Who Said 13 Is Lucky?
Playing victim is far too much fun to change, which is why 13 of the maddest, shallowest minds in Washington organized in 1969, Shirley Chisholm, William L. Clay Sr., George W. Collins, John Conyers, Ron Dellums, Augustus F. Hawkins, Ralph Metcalfe, Parren Mitchell, Robert Nix, Charlie Rangel, Louis Stokes and Washington D.C. Delegate Walter Fauntroy. Call ‘em black rednecks. Like seals, they have been trained to believe that the disease is far more rewarding than a cure. They flick away the staggering institutional and attitudinal changes that have trumped American society as if they were a single horsefly perched on their upturned noses. Which brings us to last week when seven of the Caucus’s thinnest minds flew off to the 50-year prison that is Cuba — presumably on purpose —to show the Castro Boys that some members of Congress should not be allowed outdoors without a minder nearby. Since 1959, the Castro Boys have run one of the most repressive regimes on the planet. When you live i
