Congressional Black Caucus Warns Obama Over Lack Of Diversity In Cabinet

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Purveyor (11,891 posts)

Congressional Black Caucus Warns Obama Over Lack Of Diversity In Cabinet


 
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, March 11, 2013 19:17 EDT

The Congressional Black Caucus complained to President Barack Obama on Monday about his lack of diversity, highlighting his failure to nominate any African-Americans to his second-term cabinet.

“As you continue choosing your critical advisors, we want to stress the importance of ensuring every community has a seat at the table,” CBC chair Marcia Fudge, a Democratic congresswoman from Ohio, said in a letter to Obama, the first black US president.

“The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.”

The frustration about his homogeneous handful of top advisors and department heads is “compounded” due to the overwhelming support from blacks — about 93 percent — that Obama received at the ballot box last November, Fudge wrote.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/11/congressional-black-caucus-warns-obama-over-lack-of-diversity-in-cabinet/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251293329

Is it just me or is there something wrong about the congressional black congress complaining about diversity?
They don't want diversity anymore than they want it in their own caucus.

It burns me up that they can have a black caucus, they can have a women's caucuses, but if there was a white caucus or a (straight) men's caucus that would not be allowed because that would be racist. I'm sick of the different rules for different sexes and different skin tones.

TwilightGardener (38,850 posts)
1. What are Susan Rice and Eric Holder, chopped liver?

Holder is a criminal and Rice is just stupid.

TwilightGardener (38,850 posts)
3. Yup. I understand the push for diversity, but what is Obama supposed to

do now, fire whites in his cabinet to make room for more blacks and Latinos? It's not that easy to find qualified people who pass the vetting and WANT the job, no matter what color or gender they are.

Isn't that what affirmative action is all about?
I love how the left gets all pissy when the policies they started are implemented.

Drunken Irishman (24,564 posts)
4. I think Obama has proven to be the most diverse president in American history.

1. He's black. I mean, that right there trumps everything and anything done before him. Clinton was the first black preezy

2. He's appointed two female Supreme Court Justices - the first president to do so. Bush tried to nominate at least one

3. He appointed the first Hispanic Justice to the Supreme Court. Bush tried to do that

4. He had a female Secretary of State - only the third in U.S. history. Bush appointed the first black female, and the first black male for that job

5. He appointed the first black attorney general in U.S. history. Also the most corrupt

6. He's appointed a record amount of openly gay officials to government roles. Well he is the first gay preezy

This doesn't even get into the policy, things he's accomplished as president, that have benefited minorities and women - like the Lilly Ledbetter Act and being the most vocal president in his support of abortion rights. So an act that did nothing and supporting killing the unborn is something to be proud of?

Yeesh. I get the need for diversity, but these attacks seem to fall flat.

These DUmmies are obviously racists for bashing the Congressional Black Caucus.

[Chris_]

It burns me up that they can have a black caucus, they can have a women's caucuses, but if there was a white caucus or a (straight) men's caucus that would not be allowed because that would be racist. I'm sick of the different rules for different sexes and different skin tones.

It burns me up a third of the CBC's membership has been named in ethics investigations but if you bring up any criticism of them at all, you're branded a racist and worse.

Bunch of ******* thugs and criminals. 

[Chris_]

Maybe we should name Kwame Kilpatrick to the Cabinet.  He seems to have all the qualifications. 

[miskie]

Hey, CBC -- Just a reminder..

As a white liberal running in a majority African American district, Tennessee Democrat Stephen I. Cohen made a novel pledge on the campaign trail last year: If elected, he would seek to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Now that he's a freshman in Congress, Cohen has changed his plans. He said he has dropped his bid after several current and former caucus members made it clear to him that whites need not apply.

Read the rest at the above link.

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Cohen said he became convinced that joining the caucus would be "a social faux pas" after seeing news reports that former Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr., D-Mo., a co-founder of the caucus, had circulated a memo telling members it was "critical" that the group remain "exclusively African-American.

Are you kidding me?

So the liberals tell us Country Clubs can't be all male, Boy Scouts can't remain all Hetro, basically any exclusive club in the country can't be exclusive because it is discrimination.  Yet a liberal black caucus can commit clear discrimination.   

[miskie]

Are you kidding me?

So the liberals tell us Country Clubs can't be all male, Boy Scouts can't remain all Hetro, basically any exclusive club in the country can't be exclusive because it is discrimination.  Yet a liberal black caucus can commit clear discrimination.   

That is correct. And Cohen himself wasn't trying to rabble-rouse with his petition to join the CBC - his constituency is mostly black and leftist, so he figured keeping an ear to the leftist black community would help him better serve his people, and what better way to do that than to join the CBC ?

[Ptarmigan]

Ironic.

[Duke Nukum]

Congressional Black Caucus Warns Obama Over Lack Of Diversity In Cabinet

Racists!