Cynthia McKinney: Victim of Being in Congress while black

Could it be that one of my fondest wishes is about to come true? According to the Al Jazeera-Constitution (er, excuse me, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution — can’t imagine how I made that mistake), Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney may be arrested soon for her part in a recent incident during which she allegedly struck a Capitol Police officer who tried to stop her from going around a security checkpoint.

This has especial relish for me since I am one of her many long-suffering constituents, which is to say, a resident of her Congressional district who isn’t among the brain-damaged minions who actually voted for this crazy woman.

But first things first. McKinney is said to have hit a Capitol Police officer in the chest when he stopped her from entering the building without going through a metal detector. As usual, and ever thumbing her nose at authority, she wasn’t wearing a lapel pin identifying her as a House member. For most of her colleagues that’s not too big a concession to make to “the Man” in exchange for a little security. But then most of her colleagues aren’t hopeless racial victimhood addicts whose perception of “the Man” involves white robes and pointed hoods.

McKinney’s lawyer, James Myart Jr., whose every word was as predictable as the movements of the stars in the firmament, said this: “Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black.”

I don’t want to say that strains credulity, but if black folks are really being mistreated for “being in Congress while black,” then one would expect to see members of the Congressional Black Caucus getting gang-tackled on a regular basis by racist security officers. Funny thing is, I haven’t heard about any complaints from any of them.

“Congresswoman McKinney,” Myart said further, ” in a hurry, was essentially chased and grabbed by the officer. She reacted instinctively in an effort to defend herself.”

The problem with McKinney “reacting instinctively” is that the Congresswoman is a walking, talking bundle of racial paranoia and emotional pathologies on an interminable hunt for any excuse to accuse someone of racism. For such a person to react instinctively is rife with ugly possibilities.

So ate up with this malady is she that she once said that “Al Gore’s Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I’ve never seen him around more than one at a time.” I don’t know what the context was, but is it even possible there could have been one such that the statement was anything other than crazy?

One can only imagine what important business she was in such a rush to get to when security stopped her. Here’s a couple of examples of the kinds of urgent matters she’s dealt with for the American people in the last year or so:

1.) She chaired a Congressional hearing last year “on whether the Bush administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

2.) Introduced into the House of Representatives the Tupac Shakur Records Release Act of 2006 “for the purpose of fully informing the American people about the history surrounding the life and death of [gangster rapper] Tupac Amaru Shakur.”

In addition, she has long been known for things like advocating for disastrous Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, cozying up with and receiving campaign donations from all kinds of terrorist sympathizers, favoring Palestinians over Israelis and for having a blatantly anti-Semitic father in the Georgia State Legislature whose prejudices may have rubbed off on her.

If anybody’s a victim, it’s her rational constituents who didn’t vote for her and are sick and tired of being embarrassed by this wack job who is an utter disgrace to the Congress, the country and the human race.

Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/