Democratic party pulls head from ass, looks around:
Impact of McKinney Loss Worries Some Democrats (washingtonpost.com)Black and Jewish political leaders voiced concerns yesterday that the defeat of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.), a critic of pro-Israel policies, by a challenger receiving extensive Jewish support might intensify ill feelings between two important Democratic constituencies. Any increase in tensions between Jewish and African American voters, political activists said, could damage Democratic hopes of taking back the House and keeping control of the Senate.
[. . .] Although both Majette and McKinney are African American, the unusual interest in their primary by pro-Israel groups backing Majette and by pro-Muslim groups backing McKinney triggered talk yesterday of a potential for sharpened conflicts between blacks and Jews -- in Georgia and elsewhere.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that "at the grass roots" among African American voters, there is a growing perception that "Jewish people are attempting to pick our leaders. . . . There is some concern about that. It's concern about any candidate being targeted by a special-interest group for voting on any one issue."
Next, Democratic Party realizes sun rises in East, sets in West, after repeated observation of phenomenon.
That quotation from Johnson "set off" something named Mitch Weber. Why? He doesn't say. Just that:
That's precisely the sort of remark that turned me against the ACLU. Some people - yes, people, not just statements - are too vile for First Amendment protection.
Uh-huh.
He also wrote, a few days before:
In a related story, I recently noticed, after three years in New Haven, that one of our busiest intersections - College and Chapel - is named in honor of Desmond Tutu. Has anyone ever boycotted a street corner before?
Known of his existence for all of five minutes, and already I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire. Think that's a new record.
Just the words "yale" and "pundit" (separately, but even WORSE, together) make me want to hurl.
Can we talk about my boobies now?
Anytime, anyplace, darling.
Some things are just always on topic, you know?
washingtonpost.com">"McKinney's Loss Points to Larger Change"
... Because African Americans make up only about 13 percent of the U.S. population, the focus in politics has been on resisting efforts by whites to "divide and conquer." But as blacks as a group have become more affluent, class and generational differences have become increasingly stark, with younger, professional-class blacks more open to moderate and conservative ideas (albeit not conservative politicians). What has been bubbling up for years finally has begun playing itself out in the national spotlight this year. ...
Quit with the voice of reason, you. I am basking in my bitterness.
Besides, now I have to look up the Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois debate to show what a silly premise that article is based on, and that means, like, five minutes of research.
More than the person who wrote the thing did, and s/he gets paid for that sort of thing.
now what in sam hill kinda jackass would boycott a street that had been named after tutu??
"dawg-gone it jethro, it's bad enough them south afficun knee-grows had to end apartheid, but they had to go and do it without giving us a good ol' fashioned blood bath??! ta HECK with them!!"
don't know if you've ever been to new haven CT, aaron (i am assuming that is the new haven he refers to, although who knows, mayber there's a new haven in idaho...) but i find little to recommend it. people i know who grew up there did there damndest to get out, probably to get away from crackers like him.
Jim, I try to avoid them little bitty states out East. Did like Northampton, MA during the brief time I was there, but, um, I'm not supposed to talk about that. . .