I have rarely seen a more arrogant and foolish woman than Cynthia McKinney. In case you have somehow missed the story, McKinney is the Georgia Congresswoman (D) who failed to wear the pin signifying her as a member of Congress and became beligerant and apparently violent with the Capital Police who detained her when she tried to bypass the security system. According to McKinney, she was in a hurry and was not wearing the pin given to members of Congress in order to identify them, (as has apparently been her habit). McKinney said, in part of her official statement , "I was urgently trying to get to an important meeting on time to fulfill my obligations to my constituents. Unfortunately, the Police Officer did not recognize me as a Member of Congress and a confrontation ensued."
A confrontation ensued indeed. Ms. McKinney became angry at being detained by the Capital policeman and apparently refused to simply say (as many other Congressmen do when they forget their pins) who she was. She expected the policeman to recognize her. And apparently not just her hairstyle, but her face. (She has recently changed her hairstyle quite dramatically.) Her ultimate response to being detained...to slug the officer with her cell phone. (If I had been that officer, I'd have slapped handcuffs on her immediately....)
Now, Ms. McKinney is doing what comes naturally to her. She is placing the blame elsewhere. She is accusing the officer (and apparently other Capital policemen) of racism. Today, McKinney said, "Face recognition is the issue .... The pin doesn't have my name on it and it doesn't have my picture on it, and so security should not be based on a pin ... People are focused on my hairdo. Something that perhaps the average American just doesn't understand is that there is a heightened sense of a lack of appropriateness being there for members who are elected who happen to be of color...and until this issue is addressed by the American public in a very substantive way, it won't be the last time." (this from Examiner.com)
Cynthia McKinney is a very racist and foolish woman. She is not only blaming everyone else for her error, but she is arrogantly assuming that she is above the law. Apparently in McKinney's world, the laws should not apply to her because she is a black member of Congress and she felt slighted by someone who was simply doing his job...a job which serves to protect even idiots like McKinney. Capital police chief Terrance Gainer said, "I've seen our officers stop white members and black members, Latinos, male and females...It's not an issue about what your race or gender is. It's an issue about making sure people who come into our building are recognized if they're not going through the magnetometer, and this officer at that moment didn't recognize her."
According to outgoing Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, "Cynthia McKinney is a racist...She has a long history of racism. Everything is racism with her. This is incredible arrogance that sometimes hits these members of Congress, but especially Cynthia McKinney."
Apparently, McKinney has gone a little too far this time. Not one of her fellow Democrats will even come close to showing support for Ms. McKinney's self-made predicament. Even they realize that this is foolishness that all could have been avoided had the "honorable" Congresswoman McKinney shown a bit more class and chosen to follow the rules rather than expect favortism. Grow up, Ms. McKinney.
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