Truest statement of the week II

The black political class has always been slavishly subservient to the Democratic party. They place its interests so far above their own that when the CBC members refused to demand or take part in hearings around the Katrina disaster almost a decade ago, even after it was clear that authorities intended to force the exile of more than one hundred thousand African Americans from the New Orleans area. Now that a black Democrat sits in the White House, cowardly CBC members would rather chew off their own feet than contradict him. After all, if a black president can be denounced by other black politicians, how safe are their own careers?

-- Bruce A. Dixon, "Time For The CBC and our Black Political Class Denounce Apartheid and Ethnocracy in Israel-Palestine" (Black Agenda Report).