With friends like these…

Often, the only thing the Black Caucus can agree on is that they are black. A former Caucus chair likened his job to “herding cats.”

Some old wounds festered over Obama speaking at the Legislative Black Caucus’s annual gala April 13. Some senators – who happen to be on Hillary’s payroll – wanted her to speak, but they lost the fight. Obama lit up a crowd of over a 1,000 and made a bucket of money for the Caucus at $75 a head.

Sen. Darrell Jackson, whose Sunrise Enterprise is working for the Clinton campaign, is rumored to be soliciting a candidate to run against Caucus stalwart Gilda Cobb-Hunter for her Orangeburg House seat. Gilda’s not on any candidate’s payroll or bandwagon, and has made no secret that while she hasn’t endorsed a candidate, Hillary isn’t high on her list.

“We’ve got a lot of good Democratic candidates, and one of them is going to win, ” Gilda told a Progressive Caucus meeting Aug. 18. “We’re all going to have to work together to make it happen and it makes no sense to treat tomorrow’s allies as today’s enemies.”

Gilda is the conscience of the Black Caucus, as well as the backbone of the Legislature. There are powerful forces that wish Gilda would go away. There are pitiful forces that wish Gilda would disappear because she makes them look, in her words, “spinally challenged.”

Sen. Jackson needs to pick his enemies more carefully and tend to business in his own district.