Irony in the Wild
Monday 19 September 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized
Via The Hill concerning the Congressional Black Caucus’ reactions to overbearing unemployment amongst blacks:
Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
“If [former President] Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House,” Cleaver told “The Miami Herald” in comments published Sunday. “There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.”
[. . .]
Rather than targeting Obama’s leadership, many CBC members aimed their fire at the Tea Party movement over the summer’s congressional recess. Waters said in a public meeting in her district that the Tea Party “can go straight to hell.” Another member, Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), called the Tea Party “the real enemy” seeking to hold Congress “hostage.”
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), the only Republican member of the CBC and also a member of the Tea Party Caucus, objected to hostile language used by members targeting the Tea Party movement and threatened to leave the caucus unless Cleaver condemned remarks made by other members. West singled out comments from Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), the CBC’s whip, who said that Tea Party-affiliated members of Congress see African-Americans as “second-class citizens” and would be happy to see them “hanging from a tree.”
If you look over there folks, you’ll see sweet, dripping irony in its natural environment. Don’t make any sudden moves or you might disturb it.
In other words, you can’t hold your own president accountable for his failures because he’s black, and you put all of the blame on the Tea Party racism. But if the president were white, you would have already stormed the White House in a fit of rage. Nah! That’s not racist at all.
2011-09-19 » madlibertarianguy