Comments on: Playing the World’s Smallest Violin for Rep. Charlie Rangel

By: Violin Playing

Violin Playing — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:44:04 +0000

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By: Justin Bowen

Justin Bowen — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:46:01 +0000

Well, it seems as though I was pretty close on what the punishment would be. The ethics committee is basically recommending that he get yelled at by a colleague.

By: Stephen Littau

Stephen Littau — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:11:37 +0000

Justin:

I’ve looked around the website as well. From what I can tell, his sun down town research is still ongoing.

I don’t mind if he has an axe to grind provided he can back his claims up with evidence (I have several axes to grind myself).

I have also read another book by the same author entitled “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.” http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/liesmyteachertoldme.php so I am familiar with his work (a very though provoking book to be sure).

By: Justin Bowen

Justin Bowen — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:13:15 +0000

Stephen, While I won't deny that "sun down towns" existed and probably still do exist, I have serious doubts about the intellectual integrity of the owner of that website (who is also the author of a book on the same subject). The few examples of his work that I've seen lead me to believe that he's sacrificed accuracy and impartiality for the purposes of attracting attention or grinding some axe.

By: Justin Bowen

Justin Bowen — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:57:20 +0000

I can see the punishment now: a $5 fine and he can’t chair a committee for a month.

It really is about time for legislators to stop policing themselves.

By: Stephen Littau

Stephen Littau — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:33:30 +0000

This post wasn’t intended to begin a discussion about race. This is about 1 man who has been found guilty of ethics violations. End of story.

By: Stephen Littau

Stephen Littau — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:28:48 +0000

@ Glenn So these charges against Rangel are all trumped up by a bunch of racist Southerners (Democrat and Republican) who wouldn’t otherwise bring these charges if he were white? It couldn’t be that there might be something to these charges. It couldn’t be that they actually expect their own members to follow their own rules. Seems to me that you have an anti-South bias (which is apparently OK and perfectly PC). You might be interested in learning though, there were more “sun down towns” in the North than the South. People in the North are just a racist (if not more so) than people in the South (for what it’s worth). Having said that, people are more tolerant now than they ever have been.

By: Glenn Goodman

Glenn Goodman — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:58:42 +0000

5 of each party in this “committee” 7 of whom are from the south, routinely catch Black Congress members drinking from the “Whites only” drinking fountain.

We should have let the South secede!

By: Stephen Littau

Stephen Littau — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:46:42 +0000

Linda:

See charge 11.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:19:18 +0000

I thought Rangel took money from his PAC to pay legal fees (which is illegal, as well)? And Rangel has had one month since he and his legal team parted ways, to secure new legal assistance. Rangel is rich enough to have multiple apartments in New York, but he’s crying poverty? He wears expensive suits, so I’m not buying his poverty claim. And doesn’t he have a law background? Couldn’t he have defended himself?

If we, the great unwashed peons, walk out of court when we are defendants, can we not be tried in absentia? Why should the high muckety-muck elitist Congressman be any different?