“The Congressional Black Caucus cannot support legislation benefiting major athletic institutions that continue to remain silent while Black voting rights and Black political power are being systematically dismantled across the South,” their statement said. “The Congressional Black Caucus has transmitted formal letters to SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, ACC Commissioner James J. Phillips, Ph.D., and NCAA President Charlie Baker demanding immediate engagement and a public response regarding the ongoing assault on Black political representation throughout the South and across the nation.”

This is, of course, unethical as well as undemocratic. For elected officials to take the position that they won’t support any measures citizens want or need until those citizens promise to be allies of policies that the elected official want for their own benefit stands public service on its metaphorical head. Such conduct is not even that unusual for the explicitly racist caucus. (Would a Congressional White Caucus be regarded as anything but openly racist? Of course not.) As I reminded readers here, the Democrats have increasingly forfeited all integrity to pander to the Congressional Black Caucus, which I described as “a single issue bloc that cares only about political (and financial) advantages for its all-progressive, mostly racist, disturbingly incompetent and corrupt members.” After President Biden made it clear to anyone not as senile as he was in his single ill-starred debate with then-candidate Donald Trump that Joe’s brain was Cool Whip, members of the Caucus issued absurd defenses of Biden—that is, lies. He was over-prepared, he just had a “bad night,” one bad debate doesn’t cancel out four wonderful years, and worse. The CBC as a group announced that it was unanimously behind Joe as the candidate (because a rutabaga that automatically does the group’s bidding is a preferable President to a clear-thinking POTUS who prefers what is in the best interests of the American public as whole.)

Ironically, the CDC’s unethical, self-indicting conduct today explains what racial gerrymandering has wrought. These are bad, unqualified, self-interested, arrogant and unethical members of Congress, too many of whom behave and speak in ways so narrowly focused on perpetuating racial bias that they constitute a blight on American values and ideals.

Wait: all of them, Jack? Well, has any member broken ranks on the groups’ use of extortion to force support for more illegal districting?

There’s your answer.