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March 31, 2006

Racism: A Capitol Offense

U.S. Representative, and certified crazy kooky person, Cynthia McKinney claims that race was behind her being stopped by Capitol Police on Wednesday, an altercation in which she attacked the officer:

s U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, faces possible criminal charges for a Wednesday altercation with a Capitol Police officer, one of her lawyers said Friday that the real issues were "sex, race and Ms. McKinney's progressiveness."

In a news conference featuring actor Danny Glover and singer Harry Belafonte, McKinney said she would be exonerated and that "this whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman."

Were other women assaulted? No. Were other blacks assaulted? No. Other black women? No.

And how the hell does someone tell that you're a progressive just by looking at you? It's not like she was puking on the sidewalk in protest of the war.

Wait, your Honor, I withdraw the question - just look at the crazy lady's hair. I can only be thankful that my PC doesn't have Progressive Smell-o-vision too.

But, yeah, so anyway, it's all about race:

Glover and Belafonte refrained from addressing the facts of the case and said they were there to support McKinney. Belafonte said he did not know what happened during the Wednesday incident but wanted to make sure the matter was handled on "a very fair and very square basis...".

Added Glover, "We're not here to judge the merits of the case, but here to support our sister."

Oh, yes, it's all about politics and race, but not on the part of the Capitol Police.