Compare "Can't Criticize Bush" Policy to Treatment of Cynthia McKinney

Now I'm not a huge Cynthia McKinney fan. I think she too often speaks first, thinks later (a practice I'm guilty of myself).

But, although she was pushed out after 9/11, her constituents brought her back to the House. They have that right.

This week, a rumpus turned into a bigger one when McKinney supposedly went through House security without properly displaying her ID. A Capitol police officer chased her down. What happened next is open to some conjecture. McKinney says she was "touched inappropriately".

But the far right is, as usual, displaying its barely concealed hatred for anyone of color who does not pull the Uncle Clarence Thomas "love them whities" routine. They've called her a nut, a mental case, and even a "ghetto slut" because she says her rights were violated. Rita Cosby - who really has no right to call anyone names considering she's a no talent moose-voiced lard ass - was hinting at similar phrases when she was on Hardball last night with Chris Matthews.

The contempt these folks hold for anyone of color just amazes me. A lot of real righty Reps really can't see why we don't have separate drinking fountains and can't understand why Rosa Parks got buses desegregated. And that's part of what's behind the No Child Left Behind/Charter School programs - if kids of color have to be in public schools, then let's kill the public schools.

Very sad, but I think true.