However, the Black delegation to the U.S. Congress from Florida is
nothing for any Black person to be proud off. All three Black Caucus
members from the state – Corrine Brown, Frederica Wilson, and Alcee
Hastings – signed on as co-sponsors
of the Venezuela sanctions bill. Once again, the Black Misleadership
Class shames 40 million African Americans with their slavish devotion to
the imperial powers-that-be. Venezuela is overwhelmingly a black and
brown country struggling to overcome centuries of racist internal rule
and national subjugation to the will of the White Colossus in the North.
The brown Obama is no better, nor are the sycophants of the
Congressional Black Caucus, whose notions of solidarity begin and end
with a checkbook.
If Venezuela’s sovereignty and dignity are to be preserved, it will
be through their own efforts and the determination of South Americans to
run their own affairs, to act in the spirit of Chavez, and the
still-living example of Fidel.
-- Glen Ford, "Black Caucus Members Shame Themselves, as South America Warns U.S. Not to Sanction Venezuela" (Black Agenda Report).