Congressman Charlie Rangel and The Rent is Too Damn High Party

"I'm with Jimmy, The Rent is Too Damn High"

The November election, saw a lot of passionate and very pissed off white people eject their white elected officials from office,  replacing them with white people who mirrored their own "fire on Fort Sumter" views. Yes friends and neighbors, I'm talking about the Tea Party again. And while I don't respect their views, I do highly respect their passion and grassroots organizing ability. And while the Tea Party Juggernaut stole the media's complete unrivaled attention, I followed the New York Gubernatorial campaign of Jimmy McMillan,( see video above) the African-American eccentric founder of New York's "The Rent's too Damn High Party," which had only one issue, that "The Rent is Too Damn High" for poor and working class people in New York.


This was the only "movement" that even attempted to mirror the Tea Party's grassroots populist voice. And Jimmy Mc Millan is a lot more intelligent than Sarah Palin, but got no traction in the Black community, as "we" continued to elect the same tired poverty pimping politicians, even the most mired in the filth of corruption. Sadly, once someone is elected in the Black community, we will not vote them out no matter how far they stray, no matter how out of touch, or corrupt they become.


Congressmen Charles Rangel (D-New York),is a case and point. For the last 40 years Rangel continues to represent one of the poorest African-American districts in America, which besides for naturally occurring gentrification, not much has changed with his efforts.  As you can see the only thing he really gives to his poor constituents is turkey's during ThanksGiving, which typical of the old school poverty pimping politicians.
Meanwhile Congressmen Rangel has gotten progressively richer, including owning a beach front villa in the Dominican Republic, which he paid no taxes on for the last twenty years, because he "forgot" to. But for most of his constituents that are not homeless, "The Rent is Too Damn High!"


Even more insulting, with respect to "The Rent's To Damn High Party", Rangel lives ensconced in this two large rent controlled apartments that he combined into one big house. So while the Black Community in New York deals with homelessness, families barely being able to pay rent," The Rent is Too Damn High" and foreclosures, Congressmen Rangel continues to pimp a housing program designed for poor and working class people for his own lavish living.


When Congressmen Rangel finally got caught, he fought back like a cranky old lion claiming that he was being singled out unfairly because of the color of his skin. Once again, its the most privileged of Black people who play the race card, not the real victims of racism who suffer in silence. Then "Victim" Congressmen Rangel, at his own Congressional Ethics Hearing controlled by his own Democratic Party, instead of defending himself he simply walked out of the hearing, later he said he was too poor to afford a lawyer.


Then, after the committee confirmed his guilt, Congressmen Rangel had the temerity to actually cry on the U.S. House floor asking his fellow congresswomen/men to spare him of it's second harshest punishment, a verbal reprimand delivered to the offender in the well of the full house of represenatives. I guess this practice dates back to a time when men fought duels because they actually cared about honor.
 At no time was Congressmen Rangel expecting to be expelled from Congress- which he deserves- because the average tax cheat gets arrested. This is the type of leadership that the still sleep walking Black Community is saddled with.


Finally, to add salt to the gun shot wounds, several highly qualified candidates ran against Congressmen Rangel, during the height of his investigation, yet he was reelected again overwhelming. Well, old Abe Lincoln said that "people get the type of government they deserve", and I strongly believe this. And until the Black community, becomes enough like the Tea Party to get ride of our free loading politicians, then we will continue to be at the bottom of the well, with no body to blame but out selves. I just hope that the U.S. District Attorney indict Congressmen Rangel on Tax Evasion Charges.