Zenitha Prince, Washington AFRO
- Are seven investigations too many to be a coincidence?
All seven of the full-scale ethics investigations currently underway in the U.S. House of Representatives are focused on African-American lawmakers—and it would be eight if the committee conducting the investigations hadn’t deferred to the Justice Department’s investigation involving Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
The disparity is beginning to raise some eyebrows.
“I don’t think they (Black lawmakers) are scared—they’re upset. They think [Congressional Black Caucus] members are being singled out,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told the AFRO.
“I can’t say there is an agenda behind this – I just don’t know,” Cummings said. “But when you have 435 members of Congress and the only ones under full-scale investigations are CBC members, it makes you wonder.”
