This is the Congressional Black Caucus' Mission Statement:

Since 1971, the Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (at times referred to herein as the “CBC” or “Caucus”) have joined together to strengthen their efforts to empower America’s neglected citizens – including but not limited to Americans of color – by more effectively addressing our legislative concerns. The Congressional Black Caucus is committed to utilizing the full Constitutional power, statutory authority, and financial resources of the Government of the United States of America to ensure, insofar as possible, that everyone in the United States has an opportunity to live out the American Dream.

The legislative agenda of universal empowerment that the Members of the Caucus shall collectively pursue shall include, but are not limited to: the creation of universal access to a world-class education from birth through post secondary level; the creation of universal access to quality, affordable health care and the elimination of racially based health disparities; the creation of universal access to modern technology, capital, and full, fairly compensated employment; the creation and or expansion of US foreign policy initiatives that will contribute to the survival, health, education, and general welfare of all peoples of the world in a manner consistent with universal human dignity, tolerance, and respect, and such other legislative action as a majority of the entire CBC membership from time to time may support.

Now with that in mind, consider the organization's no-white's policy. Remember House member Stephen I. Cohen from Tennessee who represented a 60 percent poverty stricken black district? Cohen said if he was elected he would become the "first white member" of the CBC. He was told by one of the CBC member William Lacy Clay, Missouri, whites need not apply.

"Mr. Cohen asked for admission, and got his answer...It's time to move on...It's an unwritten rule. It's understood. It's clear."

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/01/con...r-blacks-only/

More food for thought on this exclusive club who claims to want to live out the dreams of Martin Luther King and fight to ensure "that everyone in the United States has an opportunity to live out the American Dream."

"From 2004 to 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus’s political and charitable wings took in at least $55 million in corporate and union contributions, according to an analysis by The New York Times, an impressive amount even by the standards of a Washington awash in cash. Only $1 million of that went to the caucus’s political action committee; the rest poured into the largely unregulated nonprofit network. (Data for 2009 is not available.)

"The caucus says its nonprofit groups are intended to help disadvantaged African-Americans by providing scholarships and internships to students, researching policy and holding seminars on topics like healthy living.

"But the bulk of the money has been spent on elaborate conventions that have become a high point of the Washington social season, as well as the headquarters building, golf outings by members of Congress and an annual visit to a Mississippi casino resort.

"In 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation spent more on the caterer for its signature legislative dinner and conference — nearly $700,000 for an event one organizer called 'Hollywood on the Potomac' — than it gave out in scholarships, federal tax records show."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us...pagewanted=all

Now, perhaps you personally knew or have received an education on Martin Luther King, Jr., waynet and you can school us all on what he stood for and what he acheived before his death. But I ask what do you think Martin Luther King, Jr., woud say about the recent scandals of the CBS members like NY's Charlie Rangal, California's Maxine Waters, Illinois Rep. Jessee Jackson Jr. California Rep. Laura Richardson, Florida's own Kendrick Meek and Eddie Johnson of Texas.

All under the flag of the exclusive Black's only Democrat Congressional Black Caucus who will keep another black and Democrat in office without any consideration for another candidate.

I think Shelby Steele Steele sums it up in a 2001 interview: "Martin Luther King was speaking to an America that had not yet fully acknowledged its wrong in slavery and segregation. And so it became a major theme in the civil rights movement to lead with our humanity, to lead with what we have in common, to deemphasize race because race is a barrier to our rights. After America admitted its wrong in the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and so forth, it gave blacks moral authority. And all of a sudden the very racial identity that we had deemphasized because it kept us behind the walls of segregation we now embraced because it brought us social programs, affirmative action, and advantages in American life that other groups did not have. That’s how I think it happened.

"We made a mistake when we based our claim on American society on our race rather than on our humanity. We reestablished race as a powerful force in American life, and since that time we’ve all been preoccupied with what we created, an identity politics, in which each group pursues its rights based on its race rather than on its citizenship as Americans. It wasn’t wrong for us to expect that after four centuries of repression there would be some assistance. But it was profoundly wrong of us to turn around and embrace race ourselves because we thought it would bring us certain advantages."

http://www.hoover.org/publications/h...t/article/6285