"Racist" Budgeting

That's what the Congressional Black Caucus thinks of the budget cuts proposed by the new Republican majority.  Moreover, in order to highlight the "racism", they find it convenient to make the point on the very last day of Black History Month.

In addition to celebrating the many successes of African-Americans in this country, the single most important purpose of Black History Month is to force us all to remember, and never to forget, the genuine suffering endured by this race during our nation's now regrettable period when slavery and segregation were both tolerated and legal.  The Congressional Black Caucus is doing great harm to this cause.

By making such a baseless, fatuous, and irresponsible accusation of racism, in order, simply, to further their own partisan and ideological agenda, they continue to participate in turning what was once one of the most serious charges one American could level at another into little more than a vulgar, schoolyard-bully, epithet, the reaction to which is a mere roll of the eyes or shrug of the shoulders.

This is truly a crime and I pray it never comes back to haunt them.  For our country's sake, not theirs.