3 opposing directions.
5. The black CBC voters now compete with unfunded non-black immigrants for government gifts and jobs.
6. The black CBC voters now compete with non-black pro-Palestine activists and alt-sex people.
7. The black CBC voters now compete with environmental-globalist-wealthy Democratic voters...the same class who set up Planned Parenthood to keep the black population small and who bribed/condescended/imprisoned/regulated urban blacks for decades.
8. The black CBC is now funded by Michael "you've got to throw minorities against the wall" Bloomberg!
The old-line CBC truly doesn't understand that closed borders, pro-native born Trump is black voters best friend. Many black voters do understand. See the shifting polls.
They know Joe won’t make 4 more years. They also know Joe won’t jettison Kamala. So, if the DNC machine works it magic with mail in ballots, then they’ll get a President Harris, who they can control like the people currently running Biden.
but what are their interests compared to the interests of other Democrats (when it comes to reelection worries)?
I’m an expert on their reelection worries- they have none. Democrat voters will all fall in line and that includes all of them. Have your fun fantasizing about replacement theory. Soon you will begin to accept the The People Running the Executive Have Done A Great Job gambit, which is really no gamble at all…
The cost of housing being up just reflects the interest rate rise, not an underlying price of wood.
The interest rate being up means that money is being withdrawn from the economy. That's how the Fed's open market operations work.
"If you vote for the horrid Biden family - there is something wrong with you."
Why yes, there is something wrong with Democrat's plantation blacks, and I don't just mean politically. Did people not see Chicago over the weekend?
I'm super glad the CBC isn't on our side...we don't need more fuckups we've plenty of our own.
If you vote for the horrid Biden family - there is something wrong with you.
There will be something wrong with 90 million voters come November…
How much of my money is Biden promising them to pay for this?
It's in the CBC's interest for a Democrat to be the next president. Biden polls behind all of the potential replacements, even Harris.
If the CBC was smart, they'd demand Biden resign so that Harris could run as an incumbent, or have Biden bow-out of the nomination and endorse a black Democrat determined by the CBC. They could tell Biden that they thank him for his service, but if he doesn't agree to one of these, the CBC will officially support Trump in the next election.
A group which always supports the Democrat no matter what, doesn't have as much power as they could have.
I have worked in those districts in south florida what do they have to show for their devotion absolutely nothings ht warren starr say it again
dbp said...
A group which always supports the Democrat no matter what, doesn't have as much power as they could have.
7/9/24, 7:56 AM
James Clyburn is responsible for Kamala Harris occupying her post, and he is well aware of his power under the Bidens. Any young bucks in the CBC had better be careful about challenges, or Clyburn will make certain they never come out of the mail room.
I wonder what Jill promised.
“FYI: Here's what the Biden Administration says it's done for black people.”
The first claim in the administration’s report is that “Black wealth increased 60% since before the pandemic”. Here’s where that claim apparently came from.
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/19/black-household-wealth-pandemic
“Before the pandemic” is a long time. So long that it included the last two years of the Trump presidency.
Remember when Biden claimed that the “seeds of inflation” were planted during the Trump administration? Apparently that line of reason doesn’t apply to wealth.
Once again Biden lies by telling half of the story. He takes full credit for the increase in Black wealth but shuffles his own blame for increases in the cost of living back on Trump.
That’s so so Biden.
I don’t have time to Fisk the rest of Biden’s claims, and frankly don’t plan to. I think I know what I’ll find.
They hold together as a bloc, and as such they are powerful, but what are their interests compared to the interests of other Democrats (when it comes to reelection worries)?
For that matter, what are their interests compared to the black communities they allegedly serve (not to mention the non-blacks in the communities they allegedly serve)?
I imagine Biden's pitch to the CBC is, "Look, I'm not going to quit -- too humiliating. And if I did quit, the white liberal elites would want to put in Newsom or some other white person to replace me. The only way this works out for you is if you stick with Biden-Harris, we win, and then I resign during my second term."
This exposes a big problem with the move to push Biden out: Most of the dems pushing for it, at least early on, weren't content to stop with replacing Biden. They wanted to replace Kamala too. It's a bridge too far. It allows Biden to hide behind Kamala's skirt.
Very good comments here. In particular, Temujin (6:51) plus Mike (6:55). Together, these suggest the opposite of the facade of Black Solidarity the CBC tries to convey. That is, panic at the erosion of, especially, young black male support for the Democratic Party's failed racialist policies, which in the name of helping blacks in fact do nothing good for them at all.
Suddenly, I'm getting parliamentary vives from our great democracy.
Joe Biden beats black people. Why would the black community stay loyal to him? Many will - but Biden has done nothing for them.
why would ordinary working class blacks care about what elite a-holes in congress think.
He's gonna keep them'all in chains!!!
I think Biden has lost the support of the black community as a direct result of the debate. I base this on the demeanor of blacks I see around Biden since the debate. They are stiff and formal, stilted, ungraceful. Not hostile, I don't say that - but tight, visibly controlled. Just look past Biden at the people in his background in recent PR events. White people are visibly gushing to indicate support; black people are visibly tense. Why? I think it's because Biden crashed, totally, in an instant - albeit an instant 90 minutes long - throughout the black community. Blacks have very hard lives, they have to meet difficult situations often. Even if there's only one racist a day, that's one tough situation a day whereas if you're white you do not on a daily basis meet a stranger who pointlessly hates you. I don't at all say it never happens when you're white but I do say that it happens much less frequently. And I think it's possible that within the black community the ability to size up a situation and move to meet it and handle it before it even happens so that it never happens is an ability widely possessed, highly valued and well understood. And Biden showed himself devoid of that ability at the debate and that was seen. What that seeing means - I have no idea. Why did it make everyone stiff and formal? Trying to unsee what they saw? I don't know. Maybe this unwanted moment of vision will have nothing to do with voting; maybe voting will happen the way the Black Caucus wants. But if I'm right Desperately Trying to Unsee Joe Biden will in the end mean something and, maybe, for the election. The Realities of Black Life Matter.
OK, who cares less about the plight of black people in America? Joe Biden? Or the CBC?
New York Times columnist John McWhorter has shown us this again recently by wishing someone would assassinate Donald Trump.
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is this for real?
"...this quote from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), quoted in the WaPo article..." That's the 'Cynthia McKinney' seat.
Questioning Bidens mental fitness for the presidency is about to become racist.
Black people vote as a bloc. Despite all the hoopla to the countrary Biden will still get at least 80 percent of the black vote in November. And its the blacks of SC that gave Biden his victory in SC in 2020 and the nomination.
Knowing the Black community has his back will help Biden decide to stay in the race. Again, Biden cannot be pushed out. If he decides to stay in, it will almost impossible due to campaign finance laws and state ballot laws to get him out against his will and put someone else in. And if the NYT's or Rob Reiner doesn't like it, tough titty.
You already feel the steam going out of the "We need to replace Biden" movement.
The soviets wanted a lumpenproletariat they saw the african america in that light much they way they treated the chechen the ingush the kazakh
The CBC are the good negroes on the Democrat family plantation and Joe is their current master. Uncle Toms if you will.
He let them know that back in the 90’s when he sought to imprison as many as possible. They got the message and here we are. Good little negroes, serving their master.
Why did it make everyone stiff and formal?
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could be because now they knwo Massa?
@Narayanan 08:42: You might have to use 'Print View' (F10) to read it, but.....
Yes, he really did say that.
...and he feels virtuous or self-righteous enough to stand by it, unironically.
Narayanan said...
New York Times columnist John McWhorter has shown us this again recently by wishing someone would assassinate Donald Trump.
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is this for real?
17:49
"I have taken a great deal of heat for saying, or implying..."
Intellectuals are the worst. They are the font of hatred in politics. Like lawyers they can justify anything but they have the added baggage of thinking they are smarter and therefore better than everyone else.
Yeah, but...isn't Kamala the (H)eiress-presumptive? Looks like the CBC has bought into the Vote-Biden-Get-Harris theory.
RCOCEAN II said...
Black people vote as a bloc. Despite all the hoopla to the countrary Biden will still get at least 80 percent of the black vote in November.
Biden will get 70-80% of black votes.
Most of those ballots will be harvested and filled out by someone else.
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...
Joe Biden beats black people. Why would the black community stay loyal to him? Many will - but Biden has done nothing for them.
why would ordinary working class blacks care about what elite a-holes in congress think.
They don't.
But when a ballot shows up for everyone in your family and 2 dead people and someone drives by offering 50$ a piece the money is hard to turn down.
"OK, who cares less about the plight of black people in America? Joe Biden? Or the CBC?"
Trick question. Neither. The answer is other black people. They've been fucking each other over longer than either of them have been around.
If the above chieftains did not trade their tribal rivals like the crips and the bloods united slaves and the panthers
This is all kabuki by the way.
Biden wont survive. Figuratively if not literally. He will not be the name at the top of the ticket.
They just need to keep the window of scrutiny off the only person who can keep their coalition together and at least provide cover for the 20 million mail in ballots.
CBC - so for the good of our own seats, and the power we control and wield in the name of black America (for whom we do nothing but keep them on a different kind of plantation - keep voting for us and we’ll keep “fighting” for you), we will rally behind the guy who is demonstrably impaired. Who cares if other world powers decide to take advantage of his feebleness and we end up in a war. Then we’ll draft out loyal army of Black Americans to fight while we continue to suckle of the govt teat.
Nuff said
Swing voters tend to be for divided government. Trump being up a few points in the polls helps Congressional Democrats in swing districts. As for the CBC and black voters more generally, theirs is one of the moderate wings of today’s Democratic Party. President Biden’s policies appeal to moderates, which is why a faction of the party elite and media want to throw him over, and why he has the best chance against Trump.
I wonder if any of the CBC members would be willing to let Joe Biden drive their grandchildren to a playdate on the other side of town.
On the other hand, everything I read says that Biden has lost the Hispanic community (if it is a community at all.) Over, among other things, immigration.
A few days ago I had a fairly lengthy dental procedure. My dental tech was a woman from Honduras. At one point she and my dentist talked about what they did over the fourth of July holiday. The Honduran woman said that some relatives, who are now living in Connecticut, unexpectedly showed up. I think one was her brother. She was not happy.
Apparently they had jumped the border fairly recently. She told them they were not welcome in her house and sent them on their way. She had come to this country “the right way” (her words) while they had come “the wrong way”. She wanted nothing to do with them.
I think the Democrats made a big mistake thinking immigration would be a winning issue with Hispanics. Ditto abortion, as most are Catholic.
I agree with the commenters saying this is about Kamala not Joe. Just as black democrat leadership is united behind voting Biden, they will be just as united calling for Kamala to replace him once voting shenanigans are used to install him for a second term.
Yesterday at Costco I saw two young (well, younger than me) Black men wearing MAGA caps. No white liberal is going to berate them for it, as they would a white man wearing one.
If Biden resigns, Kamala becomes president right now. Yet the CBC wants to keep Biden. It looks like they realize that even an obviously senile Biden is more likely to win the election than a perfectly healthy Kamala. Ouch!
None, literally none, of the "plurality white" districts represented by members of the House's black caucus are actually diverse politically- every single one is a deep blue district just like all the majority black districts represented by black congresscritters. The primaries are sometimes competitive if a member falls out of favor with a particular sub-party of the Democrat Party, such as just happened with Jamaal Bowman. In the general election all of these seats are safe Democrat ones.
The only black member of Capitol Hill who represents a politically diverse population is Senator Warnock of Georgia.
"Those slippers will never come off as long as you're alive. But that's not what's worrying me. It's how to do it. These things must be done delicately." - The Wicked Witch of the West
"James Clyburn, the de facto leader, threw Biden under the bus days ago. This was in the news."
Did he? All I saw was that he said that he would support Harris being at the top of the ticket if Biden withdrew.
These Democrat members of the black caucus will oppose the SAVE ACT being put forth by the GOP House to ensure non-citizens can't vote in federal elections.
All Democrats will oppose it. The White House says it will be vetoed if it gets to Biden's desk.
The flood of illegal immigrants was clearly designed to import Democrat voters by putting them on US benefits. Hurts the black community more than anyone. And NONE of these caucus members care.
“The cost of housing being up just reflects the interest rate rise, not an underlying price of wood.”
Incorrect. It’s material, labor, permits and every other cost associated with land acquisition, construction, etc.
Johnson came on the scene when Cynthia McKinney went full on batshit crazy, interestingly she’s main stream democrat today.
Johnson was a Marine officer and he SEEMED nice.
When there is a Congressional White Caucus I may care.
But until then, those racists can fuck right off...
'FYI: Here's what the Biden Administration says it's done for black people.'
Is there a place where they brag about what they've done for white people?
No?
Can you imagine, in 2024 it's perfectly OK to use political power to benefit a group based upon the color of their skin. And then brag about it.
But it had better be the correct skin color or all hell will break loose.
My comments being dropped yet again.
Maybe my comment will pop back up but I doubt it...
In light of Gilbar's comment where he did the actual work instead of shooting wildly from the lip like I did, I will modify my comment- almost none of the black Dems on Capitol Hill represent politically diverse districts.
Today could be really good for Biden ... or really bad
What a completely vapid headline.
I don't get black peoples' loyalty to this old fool. Leave aside his history of racist statements and his admiration for KKK Exalted Cyclops, Sen. Robert Byrd. Just focus on the 1994 Crime Bill. More than any other Democrat or Republican, this was Biden's doing, and more than any other piece of legislation in the past century, the colossal harm it did to the black community still plagues us today. Millions of black men now have felony records for relatively trivial crimes. Thousands of black men are still serving draconian sentences.
whats that word?
oh
its a cult
follow the leader
The CBC has the most leverage of any group. The negotiation is under way to get that letter signed. The question is, what does Biden have left to offer?
It would be shocking if there was any dissension at all. It was just a matter which way the bloc would land, and given Clyburn is all in on Biden I don't think this is a surprise.
Trump could make a lot of hay out of a SAVE Act veto. And the impact of illegals on the Black community. They feel it and know it, they just need Trump’s leadership to fix it. Biden for sure won’t be fixing it.
ritchie torres is probably the most moderate democrat certainly in the North East, almsot all the ones mentioned include WArnock, who personally offends me, are left wing loons,
Good! The more Democrats and Demomedia put their credibility on the line to support this senile old grifter the better. Although I doubt the black community will notice. Blacks who will notice have severed their ties with the "hood" are moving away from the Democrats. Those who haven't are dying in the streets of, say, Chicago.
Biden could be the first president assassinated by time… or the stairs…
“Look… cghtrrddd grble cream cheese… huftwalasgrgy bootjob… NOT A JOKE!”
—- P0TATUS Joe Biden
As I’ve mentioned before re: Hakeem Jeffries… some say the eyes are a “window to the soul”… just take a look at Jeffries’ Manson Lamps.
Now… does he look like an honest, straight shooter to you?
as stable as his uncle leonard yes that one, the Ice People guy
Even if there's only one racist a day, that's one tough situation a day whereas if you're white you do not on a daily basis meet a stranger who pointlessly hates you.
Sorry, I think this is horse shit. I agree with John Derbyshire that a small but significant fraction of blacks, probably 10-15% or so, despises white people wildly outside the bounds of reason, and will go out of their way to cause them harm even at their own risk or inconvenience. That number grows daily, too. If you are a white person living in a "vibrant" urban setting, fifty times a day you pass by people who would be pleased to see you wearing a burning tire around your neck, and would put it there themselves in the event of a breakdown of civil order. There's nothing at all comparable in the other direction these days, not even in the remotest corners of the Deep South.
Four black US House members represent majority white districts.
Those four are Republicans
Think it's time to differentiate between black congress-people, and black Americans in general. Keep reading that Kamala Harris polls badly amongst African-Americans, both men and women, but for different reasons. Technically-speaking Kamala Harris is not African-American, but rather Indian-Caribbean, spent formative years in Canada, and is (finally) married to a divorced Jewish attorney from a white-shoe law firm. She's even less "black" than Obama.
Biden served under Obama. That's enough for some.
Doing a profile today on a black business man/golf aficionado, he suggested a lunch joint in Chicago that was Obama's favorite. We also saw the current state of the Obama library. So far, quite hideous.
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