You have to love the hypocrisy of the Democrat Party's House Negroes from the Congressional Black Caucus. They bitched and moaned about the allegedly unconscionable length of time it took FEMA to respond to Hurricane Katrina (local resources are to respond for the first 72 hours), but they won't be spending any of the money they raised to help with the recovery for at least another month or two.

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which slammed the Bush administration for its allegedly slow and racially insensitive response to Hurricane Katrina, has yet to spend any of the estimated $400,000 that it raised for the victims of the Aug. 29 storm.

"We are collecting all the way up through the very end of the year and then our board has set aside a committee who is going to administer the funds," Patty Rice, spokeswoman for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), told Cybercast News Service on Wednesday. The Foundation is an offshoot of the Congressional Black Caucus and was founded in 1976.

In other words, no money is going out until sometime in January or February -- a shocking FIVE MONTHS after Hurrican Katrina hit the city.

But one interesting detail that might be overlooked is the early claims oabout the amount raised by the CBC.

The CBCF then launched its own relief fund on Sept. 21, with a stated goal of raising $1 million to help Gulf Coast residents rebuild their lives. As Cybercast News Service previously reported, the CBCF claimed immediate success, telling reporters on Sept. 21 that it had already received $700,000 in corporate pledges.

But on Wednesday, exactly three months after the news conference launching the CBCF relief fund, Rice told Cybercast News Service that the Foundation has actually raised "somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 to $400,000." She added that the distribution of the money would not begin until January or February of 2006 at the earliest.

So what happened to the rest of the money, folks? Was it misappropriated by the CBC for political chicanery? Or are we simply looking at a situation where The CBC Lied And People Died? Neither would surprise me -- they did the bidding of their DNC white masters by shucking and jiving for the television cameras, spinning the disaster as an example of Bush Administration racism.

I think we all know what is going on here. They will eventually get around to giving the money to a few politically connected black firms, which will then donate it all back to Black Caucus members. Call it the typical graft engaged in by the Democrats -- the kind that rarely gets prosecuted and gets overlooked by the MSM.

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