Insulting....

By this point, I assume that everyone knows the story of Cynthia McKinney's scuffle with Capitol police last week. Hardly a capital crime (pun acknowledged but not intended), but still embarrassing. What bothers me is the way she is defending herself since. Did anyone see her press conference, complete with appearances by Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover? Her interview with Wolf Blitzer? She is making her punching (or "stabbing with a cell phone") into an issue of racial discrimination! She says that Capitol police should have known her (despite her radically different new hair style). Cynthia, there are 435 representatives!

What really bothers me is that her charge of racism trivializes the racism that still exists in the United States. There are still black people pulled over for no traffic violation (other than DWB). There are plenty of clueless white people who honestly believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past. McKinney's silly playing of the race card further convinces these clueless people that they are indeed correct. Sigh.