Looks like the race and gender cards are getting overdrawn:
"The Girl Who Cried Racism," a "caterwauling cop-basher," the "wrong poster child for racial profiling"--these are among the milder comments directed at Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney for assaulting a Capitol Hill police officer who prevented her from bypassing a security check point.
McKinney is a black woman; the officer is a white man. The incident provides a riveting glimpse into the politics of gender and race.
Ironically, the incident itself had nothing to do with gender or race. On March 29, McKinney did not wear the ID pin identifying her as one of the 500-plus representatives and senators who are exempt from the regular screening process. As she skirted security at a Capital building, an officer who did not recognize her repeatedly called out "Ma'am!"
McKinney ignored him. He put a restraining hand either on her shoulder or arm; she allegedly struck him in the chest."
"McKinney is a legislator. Barring appeals to gender and race, the only justification she has is that the legislation she passes applies to other people, not to her; she is above the law. It is no wonder she chose the reliable but very, very old strategy of gender and race.
What is amazing is how spectacularly they failed."
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