You know, if you or I assaulted a police office, they wouldn’t be able to throw us in jail fast enough…and we’d richly deserve it. Of course, we’re not a loudmouth African-American Congresswoman who plays the race card and screams “RACISM!” whenever things don’t go her way. Yes, we’re not former DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), are we? No, we don’t have the luxury of playing to the media and accusing our “oppressors” of being racist thugs trying to silence the voice of reason…not that there is anything even remotely reasonable about McKinney.
It’s hard not to believe that the rules are different for people like McKinney, who long ago learned that playing the race card is a fantastically effective way to avoid being held accountable for things that would get those of us not fortunate enough to be a minority media whore into all sorts of hot water. Then again, I’m far less concerned about McKinney’s color (which ultimately has nothing to do with her outrageous and inexcusable behavior) than I am about her attitude that she’s beyond accountability and and can scream “RACISM!” whenever anyones does try to hold her accountable.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A grand jury has declined to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, who was accused of punching a Capitol Police officer in April.
The grand jury’s decision ends the investigation into the incident, according to U.S. Attorney Kenneth Wainstein.
The March 29 altercation occurred at a security checkpoint in a congressional office building after officer Paul McKenna, a three-year veteran of the force, failed to recognize the six-term Georgia Democrat and tried to stop her from bypassing a metal detector.
Members of Congress are allowed to go around the detectors. However, they are supposed to wear pins that identify them as representatives or senators. McKinney acknowledged she was not wearing her pin.
McKinney “physically assaulted” McKenna, hitting him in the chest with a “closed fist,” according to an incident report filed by Capitol Police last month.
I can’t help but wonder what might have happened if McKinney had been a less well-known and less media-savvy (and Caucasian…and male) Congressperson. Methinks if she was not a loudmouth female African-American media whore who can manipulate the African-American community to support her at a moment’s notice, she’d be wearing an orange prison jumpsuit right about now.
I’m really struggling to express my outrage without doing anything that might get me accused of racism, but yes, I am very upset about the double standard with which McKinney has been dealt with and now sees as her birthright. If you or I were to have done what McKinney did, we’d already be behind bars…and deservedly so. What, then, make Cynthia McKinney different? You mean besides being an African-American female with a big mouth who has no problem at all with playing the race card whenever it suits her purpose? Other than that, she’s just like you and me.
So how’s this whole equality thing working out for you? I’m not so enamored of it myself…mostly because it’s nothing close to equality.
