Black Caucus of Hamden, Connecticut

BCHC Mission Statement – The mission of the Black Caucus of Hamden Connecticut is to inform and encourage public policy debate through analysis, research, and dialogue. The BCHC is committed to promoting the political, social, educational, and economic interests of Hamden black residents and seeks to recruit, develop, and mentor leaders who aspire to the fulfillment of this mission.

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Malcolm X

“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

Martin Luther King

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians, or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream – a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property, widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.