Cynthia McKinney, a black Congresswoman elected by the clearly delusional people of metropolitan Atlanta, punched someone last week. That someone happened to be a Capitol Hill security guard who asked that she go through the metal detector. Apparently, there is a policy that members of Congress don’t have to pass through security checkpoints. (Yes, the non-blown-up-ness of the U.S. Capitol rests on tiny pieces of metal. Then again, if you’re a Guy Fawkes fan, maybe this is a good thing in your opinion.) Regardless, the guard didn’t recognize her and tried to stop her, so she cold-cocked him. Naturally, she claims that she was being racially profiled by the bigoted Capitol Hill Police because she is African-American. She even got Danny Glover to hold a press conference with her, crying racism despite the fact that, um, she punched out a security guard at the Capitol building. Criminal charges were filed yesterday in the incident.
Following this so far?
The fact of the matter is that this woman is paranoid at best and evil at worst. Honestly, the only reason race is still such a dominant factor in American politics (outside of some pockets of the rural South that persistently refuse to enter the 20th century, let alone the 21st) is because minorities seek to make it an issue at any available opportunity. This incident has absolutely nothing to do with race and everyone with a straight face knows that, but now the Capitol Hill Police are a bunch of racist thugs because, um, they were doing their jobs.
This isn’t the first time McKinney has used her position and race in ridiculously irresponsible ways. Here’s some lovely gems from a Slate magazine article:
* In 1996, she called the entire Republican Party “a ragtag group of neo-Confederates.” Her Republican opponent in the Congressional race, naturally, was Jewish.
* In the mid-1990s, when her Congressional district was declared unconstitutional, due to the fact that it was essentially shaped like a 250 mile-long snake designed to lump as many blacks in Georgia together as possible, she compared the decision to the Dred Scott case and Plessy v. Ferguson.
* From the 2000 presidential campaign: “Al Gore’s Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I’ve never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.” As the article notes, his campaign manager was an African-American woman, Donna Brazile.
* In 2001, she remarked that, “[W]hen it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.” This, of course, during a time where arguably the two most important foreign policy advisors to President Bush were black (Powell & Rice).
The fact of the matter is that this woman is adding to racial strife, rather than subtracting from it — and putting national security at risk (as this declining nation is, as of now, rather pathetically dependent on Washington). That’s an interesting combination, don’t you think?
<ADDED – 2:00 pm> While on the topic of race, we have word that the Virginia Beach Police Department has settled a discriminatory hiring practices lawsuit started by the Department of Justice and will compensate blacks who were adversely affected a total of $160,000. So what was the grave injustice?
Recruits had to pass a math test.
*bangs head against nearby desk*
