Congressional Black Caucus chose not to meet with a single dissident in Cuba!

Will someone save the Congressional Black Caucus?
NY Daily News - BY Josh Greenman - April 17th 2009

With a former member of the Congressional Black Caucus leading the nation, the CBC could be wielding historic influence. It would be welcome: The raging recession is hitting blacks especially hard, and two issues of supreme importance to African-Americans, education and health care, are taking center stage.
What a shame, then, that the group has become something of a sideshow of late.
Look at how the Black Caucus has made headlines this month. First, by making a high-profile visit to Cuba. Then, by taking Obama to task for sitting out a UN conference, the followup to a 2001 gathering that declared Zionism to be racist.
Now there's nothing wrong with visiting Cuba and nothing sacrosanct about America's economic embargo. But you can rationally question U.S. Cuba policy without cozying up to Castro. The CBC did the latter - failing to meet with a single dissident on an island with a record of making dissidents disappear and handing El Jefe his best press in years.
"\[Fidel Castro\] looked directly into my eyes, and then he asked: 'How can we help President Obama?' " said Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.), unintentionally recalling George Bush's comically naive assessment of Vladimir Putin. "He really wants President Obama to succeed."
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) did Richardson one better. "It was almost like listening to an old friend," said Rush. "In my household, I told Castro, he is known as the ultimate survivor."
The human rights record in Castro's Cuba is not open to legitimate political debate. In its 2008 world report, the left-leaning human rights group Human Rights Watch said, "Cuba remains the one country in Latin American that represses nearly all forms of political dissent. . . . (continues...)