Much Ado Hairdo

Cynthia McKinney apologizes for "misunderstanding" that recently took place. "What McKinney called a "misunderstanding" on Thursday she had labeled "racial profiling" and "inappropriate touching" a day earlier. For nearly a week, she and her lawyers had insisted that she had been assaulted and had done nothing wrong. She is black and the police officer is white.

As I blogged below, it was all a charade. Of course it may well be "racial profiling" but I was embarrassed by her week long performance on television. The type of incident she describes happens, as she said, every day to millions of Blacks across America.

I wonder if I'm "profiling" when I find myself summing up white guys with mullets as trailer trash, white men with big bellies as drunks with bloated livers, and hairy white men in old beat up trucks as probable serial killers. Oh, and those bland looking white men in vans could be pedophiles. And I swear, standing in a store here in the heartland, most white people all look alike.

If McKinney wants to make profiling a major issue present real victims who suffered more than a smack down to their pride or hairdo. Remember Martin Anderson the 14 y/o beaten to death in a Florida boot camp, Amadou Diallo shot 41 times, or Abner Louima tortured and maimed with a plunger, 5 y/o girls handcuffed for temper tantrums, Rodney King, and thousands of others across the country who physically are murdered or maimed or humiliated. Because, gotta tell ya – we cannot legislate respect for one another – but we can send to prison those who physically abuse and torture anyone because of the color of their skin, or use their authority to humiliate and terrorize children. And that's all I have to say about that Forrest.