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Are Black Congressional Lawmakers Being Singled Out In Ethics Probes?

This only happens to blacks. No Caucasian has ever been ousted from Congress. 

What do we learn from this? When your back is against the wall and there's nowhere to turn whip out the race card. Lets take them in order of appearance.

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A day after longtime Philadelphia Congressman Chaka Fattah was indicted by the federal government on charges that he and a group of associates were involved in a racketeering conspiracy, listeners of a show on the only African-American owned and operated talk radio station in Pennsylvania called to express suspicion.

On Thursday, WURD’s Nick Taliaferro told NewsOne Now host Roland S. Martin that listeners to The Nick Taliaferro Show tend to be suspicious about “any type of governmental action against an elected official who happens to be Black.” While they are aware of the possibility of “human culpability” by Black elected officials, said Taliaferro, they also believe that “the government has found itself on the shadier side of prosecutions when it comes to Black officials.”

“This has been an eight-year effort by some in the Department of Justice to link my public service career to some form of wrongdoing,” Fattah said in a statement. The subtext being that he was targeted. Was he?

Seems like he's trying to twist his suspicious activity into targeting... if he wasn't involved in any wrongdoing then he shouldn't have anything to worry about right? 

The National Journal reported in 2012 that about one-third of sitting Black lawmakers have been named in an ethics probe during their time in office. And very few members hold ranking positions.

The facts say this: African-Americans make up 10 percent of the House, but as of the end of February, five of the sitting six named lawmakers under review by the House Ethics Committee are black. The pattern isn’t new. At one point in late 2009, seven lawmakers were known to be involved in formal House ethics inquiries; all were members of the Congressional Black Caucus. An eighth caucus member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois, had also been under investigation, but his probe was halted temporarily while the Justice Department undertook an inquiry of its own.

The real fact is blacks commit the most crimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States

In interviews with more than a dozen members of the CBC, an unsettling thread emerges: They feel targeted. There could be no other explanation, many said, for what they see as disproportionate treatment at the hands of ethics investigators. They describe a disquieting reality of being black in Congress today: a feeling that each move they make is unfairly scrutinized. “We all feel threatened,” said Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, as he sat by the fireplace off the House floor. “If the only reason that you would suffer a complaint is because of your skin color, that is a cause for concern.”

Is Hank Johnson a crook? I don't know. But he certainly is an imbecile! Go here and you won't believe what you're hearing. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q

There should be a test before being allowed to vote.

Fattah, a member of Congress since 1995, said Wednesday that he was stepping down as the ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science. It is one of the most powerful positions in Congress.

Black lawmakers have not fared well on the House appropriations committee. Before Fattah, former Michigan Democratic Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick, who served as head of the Congressional Black Caucus, unexpectedly lost a re-election primary in 2010. In 2006, former Louisiana Democratic Rep. Bill Jefferson was removed from the committee and is now serving time in prison on charges of corruption.

This is why she was "targeted". 

She could have been involved... it's as simple as that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Cheeks_Kilpatrick

Kilpatrick was married to Bernard Nathaniel Kilpatrick, with whom she has daughter Ayanna and son Kwame Kilpatrick, former Mayor of Detroit. Both her former husband and son were on trial, under an 89-page felony indictment. On March 11, 2013, her son was found guilty on 24 of 30 federal charges and her former spouse was found guilty on 1 of 4 federal charges.

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William Jefferson, Ex-Congressman, Gets 13 Years In Freezer Cash Case

Doesn't everybody keep $90,000 wrapped in foil and hidden in boxes of frozen pie crusts in their freezer? I guess you could say he had frozen assets.

And longtime New York City Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel, who was censured 2010, stepped down from another powerful position as chairman of Ways & Means Committee in 2009 on charges of ethics violations. Although Rangel was not indicted, he has not ascended to another powerful position.

In the face of an ethics probe, Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., resigned from Congress in 2012. On February 20, 2013, he pleaded guilty to one count of wire and mail fraud and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison in August of that year.

Some congressional lawmakers have been able to beat back accusations of wrongdoing, including Rep. Maxine Waters, who was cleared in 2012 after an investigation described by The Atlantic as rife with “intraparty squabbles, allegations of racism and bitter personal rivalries.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rangel

Of all the people mentioned in this article Rangel is the worst. He should have been in jail alongside Wesley Snipes. He got off with a slap on the wrist thanks to a Democratic controlled House. 

Jesse Jackson Jr admitted his crimes and got a lousy 30 months. He was involved up to his eyeballs in the Blago scam of selling Barry's old seat.

Pure and simple Walters funneled stimulus money to her husband's bank. The Republicans didn't have the balls to do anything about it. 

It will be interesting to observe how the Fattah indictment plays out. Meanwhile, the question remains, are Black congressional lawmakers being targeted unfairly.



According to this article all you need to know is they were targeted. The fact they were investigated and for the most part found guilty has no bearing on it.

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