Congressional Black Caucus Chairman: We Would Probably Be Marching on the White House if Obama Were Not President (Not The Onion!)

This is apparently true. Wow.

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman: We Would Probably Be Marching on the White House if Obama Were Not President

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, September 18, 2011

CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) told the Miamia Herald this week that unhappy members of the CBC would probably be marching on the White House if (black) Obama were not president.

The Hill reported:

Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).

“If [former President] Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House,” Cleaver told “The Miami Herald” in comments published Sunday. “There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.”

CBC members have expressed concern in recent months as the unemployment rate has continued to rise amongst African-Americans, pushing for Obama to do more to address the needs of vulnerable communities.

“We’re supportive of the president, but we getting tired, y’all,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said in August. “We want to give [Obama] every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is.”

Rather than targeting Obama’s leadership, many CBC members aimed their fire at the Tea Party movement over the summer’s congressional recess.