Managers Of The Plantation: Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)

 



 “The Failure of the Congressional Black Caucus”

Ladies and gentlemen, let me get straight to it.

The Congressional Black Caucus — the CBC — has mastered the art of symbolism. They’ll throw on Kente cloth for a photo op. They’ll kneel for eight minutes. They’ll quote scripture, invoke the ancestors, and talk about progress.

But when Black women are dying in hospitals?
When Black families are being displaced?
When Black workers are being undercut?
When Black communities are being caged, ignored, and politically sacrificed?

Crickets.

And that silence… is not an accident.
It’s the design.

The CBC sells itself as “the conscience of Congress.”
But the truth is simple:
They do not have Black America’s back. They have the Democratic Party’s back.
And there is a massive difference between those two things.

Black Maternal Mortality: A National Emergency

Right now, Black women in America are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. In 2024. In the richest nation on Earth.

That’s not a statistic — that’s a slow-motion genocide.

And we saw it in Dallas, where a Black mother begged for help while hospital staff worked on paperwork.
We saw it in Chicago, where a woman in contractions a minute apart was sent home — and gave birth eight minutes later in a car on the side of the road.

Where was the CBC?
Where were the press conferences?
Where were the emergency hearings?
Where was the legislation tying hospital funding to racial equity?

Nowhere.
Nowhere at all.




Because Black maternal mortality doesn’t fit neatly into the Democratic Party’s talking points.
And when an issue is specific to Black Americans?
The CBC goes silent.

Mass Incarceration

Right now, there are more Black people in cages than were enslaved in 1850.

Where’s the comprehensive CBC legislation to dismantle this system?
Where’s the refusal to fund the prison industrial complex?
Where’s the courage to defund and abolish?

Instead, the CBC backs:

  • Tough-on-crime Democrats
  • Budgets that expand policing
  • Incremental reforms that tinker around the edges

But abolition? Transformation? Radical change?

Silence.

Black Workers and Immigration

Let’s be honest — immigration policy affects Black workers.
Construction, hospitality, service industries:
the very jobs where Black Americans have historically found opportunity.

When you flood those markets with workers who can be exploited for below minimum wage, wages fall, opportunities shrink, and Black workers get pushed out.

The CBC won’t touch this.
Because the Democratic Party needs immigrant votes.
So Black livelihood becomes a political sacrifice.

So What Do We Do?

We change the game.

1. Primary Them

Run Black candidates who are accountable to Black communities, not to the Democratic Party.

2. Build Independent Black Power

Outside the two-party system:

  • Political education
  • Media
  • Community organizing
  • Economic cooperatives

3. Demand Deliverables

No more vibes.
No more symbolism.

Thank-you







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