California Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters is in hot water with her peers - democrats and republicans. So what to do? Pull out the race card, of course.
Waters, a member of the House Black Caucus, charges her peers are targeting members of that caucus because fellow democrat and Black Caucus founding member, Charles Rangel of New York, is also facing charges of even more serious ethics violations.
Since the investigations of Rangel and Waters have taken months, this is not a coincidence of skin color, but a coincidence of bad behavior by two people who just happen to be African-American.
In Waters case, she helped direct 12-million dollars in TARP bailout funds to a bank where her husband, Sidney Williams, served on the board, and in which he had a sizable financial interest, estimated at up to a million dollars at one time.
The bank is OneUnited, the first Black-founded internet bank.
Waters did this even though she sits on the powerful House Financial Services Committee, chaired by Barney Franks. Franks has said publicly he warned her not to use her influence to secure the TARP funds.
She apparently ignored his advice.
May I remind Waters of the advice of another prominent American, Dr. Martin Luther King, who said in his immortal "I have a dream" speech - that African-Americans should be judged not by "the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
That was Dr. King's hope for his own children, but it should be a rule by which we all live.
Waters has betrayed the values of Dr. King and so many others, Black and White, who suffered to bring equal rights for all minorities. The color of a person's skin should never be an excuse for wrongdoing.
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