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Black's Preferential By IRS

Mike

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IRS Gave Black Nonprofits Preferential Treatment
Investors.com | 9-6-13 | Paul Sperry


At the same time the IRS harassed Republican nonprofit groups during the 2012 political campaign, it selectively advised black churches and other Democrat nonprofits on how far they can go in campaigning for President Obama and other Democrats.

This raw exercise in political favoritism has not been reported in the context of the still-smoldering IRS scandal, in which the agency in 2012 audited big GOP donors and blocked Tea Party groups trying to obtain tax-exempt status as part of what House investigators suspect was an effort to re-elect the president.

But that same year, top officials with both the IRS and Justice Department — including the IRS commissioner and attorney general — met in Washington with several dozen prominent black church ministers representing millions of voters to brief them on how to get their flocks out to vote without breaking federal tax laws.

The "summit" on energizing the black vote in houses of worship was hosted by the Democrat-controlled Congressional Black Caucus inside the U.S. Capitol on May 30, 2012.

The day before the special IRS training session, then-Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver predicted Obama would get 95% of the African-American vote — but only if black pastors "encourage" them to get to the polls. (He ended up getting over 93% of the black vote.)

IRS Goes To Church

At the time, many African-Americans were unhappy that Obama came out in support of gay marriage. So Democrats gathered them in Washington for a "pep talk," which included assurances their tax exemption would be safe if they helped deliver the vote.

It's not clear if the White House helped organize the unusual event, but two key Cabinet members — Attorney General Eric Holder and IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman — both spoke at length to the black church leaders.
 

Tom in TN

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Mike,

I attend and participate in church regularly. I'm Caucasian and most of the people in my home church are Caucasian. However, I have a good friend who is black and is the pulpit preacher of a church that is 99.9% black. I like to attend that church when I can. The people are gracious, the preaching is edifying, and the Spirit is evident.

Having said that, the one thing about the church that I don't like is the bulletin board in the foyer. It is completely dedicated to President Obama, Mrs. Obama, the NAACP, schedules of rallies oriented toward advanicing "black" issues, and announcements of ways to aid the black politicians in the state and on the national level.

I wish they wouldn't do that, but they do. I've never seen a predominantly Caucasian church that did anything like that.

Tom in TN
 

Traveler

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Tom in TN said:
Mike,

I attend and participate in church regularly. I'm Caucasian and most of the people in my home church are Caucasian. However, I have a good friend who is black and is the pulpit preacher of a church that is 99.9% black. I like to attend that church when I can. The people are gracious, the preaching is edifying, and the Spirit is evident.

Having said that, the one thing about the church that I don't like is the bulletin board in the foyer. It is completely dedicated to President Obama, Mrs. Obama, the NAACP, schedules of rallies oriented toward advanicing "black" issues, and announcements of ways to aid the black politicians in the state and on the national level.

I wish they wouldn't do that, but they do. I've never seen a predominantly Caucasian church that did anything like that.

Tom in TN
A White church would lose it's tax exempt status. A Mosque probably has nothing to worry about, as well.
 
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