CBCI leadership regroups around proposed presidential debate

A letter begging Barack Obama to re-commit to participate in the Fox News/CBC Institute presidential debate has been shared with Afro-Netizen by our good friends at ColorOfChange.org. It was leaked to them by a member of the Congressional Black Congress (CBC) and now referenced in a Hill article that went to press today.

The letter to Obama begins: "Please, baby, baby, baby. Please!" Woops, that's the subtext, not the actual verbiage.

Seriously though, click on the image to the left to read the full letter yourselves.

Please remember that some weeks ago, as spearheaded by the valiant work of ColorOfChange.org, a number of Black bloggers and other progressive-types railed on the CBCI for peddling this ill-conceived and dubious partnership with the Faux News Channel, and as a result, Edwards, then later Obama (and finally, Hillary) dropped out of participating in the scheduled debate.

The CBCI leadership's response to our collective critique was that CBC members did not control the actions of the independent CBCI. But now that it has egg on its face and will be coming alone to the poorly attended dance, the CBCI has leaned on CBC members to help them validate themselves in the eyes of the mainstream media.

The problem here (and there are plenty) is that it's not the mainstream media that the CBCI should be seeking validation from: it's Blackfolk who give a damn. And guess what? If they forget this fact, we won't!

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[2008 Presidential Candidates]

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[asdada]

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[Rosetta Miller Perry]

This 'liberal activists' says
"if you debate on FAUX" we will not only tune you out but you will not even be considered in the race for President.

[Villager]

I didn't think that Obama and other Democratic leaders should be dancing with the devil back in April when this issue was first discussed. I still think it would be a terrible mistake for Obama or Clinton to go on the Fox news channel for this debate. There aren't any changes to the facts.

I am glad that you are pointing out this latest information. Thank you.

peace, Villager

[Greg Fuller]

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Champions Fox News

By

Greg Fuller

In the view of many, mine included , the Black Community consist of people with diverse viewpoints and interest , but it is also true that many in the Black community understand that we still have an common interest in maintaining , and expanding to those still left out of ,the political and economic gains of the past 40 years . Moreover, the Black Community common interest still has as goals: solidifying our position in new arenas we now find ourselves, and breaking down the barriers to arenas we are still excluded from. The CBC was founded in recognition of and to further these goals.

If one analyzes the struggle for Blacks to attain parity in this society, there is no doubt that, since 1964 and to this very day, the GOP has opposed those goals in action if not in principle. Moreover, it is a matter of fact and beyond dispute, that Fox News Network is one of the GOP’s most pronounced and effective tools in actively opposing the goals many in the Black Community are unified on. That said, the CBC needs to explain it self: Why is the CBC cooperating with Fox News on any level?

In General, Fox News is a bastion of political operatives who champion views and agendas that are an anathema to the interest of the majority of Black people in particular and the middleclass in general .

At the highest political levels in America, powerful interest function within a framework of having no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interest . One of the few exceptions to this rule has been in the area of racial politics. Since at least 1964 when Barry Goldwater opposed civil rights as part of his presidential campaign , the GOP has employed racial politics without reservation or regret . To further the larger economic interesting of the Republican Party racial politics has been a central organizing strategy ; it is used by preying on America’s history of racial division to keep a sizable segment of the White population voting and supporting the GOP. Now that racial politics in its unvarnished form is considered unacceptable, and bad for business by the large commercial interest who are political contributors, Gay marriage and abortion are now used more prominently than racial politics, but racial politics is still very much with us as it has for all of this Nation’s history. That history being to exhaustive to recount here, I’ll limit my examples to just a few anecdotes that I vividly recall:

During the 1968 Presidential Campaign, Richard Nixon co-opted George Wallace’s law and order politics (anti-civil rights) and labeled it his southern strategy. Nixon used lingering White resentment over the passages of voting rights and civil rights laws to bring voters with those resentments into the GOP .The Southern Strategy has been a touchstone of GOP politics ever since, giving rise to the present day Red State , Blue State dichotomy . Some will I’m sure ,try to hoodwink their present day followers’ into thinking Red and Blue is about other things other than race ,but that would be revisionist history by any factual standard .

Since Nixon, the southern strategy playbook has included ,to cite just a few examples :

Roland Reagan’s 1980 Philadelphia Mississippi(the site of KKK murders of Civil Rights Workers ) “ State’s Rights Speech “, George Bush Senior’s operative Lee Atwater’s (Carl Rove’s patron saint ) use of the Willie Horton ad’s to inject race into the 1988 Presidential Campaign , in 1990 Senator Jessie Helms used ads that suggested that Blacks where displacing Whites from jobs they should have gotten but did not due to Affirmative Action . Affirmative Action is typically mischaracterized and used by the GOP as a proxy for race as are Welfare Recipients despite facts that refute the racial stereotypes of Welfare Queens and etc. Since 2000, the George W. Bush administration attacked Affirmative Action as one of its first initiatives. Moreover, Bush’s Department of Justice now operates under the philosophy that pursuing religious discrimination is a higher priority than racial injustice. And let us not forget Other Bush family favors, like Jeb Bush’s secretive removal of Blacks from Florida’s voter rolls and similar vote suppression efforts by the GOP in Ohio and elsewhere.

For a long time the GOP has sought out EICBs (everything is cool Blacks), for appointed and elected positions. EICBs typically represent the extreme minority of Blacks who feel our quest for full inclusion in American society has been achieved, and that race is now a hindrance no greater than having red hair or big feet.

Apparently, hiring even EICBs no longer meets GOP needs : Breathtaking in its raw arrogance and potential for malevolence, we now find out that in the George W Bush administration , Blacks have been routinely ruled out as hires for the position of attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division .

And , should the “keepers of the flame” at the CBC think the lack of Black attorney hires in Civil Rights is an anomaly, and that the GOP age of racial politics is over - they should think about the GOP’s treatment of their former member Harold Ford during his Senatorial bid , when the “Call me Harold “ ad was used to exploit any
anti-miscegenation campaign contributors or voters in the Tennessee electorate . After thinking about Harold’s experience ,they should view the clips at : “Fox Attacks Black America” , they will find that the clips are threads from the same GOP shroud of racial politics as the “Call me Harold “ ad (http://foxattacks.com/2007/03/fox_attacks_black_america.php) .

.

So again I repeat : Why is the CBC cooperating with Fox News on any level ? Is it that they think Fox News is no longer an appendage of the GOP ? Or do they think an agreement with FOX reduces Fox’s ability to cut, paste and frame the content or distort it for later use ? Additionally ,why would any credible Democratic Candidate for President risk such distortion, given Fox’s record of extreme bias.

I have long thought that ,in general ,Democrats demonstrate strategic idiocy by appearing on the Fox News Channel. Needless to say, that makes any CBC and Fox News cooperation highly suspect both strategically and as a matter of principle .

Comments and feedback are welcomed .

Greg

[rikyrah]

They're now clowning, calling folks who are against this debate 'liberal activists'.

Um, when did 'liberal' become a derisive word from the BLACK POINT OF VIEW?

WTF?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/24/64418/8545

These CBC clowns just need to cop to it - they're SELLOUTS.

[rikyrah]

We need to get the word out. Folks need to contact the Clinton, Edwards and Obama campaigns and tell them that we totally approve of them dissing Faux News. The CBC wanted to get in bed with those snakes, let them choke on it.

[ColorOfChange.org]

Here's the list of signatures on the letter. A question mark next to the name means the signature was hard to read and is a bit unclear. There was one name that we couldn't decipher at all. Image of the signatures coming soon.

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Bennie Thompson
James Clyburn
Sanford Bishop
Gwen Moore (?)
G.K. Butterfield
Mel Watt
Danny Davis
Bobby Rush (?)
John Lewis
Keith Ellison
Charles Rangel
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Sheila Jackson Lee
Donna Christian-Christensen
Diane Watson
Al Wynn
Elijah Cummings
David Scott
Yvette Clarke
John Conyers
Hank Johnson
Al Green
Corrine Brown