Congressional Black Caucus Walks Out of Contempt Vote
29th June 2012
Not that they would have contributed anything to the proceeding had they stayed. Their position is entirely predicated on the fact that Holder, like them, is a black Democrat, without respect to the facts of the case. Were he white, or a Republican (or, horror of horrors, a white Republican), they wouldn’t have budged. But identity politics expresses its Third World roots in supporting members of The Tribe regardless of the actual situation (precisely the reason democracy takes no root in the Muslim World). In that, it is profoundly ‘conservative’ — or perhaps ‘regressive’ would be a more accurate term.
Indeed, being an explicitly racist organization devoted to promoting a particular ethnic group and screwing everybody else whenever possible, a good case could be made that Congress — and the people of the United States — would be well rid of them if they stayed away forever.