US Rep. Cleaver says Obama can't address Black unemployment because the 'extreme right' would say he's giving preferential treatment to them

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US Rep. Cleaver incites racial hatred, tells Blacks they remain unemployed because Obama is in a tough spot, can't help them because he would be criticized by 'the extreme right.'

1/16/12, "Rep. Cleaver: White President Could Be Pushed More Than What We Would Push Obama To Do," Real Clear Politics

On MSNBC, 1/16/12, "Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri) on getting something done about high black unemployment:

At around :20 Cleaver says: Blacks must understand that if Obama did more to address black unemployment (which he earlier says is at "near Depression levels") he "would be tagged by the extreme right, not the Republicans, the extreme right, as giving African Americans preferential treatment."

"A white president, frankly, could be pushed a great deal more than we would push President Obama because nobody would accuse him or her of having partiality towards African-Americans. So its a tough spot and it also mean we still have a long way to go in terms of race relations in this country and the President has, I think, moved through these troubled waters about as well as any African-American could become the first black president."

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7/29/11, Cleaver has used this line before, that blacks can't expect Obama to help them because he'd be criticized for doing so and this would give ammunition to his enemies. Liberal commentators at Young Turks criticize Rep. Cleaver for his defense of Obama, say it isn't that Obama has done too little, it's that he has done the opposite of what he said he'd do.

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9/18/11, "Cleaver: If Obama wasn't president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’," The Hill, A. Cohn

"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. Waters said in a public meeting in her district that the Tea Party "can go straight to hell." Another member, Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), called the Tea Party “the real enemy” seeking to hold Congress “hostage.”

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), the only Republican member of the CBC and also a member of the Tea Party Caucus, objected to hostile language used by members targeting the Tea Party movement and threatened to leave the caucus unless Cleaver condemned remarks made by other members. West singled out comments from Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), the CBC’s whip, who said that Tea Party-affiliated members of Congress see African-Americans as "second-class citizens" and would be happy to see them "hanging from a tree."

Cleaver persuaded West to remain a member of the caucus, with West indicating later that one reason he decided to stay was that the CBC membership needed a conservative presence.
“I will not be resigning from the Congressional Black Caucus,” West wrote on his Facebook following a meeting with Cleaver at the beginning of September. “Cowards run from challenges, while warriors run to the sound of battle.”

According to West, he is working with Cleaver to produce a plan to confront the rate for unemployment amongst African-Americans, which at 16.7 percent is nearly double the rate nationwide.

Cleaver acknowledged that some of the things members of his caucus say might not be in the best interests of the “aggressive agenda” he said he is seeking to develop as chairman.

“Maxine Waters represents central Los Angeles first and she has to represent her constituents first and she's going to say things in order to represent them,” he said."



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