Tancredo wants Black Caucus shut down
"It is utterly hypocritical for Congress to extol the virtues of a colorblind society while officially sanctioning caucuses that are based solely on race," said the Colorado Republican, who is most widely known as a vocal critic of illegal immigration.
Well, I say, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em; start a Caucasian Caucus. Of course, you know how that would go over. And Tancredo is the wrong guy for the message, since he's already been accused of being a racist.
The issue here is freedom of association. Congress believes that their members have a right to gather in race-oriented groups and to exclude members of other races. Indeed, freedom of association gives them that right. But they deny that right of free association to the general populace. If I decided not to rent the bottom of my duplex to purple people, I would have the National Association for the Avancement of Purple People filing a lawsuit. The further issue is that of Congress being above the laws they form for the rest of us. Maybe if Stephen Cohen took the uncollegial action of suing the Black Caucus for discrimination, something might change. Unfortunately, that something would probably be "Cohen's chances of re-election". But what's wrong with Congress following our rules?
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