The Business Of Being Black In Washington.

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 01:48 PM  | 

Charlie Rangel has been in the US Congress for 39 years. Maxine Waters has been there for 19 years. Clearly too long for both of them. It’s a fact that, for almost that long, being black and in government meant being bullet-proof and untouchable. One notable exception would be former Congressman William Jefferson, who is cooling his heels in the federal penitentiary for bribery and | Read More »