Saturday, April 08, 2006

Cynthia McKinney's Capitol Offense

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  1. I was disappointed to see that McKinney was abandoned by almost everyone. I think that McKinney is just not far enough to the Right for the Democrats. Also, I think I remember a recent report about Cindy Sheehan being roughly “handled” by the police when she was being removed from Congress.

    Posted by rosemarie from  on  04/08  at  04:52 PM

  2. Mark,

    You left out one very important piece of information in your interpretation of the event, the police officer shouted three times for Ms. McKinny to stop.  If this is true, and I’ve not read anything that disputes this, then grabbing her on the shoulder is neither out of line nor inappropriate.  I’ll even go so far as to say shouting or not shouting, a grab on the shoulder is appropriate in this situation.  No tackling, no choking, no guns pulled, just a “hold on there a minute, not so fast.” I’d expect the same if it were you or I.

    Posted by Ray-Ray from Los Angeles  on  04/08  at  10:41 PM

  3. It is both true that “Her fellow Democrats would love to see McKinney once again drummed out of Congress” and “she’s willing to do business with the devil as a member of the U.S. Congress.”

    That said, I suggest that she should not only have not apologized, she might have considered taking the opportunity afforded her by the incident to maybe get a little bit sensationalist about the lack of Democrats’ concern about an obvious affront to her dignity as a good excuse to eventually become an independent or to invest her energies in building a 3rd party.

    Posted by Theo from Greece  on  04/08  at  11:17 PM

  4. There are 432 Representatives (I looked it up) and 100 Senators.  Certainly no one can expect the police to recognize all of them.  Ms. McKinney walked by the metal detector without stopping, and without wearing her Congressional ID, as she is required to do. 

    It was wrong of her to expect to be recognized.  It was wrong of her to fail to wear her ID.  It was wrong of her to punch the policeman.  Finally, it was wrong, disgraceful and disgusting for her to claim racism when the policeman was just trying to do his job.  It shows a lack of emotional maturity and a lack of political judgment on her part. 

    You say she “allegedly” punched the policeman.  Is there really anyone involved who denies that she did it?

    Posted by Andrew from  on  04/08  at  11:36 PM

  5. Andrew: everybody knows who she is and nobody likes her there where she works because she is a minor ideological threat to the Republicatic status quo with a history of not toeing the party line. Personally, I suspect she was singled out and possibly with the intention of provoking her into losing her cool. Which she did. Of course one’ll respond, “That’s absurd! People don’t gang up on dissidents like that.” But guess what? They do.

    Posted by Theo from Greece  on  04/08  at  11:59 PM

  6. God forbid CNN’s O’Brien, in your words “focus solely on the facts of the scuffle and not the issue of racial and political profiling”. Well that’s just bad reporting - focusing on the facts. You really need help.

    Posted by Reasonable Man from Seattle  on  04/09  at  03:05 AM

  7. Ray-Ray #2: Yes, I agree that McKinney should have stopped after being shouted at three times. But I also think the police officer should have run in front of her to demand ID rather than grabbing her from behind. Unless the person is visibly carrying weapons, this should be the policy of the Capitol police, as a way to defuse the situation, with anybody who refuses to respond to requests for ID at the security stations.

    Hi Theo: You’re right. Cynthia probably should think about working to form a third party with the millions of other Americans who feel disenfranchised by the Democrats and Republicans.

    Andrew #4: I think the Capitol police make an attempt to train their police officers to recognize as many of the members of Congress as possible. But, of course, not all faces are going to be remembered by every police officer. I’m sure other members of Congress walk past the metal detectors without their Congressional pins in plain view and expect to be recognized. So I don’t know why it was wrong for McKinney to expect the same. But, yes, it was wrong for her not to stop when shouted at and it was wrong for her to “allegedly” throw a punch. I said allegedly in the post because I don’t think McKinney has said she threw a punch, only that she was involved in an unfortunate confrontation with the police officer.

    Reasonable Man from Seattle #6: I mentioned that Soledad O’Brien wanted to focus only on the facts of the scuffle because she did not allow McKinney to talk about racial profiling in general without being rudely interrupted. Any reasonable host would have allowed her guest, McKinney, to talk about racial profiling without interrupting her. O’Brien then could have pressed McKinney one or two more times to give her side of the scuffle story. And then O’Brien should have stopped with the line of questioning, knowing that McKinney wasn’t going to talk about the details of the scuffle because it had already been referred to a grand jury. Because of the legal proceeding, the interview with McKinney served no purpose at all, other than to make O’Brien look like a bully (or, if you’re O’Brien’s agent, like an intrepid reporter not afraid to get tough with a member of Congress) and McKinney and her attorney stupid for agreeing to appear on the show.

    Posted by Mark Hand from Arlington  on  04/09  at  07:10 AM

  8. Anyone who’s interested in a completely different take on the McKinney debacle is invited to review http://oxtogrind.org/archive/156 ...which provides an option to what’s being bandied about here, another angle. I also have comments from Cynthia on this --off the record-- which can be shared on a case by case basis; that photo Mark used, I believe, is from an event we put on in Santa Cruz a couple of years ago...which Mark attended. Contact made with CMcK then has been “built upon”...and, consequently, I feel okay with taking the hard line that I do.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/09  at  11:52 AM

  9. Richy...thanks. People need to be reminded that all of this “stuff” that we take for granted has a price in human suffering. I have never had a cell phone and was the last one in the neighborhood to stop using a rotary phone.

    About the Cynthia controversy… How many black congresswomen are there? It seems to me that McK is very recognizable.  Would this whole episode fall under “Entrapment”?

    Posted by rosemarie from  on  04/09  at  02:34 PM

  10. In terms of the article I recommended, you’re getting “trapped” again...diverted from the thrust of the piece. The “entrapment” concern falls under the umbrella of discussing details about who’s right or wrong respecting a given event...which is one of soooo many...repeated ad infinitum...which leads to no end...except confirming the delusion that delineating such under the microscope enlightens, plants good seeds, etc. To whatever degree such talk does “contribute” in that way...it is truly minor relative to the distraction from action which it serves to a much greater degree. The cell phone particular --Cyn’s everyday use of it in the face of what it does, represents-- puts the question of other DC representatives into an appropriate perspective: they count for zero

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/09  at  03:29 PM

  11. Richy, I agree that in the big picture the Cynthia issue is not very important. On the other hand, if there was any racism or entrapment or injustice here it should not be overlooked even if she is a member of Congress.

    Posted by rosemarie from  on  04/09  at  05:15 PM

  12. Ox: Good point you make about coltan. However, I do think a cellie is probably one of the necessary trappings for anyone doing “business with the devil as a member of the U.S. Congress.” I, who will never be a member of Congress, do not actually use mine. When asked about this, I responded, “Why should I carry a tracking device?”

    Posted by Theo from Greece  on  04/09  at  08:35 PM

  13. Sorry to have to draw such an absolutist line, but one can’t pretend to be concerned about racism AND rationalize the use of cell phones as presently constituted. McKinney, for all of her good points, is conveniently ignoring the facts that are in on her desk...as are all of her colleagues and virtually -I’m sure-- all of her constituents. The fact that convenience is a variable to be considered here is --if one has gone over the situation in Africa, and understands the price unnecessarily being paid-- is no more significant than the price of cotton should have been prior to the Civil War. The elements which are behind the “worse-than-slavery” that drives the mining of gold, diamonds and coltan...and the distribution of same...demand much more attention from McKinney’s quarters than her recent confrontation is receiving. Look at the imbalance. Look at what’s being taken for granted. And look at how the fundamental racism (of which THIS event is but a single example) is being ignored. The links which I included in the bio part of my article recommended can serve as a beginning, I believe.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/09  at  09:35 PM

  14. Are you saying McKinney is an advocate of cell-phones and goes out of her way to rationalize their use, Ox? I don’t think that’s what you are saying. Aren’t you asking “what the hell Cynthia McKinney is doing with a cell phone?” Calling her on a bit of consumerist hypocrisy? (Which is, under contemporary capitalism, something that almost all of us, if subjected to the microscope treatment, can be called on ourselves for one reason or another; basically, as you know, because almost all of us scratch out our existence within the parameters of an exploitative and inherently illogical system.)

    Anyway, if it’s a consumerist hypocrisy thing, I can only reply that she is “doing business with the devil” (not that I actually believe in devils, gods or devilgods) and, in Washington, is probably not sitting next to a desk phone all day, nor can she be expected to

    Naturally, the larger point you are making is understood and I, personally, appreciate your use of the cellie in the context of this incident as a useful symbol for a serious and mostly neglected topic.

    I only add that when you say, “It would be lovely if someone would telephone Cyn on this count… on something along the lines of a rotary phone. Then, it’ll be her call” that, logically speaking, that person should be you. ;)

    Take care

    Posted by Theo from Greece  on  04/09  at  10:10 PM

  15. I’ve already contacted Cynthia on this. However, this is not just another example of consumer hypocricy, etc. Rather, I am addressing the true holocaust that is integrally connected to the whole phenomenon of cell phones; I do not use the word lightly here...as we are talking about many more deaths than what’s been coming down in Iraq over the last decade plus. Imagine Cynthia prancing ‘round the hallowed halls dripping with “blood diamonds” around her neck or socializing with someone who’s wearing same w/o calling the person on the whole business. Then you’ll be looking at what I’m looking at...and addressing in the piece. Thanks eversomuch for taking the time to read the article. The next step might be...might be...to adopt a new attitude with respect to Cynthia and/or to brace yourself for a number of confrontations with other reps...and neighbors...and strangers on this particular consumer issue...which has a parallel with those who provided any kind of support for WWII ovens in Germany. The fact that Cyn is a nice person and heads and shoulders above some others means zero. On this baby she must come home or be pigeonholed. Too few seem to really entertain the “possibility” that concerned citizens cannot work with what we have to work with...along traditional lines.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/09  at  10:59 PM

  16. Two other points central to my piece have to do with the straight-up environmental degradation --separate from any reference to Africa-- and the “stoned prostitutes” of the last paragraph. Keith Harmon Snow, though, is the “Joe” you want to read when it comes to what’s coming down, the downside of Africa vis-a-vis coltan. Fifteen minutes worth; you won’t have to keep returning to absorb his main message like some apparently feel they have to do with Chomsky et. al. You’ll see the plenty that there is to do...in a few heartbeats.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/10  at  12:07 AM

  17. Okay Ox, I get you. As I already said, “the larger point you are making is understood.” I think cell phones totally suck for many excellent reasons. I’ll take a look at KHS’s work. As for McKinney, if she can do her job without a cell, cool. Anyway, do consider writing a fuller piece on this McKinney/coltan thought for us all.

    Posted by Theo from Greece  on  04/10  at  11:23 AM

  18. Dearest Theo: Many thanks for the dialogue. Sorry if I am grating at times with my bedside manner, BUT...part of the Large Point here is that Cyn (and the others, all of us) can and must do w/o the cells. I’ll be interested in knowing --more specifically-- what you’d like me to elaborate on...once you’ve taken a look at BOTH the links I recommend in the bio section of my article on http://www.oxtogrind.org. At that site, btw, I do have another piece on the McKinney thing in the recent archives. Write to me directly, if you will, if and when you want something additional; it would be a pleasure to do a turn as per your request...if it’ll “advance” matters. As it is, I think Snow makes a very good case for why we need to talk up certain boycott potential (related to African minerals); you can get leads to that by scrolling quickly through my recent archives. There should be two or three pieces connected to what we’re discussing here...two on Snow, I believe, and one (as I remember) on celebrities drenched in African minerals. A couple have very good, germane links. Hugs for your interest.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/10  at  11:48 AM

  19. I believe http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=9832 is a link that’ll interest anyone who wants to actually do something about the sins Cyn is neglecting by putting so much energy into the relatively minor abuse dished out in DC recently. It focuses on the Big Picture of what Cyn was incensed about and offers many good suggestions, as I remember. To draw on the WWII analogy again, it’s the diff betwixt ranting about a shop being closed in Cologne ‘cause someone’s got a certain physiognomy vs. making an effort to derail the trains to Dachau.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/10  at  12:18 PM

  20. Mr. Oxman,

    I understand your point that some or all cellphones contain coltan and that some or all of the coltan comes from Congo, where literally millions of people are dying.  But it doesn’t immediately follow that people who use cellphones are contributing to the number of deaths.  Maybe they are reducing the number of deaths.  Maybe the killing will go on at the same rate regardless.  We would have to know more.

    You’re absolutely right that Congo is the biggest killing ground in the world right now by far.  My guess is that Sudan is next, followed by Somalia, Chad, Iraq, Nepal.  Then there are deaths by starvation, AIDS, malaria.  The top 10 are all in Africa.  So it makes you wonder why everyone spends their time obsessing about Israel, doesn’t it?  In terms of the number of deaths and number people suffering, it doesn’t make the top 30 conflicts.  I’ve never understood why this and other progressive sites (and everyone else as well) spend so much time obsessing about the subject, when there are so many other issues that seem far more pressing.  It seems like a big distraction from more important issues. 

    If a Palestinian child dies, it makes the news.  If 5000 people in Congo get massacred, no one knows or cares.  According to the BBC, roughly 5000 total people have died in Israel / Palestine in the last five years.  More than that die each week in Congo.  And yet this web site devotes perhaps 20% of its time to Israel and NONE to Congo, Nepal, Chad, etc.

    Posted by Andrew from  on  04/10  at  11:28 PM

  21. Thanks for responding, Andrew. You CAN get the additional info you seem to ask for...by reviewing the sources I’ve provided links for, if you like. There’s plenty of connection made between the coltan and the deaths I speak of by Keith Harmon Snow and many others. There is no basis for thinking the killing going on would proceed “at the same rate” w/o the abominations associated with the coltan and other minerals mentioned. People using cell phones not only have to answer to that, but (as I’ve noted) they have to answer to the environmental damage done here and elsewhere, the momentum which has gone way to far with regard to the “waves.” The listing of #s and the relative coverage are old stories, aren’t they? No need to go over the obvious. What’s not “obvious” OBVIOUSLY is the fact that even our left reps and supporters of left politicians aren’t acknowledging the unacceptable huge downside to the use of cell phones. It’s at least as bad as their support of autos.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/11  at  12:56 AM

  22. Theo asked me to consider writing a piece on coltan...to bounce off of the current attention on McKinney...and direct it toward coltan-related ills and Africa. However, as previously noted...there’s much else --more directly in our laps-- to pay attention to...if we want to address the cell phone issue. For starters, readers can tune into Chellis Glendinning...whose work vis-a-vis cell phone-related ills has been on the table for quite some time. See http://www.energyfields.org/impacts/chellis.html , if you’re interested. The holocaust in Africa, I’m afraid (in part because of the neglect of it from McKinney’s quarters and elsewhere), is not of interest to Black or White ‘Merica, not as important, apparently, as the easy/safe topics that keep getting posted.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/11  at  11:45 AM

  23. Yeah, can I agree nobody seems to truly care much about what goes on in Africa.

    Sadly, willfully ignoring the destruction of our world is connected to the teevee-fueled culture of blinginess. Slick phones, nice rides, and all that ice are visible status symbols. People want to complimented on their things, never looking at the reality of global warming or the possibility that nuclear winter ice age might be what they get for the blood and plunder.

    Thanks for that link, Ox. It inspired me to write something about the effects of consumerism and cyborgism on the human bio-electric field.

    Posted by Theo from Greece  on  04/12  at  09:13 AM

  24. Let me know when the piece is done, Theo, if you will...whether or not Mark posts it here. Also, let me know what you think of http://marcelsgeo.blogspot.com/ , heartbeats permitting. Loving best, Oxie

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/12  at  10:24 AM

  25. This diversion into the use of cell phones in this context is absolutely ridiculous and to ascribe is use in this context is sheer hypocracy.  In the same vein Oxman’s contribution and website are contributing to environmental degradation since he is using a computer that is causing tremendous amount of waste as they’ve been upgraded since its introduction in 1981.  Anyone who is not using an original IBM PC is contributing to the problem.

    I hope Oxman practices what he is preaching and simply stop using his computer but then we would lose his perspective.

    This line of discussion is also insulting to African Americans and demonstrates a lack of solidary to issue that are of concern to blacks in the U.S.  The attack on McKinney is attributed to her deeply progressive outspokenness and activism that especially makes liberals nervious.  This is yet another demonstration of “left-wing” detachment from reality.

    I also recommend reading the feature story on CounterPunch (http://www.counterpunch.org) today about how Tom Lantos (pro Israeli congressman) was treated by the Capitol Hill police after running over a 13 y/o with his car and constrast that to Ms. McKinney.

    Posted by Deadbeat from Skid Row  on  04/17  at  02:36 PM

  26. Oxman makes a good point and gives, on some issues, a similar argument as Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto.  But I also agree with some of Deadbeat’s points. Thanks for the Counterpunch link. There are two separate issues being discussed here. Both are important and neither should overshadow the other.

    Posted by rosemarie from  on  04/17  at  06:17 PM

  27. Yes, Deadbeat recommends READING. Just like all of the talk around the McKinney issue --as formulated by Deadbeat-orientation-- is slated to be in the same realm as “reading.” To wit, words in lieu of action. The computer use? I do mucho that’s horrid for the Big Picture, but unlike the people I’m criticizing, I’m right around the corner from eliminating this and that from my daily routine, whilst they are not; THEY are slated to simply continue w their basics w no consideration to change. A month from now I might very well not being using a computer, whilst Cynthia and her cellphone supporters are not; I’m talking, by def. of those who are not. ALL of us are doing things that are damaging and unnecessary, but the Q is what process is one involved in. Regarding the cell phone issue in and of itself, I submit that addressing that issue would simultaneously address racism AND the technological abomination and its offshoots AND help to educate the public...instead of contributing to keepin them asleep with the usual accusations, however true they are. I.E.,On Lantos...all the people who criticize him justly now...HAVE KNOWN the gist of what’s in that article forever. The ones who have are not slated to DO anything but repeat the charges, however. In closing, I’d like to add that R needs to be careful not to continually ride the fence in attempting to keep a delusion about solidarity going.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/17  at  07:20 PM

  28. The article on Lantos was offensive.  The theory was that Lantos was treated better because he’s pro-Israel and McKinney is anti-Israel.  Is there ANY evidence that this is the case?  Any evidence at all?  No. 

    Maybe Lantos was treated better because he was polite and didn’t punch the police officers.  But no, the author concluded that he was treated better because he was Jewish and pro-Israel.  Apparently the police said to themselves, “He’s Jewish and he votes pro-Israel, so I’ll be nice.”

    This obsession with Jews among the so-called “progressive” crowd is absolutely disgusting.

    Posted by Andrew from  on  04/17  at  08:36 PM

  29. You can put aside all of the Jewish-related specifics concerning Lantos. Lantos has been around long enough in DC quarters to command --by virtue of his Dominant Culture attributes, not his Jewish connections-- treatment which is different than what McKinney is likely to get on a given day. The most important thing, however, to remember about Lantos is that he represents --on virtually every count-- the worst aspects associated w the U.S. Okay? The contrast made in the article --though I’m not in favor of going over ad infinitum the same old ground it covers-- is essentially...essentially, as I remember...pointing to the unlevel playing field. Of course, the particular author involved is going to stress the angle that so upsets Andrew. There’s more there to chew on that just that.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/17  at  10:36 PM

  30. Oxman,
    You run a blog that is online 24/7 so you are incorrect to say that you are not using a computer.  Your blog in order to be accessible is running on a server and I can guarantee it is not a 1981 modeled IBM PC with 64K of RAM.  The constant hardware upgrades to run more powerful software and the miles of CAT-5 cabiling and discarded cathode ray tubes have been extremely wasteful and your blog is contributing to environmental degradation.  Also Lantos drive an automobile that is contributing to global warming and the amount of metal and plastic that is used in the production of autos are hazardous to the environment.  Did I hear you say that you are giving up your car?

    MiKinney’s cell phone is irrelevant to the context of the racial pro filing and harassment.  My takeis that environmental aspect of cell phone use could have and should be address in another article apart from the topic of racism and marginalization that is ever so important to African Americans.  It is that detactment that caution blacks from solidifing with the white left.

    Posted by Deadbeat from skid riw  on  04/18  at  12:35 AM

  31. You apparently haven’t read the articles recommended in my comments here. The most important notion you missed was that the cell phone issue I raised is not just an environmental issue, but very much a racial issue...as per Keith Harmon Snow’s stuff, etc. However, to begin with, again, on the notes I recently adressed to you...I said I use a computer...but that I was “around the corner” from not using one; how did you miss that significant point and the important elaboration I made regarding it? Car? For the minimal use of my vehicle...ditto. Environmental racism is not irrelevant to what McKinney encountered; and you should know that for all of her good points, she avoids that issue like the plague. The “solidarity” you muse about is not likely...but, certainly, all kinds of groups with all kinds of grievances have the “potential” to move ensemble with environmental racism here and abroad. In closing, I might add, if they don’t...there won’t be any hallowed halls left for McKinney in which to be discriminated against; all people concerned with people of color (and people in general) would do well to be preventing ANYONE from returning to New Orleans...as one example at home. The holocaust is Central Africa is directly linked to computers and cell phones.

    Posted by Richard Oxman from Los Gatos, CA  on  04/18  at  10:01 AM

  32. McKinney may not have many friends in congress...so what? Shes not there to make friends but to represent her district. And this she does better than about any other person in office, to may of whom are out to serve lobby groups like AIPAC.
    The Capitol Police are known for their racism, and they are subject to a law suit put out by black police, who claim they are harrassed.

    Posted by Brian from Australia  on  04/21  at  11:45 PM

  33. Rep. McKinney is a well documented racist.

    Posted by Steve Canyon from Hell  on  05/17  at  05:43 PM

  34. Steve...I can’t let your comment go unanswered. I believe that McKinney is one of the LEAST racist members of Congress.

    Posted by rosemarie jackowski from  on  05/22  at  02:21 PM

  35. Rosemarie, I will correct my previous post by saying Rep. McKinney is not a racist but rather a bigot.

    In McKinney’s 10+ years in Congress, hardly a year has gone by when she didn’t make news for an outlandish accusation or a wild conspiracy theory (ideally, as in this case, a combination of both). During a nasty 1996 congressional campaign with racial tension on both sides, she called supporters of her Republican opponent “holdovers from the Civil War days” and “a ragtag group of neo-Confederates.” Never mind that her opponent was Jewish. And during the 2000 presidential campaign, she wrote that “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.” Never mind that Gore’s campaign manager was black. In 1994 McKinney refused to vote for a resolution condemning the anti-Semitic speeches of Khalid Muhammad, a firebrand disciple of Nation of Islam leader Rev. Louis Farrakhan. Beginning in 1997, McKinney voted repeatedly to cut U.S. aid to Israel.

    In the most recent demonstration of McKinney’s lack of judgment, McKinney bypassed a metal detector as she entered the Longworth House Office Buildingwho while not wearing an identification badge. An officer twice asked her to go back through the checkpoint, but McKinney ignored him. The officer then reached out and grabbed her arm, and McKinney turned around and beat the officer’s chest numerous times. An angry McKinney later characterized the officer’s actions as an example of racial profiling and part of a larger pattern of Capitol Police mistreating blacks.

    I truly do not understand why anyone would want to defend this misguided Congresswoman. 

    But that’s just my opinion.

    Steve

    Posted by Steve Canyon from  on  05/28  at  03:48 PM

  36. A common tactic of opponents is to label African American proponents of economic and social justice as “racist’ and “bigot”.  I find this very common even among some so-called “leftist” especially those who are tacit apologist of the apartheid state of Israel.  As Ms. McKinney has the courage to challenge the real “third rail” of politics – criticizing the near unanimous support for Israel in the Congress the reaction by those who firmly or tacitly support Israel has been to denigrate African American concerns about racism and white and class privilege in general.

    What Ms. McKinney says of Al Gore is absolutely true.  Gore, the phony baloney, is now trying to himself as the “white knight want to be” who can “take America back” that the liberals and mostly white bogglers embrace.  However what Steve want to forget is that it was Al “racist” Gore who interjected race in the 1988 Democratic Primary by appealing to white swing voters by attacking Michael Dukakis and the Massachusetts furlough program using the racist stereotype of the unfortunate Willie Horton incident.

    Gore’s racist precedence was then adopted by Lee Atwater and George HW Bush to hammer Dukakis and play to the base level of white racist fears. Needless to say GHWB won the 1988 election.  In light of this history for Steve to mislabel Ms. McKinney a racist and bigot exemplify why the crisis in the U.S. will never be resolved.  Steve is covering up his own racial hatred and desire to maintain racist privileges.

    The main purpose of this post however is to criticize Mark Hand who begat this thread and who has failed to report that Ms. McKinney was exonerated by the DC Grand Jury. Apparent she handled herself with aplomb to counterattack what was a desire by the white power structure to weaken her ability to speak out on issue of social and economic justice.  Rather than show her support the white left, IMO, demonstrates their sheer weakness and tactic desire to maintain the status privileged quo.

    Why the silence Mark.  Could it be whiteness?

    DD

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