Black America's gains and losses By Alan Caruba web posted
August 22, 2011 You know that Barack Obama is in trouble when
even the Congressional Black Caucus begins to criticize him.
Maxine Waters (D-CA) recently told a gathering that the CBC is
"frustrated" with regard to unemployment, a problem that has hit
blacks harder than whites. The only thing holding the CBC back
from being more vocal, said Waters, was its fear they will lose
the support of the black community. It says something about
Congress and politics in America that the only race-based caucus
is the Black Caucus. Like many Americans, I watched the Civil
Rights movement of the 1960s unfold with the feeling that, a
century after the Civil War, it was long overdue. The movement
had a leader of remarkable talent, Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.,
plus others from the ministry and labor movement. It was a time
of turmoil that ended with the assassinations of Dr. King,
President John F. Kennedy, and of Bobby Kennedy. Others died too
in the struggle but they