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April 11, 2006
Cynthia McIdiot
Wow, the mice were busy while this cat was away, weren't they? Three idiots were busy making noise while I was gone; you'll pardon me if I am a little behind, but when stupid people do stupid things, you can't expect me not to comment, can you?
Take Cynthia McKinney. What a total idiot. This woman is an embarrassment to her people -- the American people. McKinney did more damage this past couple of weeks than any brain-dead redneck with a confederate flag and a hood could do.
Racism exists in this country. There are still signs of it everywhere -- from the overt, like the disproportionate application of the death penalty to black defendants, to the more subtle, like glances or treatment that black customers still get in stores. But a security officer doing his job at a security checkpoint is not racism. Stopping a person at a security checkpoint who is not wearing the proper ID (the members' lapel pin) is not racism. Calling to the person three times before placing a hand on her arm is not racism. And no matter how much faux outrage McKinney tries to spew about the kind of respect and treatment she believes she is entitled to, what that security officer did -- especially in the post-9/11 era -- is never going to be racism. It's always going to be "doing what he was supposed to do."
At McKinney's press conference, when she was laughably telling her version of the story, when she tried to play her drama card and spit out the words, "me... a female... black... Congresswoman," you could hear crickets chirp. No one bought it. And worse yet, McKinney and her "oh no he dih-int" attitude were just reinforcing every negative stereotype that the uninformed and racist among us want to have. She just gave them a poster child to confirm every piece of slop that they want to spew. And she just made it that much harder when real, honest to goodness cases of racism occur, for the skeptical out there to take it seriously or really explore it. McKinney has cried wolf, and done a tremendous disservice to all Americans in doing so, no matter our color. As one newspaper put it,
Cynthia McKinney's cheapening of race discrimination just made the fight against it harder. Thanks, congresswoman.
For the record, lady, you hit a cop. Doesn't matter what the circumstances were, you hit a cop. That's a no-no -- a big one. I hope the grand jury indicts this trash, and I hope she gets a jail sentence for assault. I've long since lost faith in the American public's ability to show judgement -- Tom DeLay got re-elected every year, and people still treat Al Sharpton like he's a serious person, for example -- so I won't place my faith in the citizens of Georgia's 12th district to remove the McKinney cancer from the Congress. I'll just believe that the grand jury will do its job. But one way or the other, McKinney needs to go.
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