The Congressional Black Caucus, which frequently complains that Congress is silencing black voices, has denied the application of four congressional black voices.
The four black members of Congress include Reps. Burgess Owens, R-Utah; Wesley Hunt, R-Texas; Byron Donalds, R-Fla.; and John James, R-Mich.
“Unfortunately, for the Left, their priorities are power and profit” Owens told the Daily Signal.
Owens and Donalds pushed to rename the Capitol’s press gallery after civil rights icon Frederick Douglass, a Republican, but caucus members refused to co-sponsor the resolution.
“Democrats know Douglass was a Republican,” Owens said. “They don’t stand up for the things that really should make a difference. They stand up for everything the Democratic Party wants, which means the black community is not always in a good place.”
Owens, who sits on the House’s Education and Workforce Committee, said the Congressional Black Caucus will advocate against the things that could strengthen the black community, such as education.
“That means they are going to vote against school choice,” he said. “Our kids are going down so fast, so far because they’re not getting the right education. … The Black Caucus doesn’t want [school choice] to happen because the Democratic Party doesn’t want that to happen.”
Owens said he grew up in the 1960s deep South, where his community “was doing well” and people believed in faith, family, and the free market. However, he added, the Left doesn’t value those ideals today.
“Marxists and socialists hate faith, family, and free market education because that sense of independence takes away their power and ability to make profit,” he said. “When they make profit on people’s misery, that’s a big business.”
Owens added, “They allow people not to feel good about themselves, feel hopeless, feel desperate, then they depend on you. … And when people have that kind of mindset, and they have no concept of what it is to believe in God or have empathy, they’ll do everything selfishly.”
The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing legislation asking young black athletes to avoid playing college sports for universities in the South, as a method of retaliating against states that redrew congressional maps. Owens, who was the third black athlete to receive a football scholarship from the University of Miami, criticized the effort, saying it’s a move by “black elitists” who want to “take the dreams of young black people away so that they can keep theirs.”
The caucus has received criticism for other decisions, including denying membership to Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., a white congressman who nevertheless represents the largest black community in Tennessee.
Other black conservative members of Congress, such as Donalds and Hunt, claim they were shunned by the caucus because they don’t approve of race-based politics.
“Democrats always use race [as a] political crutch,” Donalds said in an interview with the Daily Signal. “Their ideas aren’t logical, so what they try to do is use the emotions tied to the history of our country and weaponize those emotions for political gain. It’s sick.”
“I think that’s why you’re seeing more and more people walk away from the Democratic Party,” he added.
The Congressional Black Caucus did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
Pedro Boccalato Rodriguez-Aparicio is a journalism fellow at the Daily Signal.
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Pedro Rodriguez
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What would people say if there was a congressional white caucus?
Individuals need to stop looking at black and white and racism! The Democratic Party uses race and it’s all about Socialism, Marxist, Communism, Muslims, wanting to destroy America and the American people!
the congressional black caucus should be called either the LIBERAL congressional black caucus or the DEMOCRATIC congressional black caucus. The four black members of Congress shunned by the congressional black caucus have two things in common: they’re all republican and they;re all conservative.
Black voices silenced? Only when they should shout loudest are they quietest on their own. Never a peep against the disorder on the street and violence coming from burning and looting. Failed schools, communities and drug addiction, no one is stopping them from speaking against that.
Black or White, the Left are hypocrites, one and all.
The whole idea of a “Black” Caucus is racist.
REMINDER… In 1854, the Republican Party was established in Ripon, Wisconsin, when a group of men came together to form an anti-slavery coalition to meet the growing danger it posed to the country.
Inthe 1960s after the assassination of JFK, LBJ twisted n turned DEMONcRatic prejudice segregation into a 15% Voting Block. Plantation-ists plantationing black skin as RACE, weakening family w FINANCE$, and turning Oxy-Moronic Planned Parenthood loose on the innocent unborn black children a 30% Sales Mkt – a SINister sicko sham. 22% of black families hav no Father in the home. Dems hav no shame jus SCAMS oh n slander when exposed. Msm is just as culpable n COWARDLY. ????????????
why is there a black caucus?
what is the point?
is there an AMERICAN caucus?
Racism will never go away until we stop coming up with organizations that represent one color or another, why can’t people just be known as human beings with hearts and souls.
Since debut year 1 & we need a MAGA Caucus & or America First
“Racism” willl never go away, ’cause the Dumba$$ocrat$ will not let it!
They only recognize black communists and islamists, i.e., enemies of USA.
imo
The Black congressional Caucus is by its very name a Racist organization and is therefore unconstitutional. Should be sued out of existence! PMW!
Hah! This answers my internal question then. I have often wondered if any person who was not ‘black’ would be allowed to join this caucus. Wow….Owens, Daniels, and the other two are super straight conservative GENTLEMEN!!!!! Who wouldn’t want them to join the club? I guess that’s obvious now! What would they say if congress had a ‘White caucus!?”