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<H2 class=date-header>Monday, April 03, 2006</H2>
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<H3 class=post-title>Cynthia McKinney: Victim of being in Congress while black
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both"></DIV>Could it be that one of my fondest wishes is
about to come true? According to the Al Jazeera-Constitution (er, excuse me, the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- can't imagine how I made that mistake),
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney may be arrested soon for her part in a recent
incident during which she allegedly struck a Capitol Police officer who tried to
stop her from going around a security checkpoint.
This has especial
relish for me since I am one of her many long-suffering constituents, which is
to say, a resident of her Congressional district who isn't among the
brain-damaged minions who actually voted for this crazy woman.
But first
things first. McKinney is said to have hit a Capitol Police officer in the chest
when he stopped her from entering the building without going through a metal
detector. As usual, and ever thumbing her nose at authority, she wasn't wearing
a lapel pin identifying her as a House member. For most of her colleagues that's
not too big a concession to make to "the Man" in exchange for a little security.
But then most of her colleagues aren't hopeless racial victimhood addicts whose
perception of "the Man" involves white robes and pointed
hoods.
McKinney's lawyer, James Myart Jr., whose every word was as
predictable as the movements of the stars in the firmament, said this: "Ms.
McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black."
I don't want
to say that strains credulity, but if black folks are really being mistreated
for "being in Congress while black," then one would expect to see members of the
Congressional Black Caucus getting gang-tackled on a regular basis by racist
security officers. Funny thing is, I haven't heard about any complaints from any
of them.
"Congresswoman McKinney," Myart said further, " in a hurry, was
essentially chased and grabbed by the officer. She reacted instinctively in an
effort to defend herself."
The problem with McKinney "reacting
instinctively" is that the Congresswoman is a walking, talking bundle of racial
paranoia and emotional pathologies on an interminable hunt for any excuse to
accuse someone of racism. For such a person to react instinctively is rife with
ugly possibilities.
So ate up with this malady is she that she once said
that "Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never seen
him around more than one at a time." I don't know what the context was, but is
it even possible there could have been one such that the statement was anything
other than crazy?
One can only imagine what important business she was in
such a rush to get to when security stopped her. Here's a couple of examples of
the kinds of urgent matters she's dealt with for the American people in the last
year or so:
1.) She chaired a Congressional hearing last year "on whether
the Bush administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
2001."
2.) Introduced into the House of Representatives the Tupac Shakur
Records Release Act of 2006 "for the purpose of fully informing the American
people about the history surrounding the life and death of [gangster rapper]
Tupac Amaru Shakur."
In addition, she has long been known for things like
advocating for disastrous Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, cozying up with and
receiving campaign donations from all kinds of terrorist sympathizers, favoring
Palestinians over Israelis and for having a blatantly anti-Semitic father in the
Georgia State Legislature whose prejudices may have rubbed off on her.
If
anybody's a victim, it's her rational constituents who didn't vote for her and
are sick and tired of being embarrassed by this wack job who is an utter
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