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Va. General Assembly wrestles with race, ideology after Republican is rejected from B
Va. General Assembly wrestles with race, ideology after Republican is rejected from Black Caucus
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Tensions over race and party erupted this week when the lone Black Republican in the House of Delegates, A.C. Cordoza of Hampton, stood and accused the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus of excluding him because he disagreed with a liberal agenda.
“The questions for entry had little to do with being Black and had more to do with being leftist,” said Cordoza, who won in November by fewer than 100 votes in what had seemed a safe Democratic seat.
His floor speech Thursday laid bare an uncomfortable set of questions around race and ideology, the outgrowth of a phenomenon so rare that the State Capitol has seen it only a handful of times in the past century: Black Republicans.
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, a Jamaican immigrant and the first woman of color elected statewide in Virginia history, took issue with the caucus’s vote on Twitter on Friday morning.
“We’re trying to start a new caucus. Name suggestions?” she tweeted. “The You’re Not Black Enough Caucus. The No More Division Caucus. The Welcome Caucus. The Let’s Do Away With Caucuses Caucus. The FRIEND Caucus.”
But other Black lawmakers shot back Friday that the problem with Cordoza was less about ideology and more about interpersonal friction.
“I don’t think his response to the questionnaire had much to do with … why he didn’t receive enough votes,” said Del. Lamont Bagby (D-Henrico), chairman of the Black Caucus, referring to a survey new members must fill out before joining.
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The bolded, red part is EXACTLY the point Cordoza was making...It is NOT a "black caucus"...It is a "Think like us!" caucus...  
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