Michelle Alexander: The Congressional Black Caucus PAC Must Cut Ties With Corporations--

[eridani]

--That Prey on the Black Community

WTF??? The will not even endorse one of their own members, Donna Edwards?????

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35551-focus-the-congressional-black-caucus-pac-must-cut-ties-with-corporations-that-prey-on-the-black-community

This is a critically important initiative demanding that the Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee (CBC PAC) cut ties with corporations that do harm to black communities and remake its membership to reflect CBC leadership. Although the CBC PAC bears the name of the Congressional Black Caucus, it's 21-member board only includes 8 of the 46 Black Caucus members. The majority of the board is made up of lobbyists representing various corporate interests, including private prisons.

Two weeks ago, the CBC PAC, with it's lobbyist-dominated board, made a high-profile endorsement of Hillary Clinton and quietly decided NOT to endorse fellow CBC member Rep. Donna Edwards' historic bid to become only the second Black woman to be elected to the Senate.

Read this petition to learn why Donna Edwards wasn't endorsed and get a small glimpse of how utterly corrupt our politics have become. The Congressional Black Caucus presents itself as the "moral conscience" of our government, yet its PAC exemplifies so much of what is wrong with our withering democracy.

For thousands of years it has been said that one cannot faithfully serve two masters, yet we're supposed to believe that our politicians can be supported and bankrolled by tobacco companies, private prison lobbyists, payday lenders, and pharmaceutical companies and still serve our communities well. Surely we know better than that.

[SamKnause]

1. They will not.

They endorsed Hillary.

[eridani]

6. Donna Edwards is running for Senate, not the presidency

She hasn't endorsed anyone for president AFAIK. Why would she? Her prospective supporters are likely divided on that issue.

[arcane1]

2. A perfect summary, that no honest progressive could disagree with:

"For thousands of years it has been said that one cannot faithfully serve two masters, yet we're supposed to believe that our politicians can be supported and bankrolled by tobacco companies, private prison lobbyists, payday lenders, and pharmaceutical companies and still serve our communities well. Surely we know better than that."

[jaysunb]

8. +1 n/t

[Rebkeh]

3. "Cannot serve two masters," is exactly right. nt

[99th_Monkey]

4. This really is shameful.

It makes me very very sad to see this kind of insidious shit playing out,
corporatism run amok in DC .. polluting and corrupting otherwise well-
intentioned politicians. And they fall for it, because they believe they
don't have a choice, just to get re-elected.

[haikugal]

7. They need to join the revolution and help us change it back to for the people by the people.

[bravenak]

5. Will never happen

Its holding them to a different standard because of their blackness. This is why she falls flat other than her awesome book on Jim Crow. Academia and intelligencia see things differently than the masses.

[eridani]

10. Isn't it because of HER blackness? n/t

[appalachiablue]

9. Michelle Alexander is incredible, brave and right. Stop the corp. ties to human

misery merchant predators like the private prison and payday loan industries. Shameful.

[dembotoz]

11. i tend to trust ms alexander