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I saw her on CNN the other night, and I must say, I'm afraid she's completly out of her tree.

Anyone else catch her on the Situation Room?

Or, is she a victim of being in congress while black, as her lawyer alledges?

shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)


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Cops Seek Arrest Warrant Against McKinney

POSTED: 3:40 pm EDT April 3, 2006
UPDATED: 7:18 am EDT April 4, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Capitol Police today submitted their case against Representative Cynthia McKinney to the U.S. Attorney's office, which will consider whether the Georgia congresswoman will face charges for tangling with a law enforcement officer last week.

Principal assistant U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips declined to say whether the referral included a recommended charge against the six-term Georgia Democrat or when a warrant for her arrest might be issued.

McKinney spokesman Coz Carson acknowledged the investigation, saying a statement will follow once they know where the investigation is going.

For her part, McKinney said she expects to represent her suburban Atlanta district for many years.

Black clergy and lawmakers came the defense of the firebrand congresswoman today. McKinney smiled as her supporters heaped praise on her leadership and her new look, her trademark cornrows replaced earlier this year by a curly brown natural style.

The 51-year-old McKinney scuffled with a police officer on March 29 when she entered a House office building without her identifying lapel pin and did not stop when asked. Several police sources said the officer, who was not identified, asked her three times to stop. When she kept going, he placed a hand somewhere on her and she hit him, according to the officials.

McKinney refused to comment today about her confrontation with the police officer.

Instead her supporters used a news conference this morning at the Community Church of Christ on Cascade Road to attack security procedures at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

They blamed the incident between McKinney and an unidentified police officer on racism. Speakers said the officer failed to recognize McKinney as a member of congress and grabbed her because she is black.

They also ridiculed the use of pins to identify members of congress. McKinney admits she was not wearing her pin when she was stopped by the officer when she bypassed a security checkpoint.

McKinney made a statement listing accomplishments of her office and scolding the local media for concentrating coverage of the slapping incident.

She refused to take any questions from reporters.

Supporters included Democratic state legislators Representative "Able" Mable Thomas and Senator Vincent Fort. Her supporters pledged to stand by McKinney.

McKinney held a news conference Friday in Washington in which she said "This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman."

McKinney, also a Democrat, declined to discuss the incident further since she still may be charged with striking the officer after she entered a House office building unrecognized and did not stop when asked. She and her two lawyers refused to say during the Washington news conference whether she hit the officer or how he touched her inappropriately.

Copyright 2006 by WSBTV.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

x-post:

a. Stop watching The Situation Room.
b. Her name is Cynthia McKinney.
c. Stop watching The Situation Room.

Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

you have a programme called the situation room?

i'm fucking coming over.

Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

oops, Cynthia.

It was my first situation room. I just got cable last week!

shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:28 (twenty years ago)

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It's Cynthia, she's one of my favorite congressional reps., and I'm afraid she's given an enormous gift to the Republicans. I am ambivalent about some of the things she is saying about this, but apparently there has been a pattern of police/security in DC (at the White House, etc. not at private companies) not recognizing her, which I imagine would get pretty annoying if it seems like it's only happening to her, one of the only black women in Congress.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

What do you like about her? She and her lawyers came off as delusional and disconnected from reality, and even if the show sucks, I don't think it was the show's fault.

shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

lol @ "virginia"

cynthia mckinney is frequently self-contradictory & needs to chill with the anti-israel shit, but so heroic in so many ways - campaigning to declassify files on 9/11 & the assassination of MLK, working for union & miners rights in africa, encouraging american distribution of international news instead of domestic propaganda, challenging sexism & racism in the house, & quoting pac while speaking at king memorial last year. her principles are a huge asset to congress & and im proud to say she represents GA.

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

...By that I mean I don't think the show put her in an unfair light.

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shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

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She's not afraid to take on the Bush administration very directly. She has also openly expressed the opinion that Bush had foreknowledge of 9/11. (I realize this will just make her appear more delusional for some of you, but she's joined by a growing number of others.) I believe she was strongly opposed to the invasion of Iraq.

I think there have been other things over the years, but I don't remember specifically.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

of course as this thread proves the majority of white americans who arent georgians or leftists view her as some uppity troublemaking negro who cant keep her mouth shut

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe I typed Virginia.

Foreknowledge of 9/11 as in they knew a terrorist attack was likely, or foreknowledge as in they knew that on or around 9/11 hijacked planes would be flown into the WTC and other targets? Big difference.

Also, isn't she considered an anti-Semite?

I'm not a Georgian but I am a leftist, and it's incidents like this that play right into thee hands of the right. I don't think she's an "uppity negro," you stupid dipshit. I'm just reacting to what I saw when she was interviewed, where she came off as stone cold crazy. Look it up, watch it, and then get back to us.

And way to generalize about a large swath of Americans based on one Internet thread, +++++.

shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I meant to watch this.

As someone regularly incensed by security guards demanding to see my identification when I came into my building, I have sympathy. On the other hand
a) she is one of more than 400 representatives;
b) she is in a building where real security might actually be warranted;
c) she repeatedly refused even to acknowledge security.

She deserves whatever she gets, and doubly so if she hasn't consistently voted against all the Bush administration's alarmist measures. And calling it "racism" is a perfect example of why minority causes generate resentment.

mitya's new york minute (mitya), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

or foreknowledge as in they knew that on or around 9/11 hijacked planes would be flown into the WTC and other targets? Big difference.

The latter, which is also what I think probably happened. (I also often have the desire to hit people.)

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

shes considered an anti-semite because she supports the rights of palestinians to not live under apartheid and, more dramatically, when she lost an election her father got caught saying it was because of the 'jews' due to her stance on israel, which is a perfectly honest guess about voter demographics but not really the sort of thing you should actually say - yeah shes got batshit lefty conspiracy theorist tendencies which push her towards anti-israel/sharon/neo-con stuff but i doubt she's actually anti-semitic

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

calling it "racism" is a perfect example of why minority causes generate resentment = "uppity troublemaking negro"

++++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:58 (twenty years ago)

+++ you're so predictable. just as an experiment, try reversing the races in this situation, like if some moreorless unknown whitemale representative wasn't recogonized and laid hands on some black cops.

yeah I know "that could never happen! you're a racist apologist etc"

anybody w/street smarts knows that fucking w/the cops when you're in their custody is a losing proposition. save it for court.

m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

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Batshit lefty conspiracy tendencies shared by some former Repbublican high-level government officials, uh huh (re: 9/11).

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

just as an experiment, try reversing the races in this situation

Yeah, the Racial Transitive Property is JUST THAT EASY.

Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

yeah why did those civil rights protesters in birmingham have to fuck with the police? this is a perfect example of why minority causes generate resentment!

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

"moreorlessinknown?" She's probably, like, one of the top three or four fetish objects for the loony right in this country (which, these days, encompasses the entire GOP and half the fucking swing voter), right after Michael Moore, Howard Dean and either Clinton.

phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Here's my two questions:

1. Was she normally able to walk through security without her pin because the guards recognized her?

2. Did a guard who normally let her through security suddenly not recognize her because she changed her hair, and he grabbed her thinking that this was a strange black woman walking into Congress?

We're talking about Washington DC security here, so my instinct is to side with McKinny.

Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

what I meant: cops tend to be literal-minded and obtuse, it's part of their job description and it's just as easy to imagine them harrassing anybody w/o the required ID "Just doing my job sir!" as it is to imagine them targeting a lone congresswoman.

m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

This is not the first time that McKinney has been unable to receive a pass from security checkpoints, according to reports. In a Slate magazine interview, McKinney said a Capitol Hill police officer stopped her from bypassing a metal detector during her first term in 1993. The incident and subsequent ones provoked the police force to post a picture of McKinney at checkpoints so officers could better identify her because of her choice not to wear the Congressional pin.

McKinney has complained about other incidents in which she perceived to be treated differently due to the color of her skin. During a 1998 reception at the White House, McKinney said a guard at the entrance deferred to the white aide accompanying McKinney as the person of authority, according to a USA Today story. Once inside the White House, McKinney said another guard attempted to stop her, letting her go only when a colleague vouched for her.

Not letting the treatment go unaddressed, McKinney sent a note to then-President Bill Clinton.

"I am absolutely sick and tired of having to have my appearance at the White House validated by white people," wrote McKinney, who later received an apology from the administration. "I don't need to be stopped or questioned because I happen to look like hired help.”

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/mckinney331

I still think she was wrong to hit the cop, I can't defend what she did.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

what about in 92 or 93 when the guards thought her 20 yr old white aide was the congresswoman and she was just some negro cleaning lady or something? was that not racism either?

xpost yeah that

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

she's anti-bush for sure, but that hardly absolves her from being a huckster and an idiot. I mean, Larouche is anti-bush too.

timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

don't you think comparing this (deplorable)incident to the Birmingham march sorta trivializes the Civil Rights movement?

it's interesting how you can explain away any of her associations w/anti-semitism yet every slight against her is a racial slur.

m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

yes its also interesting how assholes constantly want to reverse the races of a situation to "prove" its not racist

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

This is like Brian vs. Bruno on "Black. White."

Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Well, whatever. Who is she that she has face recognition? Is it even reasonable to expect that every security guard rememeber the face of every person who is permitted entry to a venue? I think not. And if her appearance has changed recently, its realistic to expect it to be harder to ID her. Hubris is not a good thing. She was prideful and refused to stop and simply provide her name or ID when asked. If after 3 requests to stop she made no attempt to provide ID or credentials and then was stopped by security, who is being paid to STOP intruders, then she is in the wrong.
I am sure the vast majority of politicians and workers have had to be IDed many many many times. It is part of the process. She needs to stop her whining and let people deal with serious issues.

So it happened before. So what.I lived on a military base with 150 families and the security guards saw me at least 4 times a day going on and off base, entering and exiting through the main gate. And when we were on a high alert, they had to get the ID card of every person who entered the base. Even residents. Even people whom they saw every day for 3 years. There were times when I didnt have my ID and they waved me thru, but if they had refused me entry (perhaps a new guard was on duty that day and didnt know me) theres nothing I could have or should have done. I was in the wrong.

I have no sympathy.

nina loca, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

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not trying to "prove" anything. merely suggesting there could be other forces at play along with racism, or heaven forbid, maybe it's a misunderstanding that's spiralled into a racially charged incident. and I don't think you're an asshole, just a little quick on the trigger finger with accusations of racism.

m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Lady refused to wear ID since 1993. They had to post her picture. She has been in scuffles with security in the past because of refusing to stop for them or show ID, yet pointedly continues to do it. Not even a mickey ficken' dee's cashier can sell you a burger without wearing a tag, being a congresswoman doesn't exempt you from following the rules especially in a high security federal building. Why is anyone even making an issue of it?

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

My own take on the face recognition thing: I don't think the fact--and at least according to some studies it is an established fact--that whites have more trouble recognizing black faces than they do recognizing white faces necessarily should be interpreted as racism in itself. I think it has more to do with most whites being a lot more used to seeing white faces than black faces (but that of course can have plenty to do with racist social arrangements).

I have frequently embarrassed myself by by having trouble recognizing Asians I definitely should have recognized, and that's despite Asian faces being part of the family thanks to my brother marrying a Japanese woman; and also despite my being able to honestly say I don't think there's no shred of racism in me re: Asians (which I couldn't so confidently or categorically say about blacks, unfortunately). I think it probably has a lot to do with what you are surrounded with early on in your life. Not that I really want to take this into a confessional, heart-baring exercise.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

(I've made mistakes. . . I've made blunders. . .)

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I guess its safe to assume that the cop was white?

This kind of bullshit enrages me - as a DC resident for six years, I've had to gain credentials to access Congress, the Library of Congress, other law firms, other governmental buildings, etc. For this woman to think that, as a member of a 400+ member body, she can avoid the simple and easily followed security protocols in the US CAPITOL, it just shows an overblown sense of entitlement. That smacks of a lack of perspective and clouded judgment.

Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Not even a mickey ficken' dee's cashier can sell you a burger without wearing a tag, being a congresswoman doesn't exempt you from following the rules especially in a high security federal building.

I wonder how common this is though (for other congresspersons--what is the correct gender-neutral term?).

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

theres what, like 5 or 6 black congressional members? recognizing cynthia mckinney should be like picking which one eminem is out of a picture of d12

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

oh but wait - "overblown sense of entitlement"!!!!

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Most wear their pins, says Slate.

Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I think it has more to do with most whites being a lot more used to seeing white faces than black faces (but that of course can have plenty to do with racist social arrangements).

This was Washington, though, which isn't exactly Whitey Central?

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

ok i was underestimating for effect but i guessed waaaay too low on that - the congressional black caucus has 43 members right now, although 2 are non voting from DC and virgin islands & one is obama of course

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Yes. She, like any other member of the House, should have to follow the security protocols. Period. Thinking that she shouldn't have to makes her appear to feel more entitled than others to a relaxed security regimen. Hence, overblown sense of entitlement.

Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

she may be in the right, i don't know. but she did sound really fuckin' bizarro on t.v. her and her two lawyers. they might have even sounded more bizarro. maybe the right is drugging her with crazy drugs.

scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

This kind of outcry and hand-wringing and pundit-wank over some little tiny incident enrages me. So Cynthia McKinney hit a Capitol cop, so what? If Denny Hastert was stopped (which he wouldn't have been because he looks like a congressman) and hit the cop, he'd be held up as a great American hero who doesn't take no shit, but I'd still say it was a huge waste of our time designed to take everyone's mind off the fact that the WORLD IS FALLING APART.

Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

how the fuck do you have a 10% black representation in the house but a 1% black representation in the senate????

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

i guessed waaaay too low on that

But how many black female congressvolk are there? I would still expect her to stand out.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL MY BROTHER

"Though I'm not a politician I know all my rights / I had a fight with a cop just last night"

Stetsanym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

and haikunym otm of course - imagine if some rugged heroic straight-talker like john mccain did this instead of a shit-stirring black woman who doesnt know her place

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

didn't bush's security people try to jack up the presidential guard in chile or someplace last year?

Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Because Senate is meant for the very wealthy, that's why, so it's going to be that much harder to find African-Americans there.

I don't really agree about John McCain (or whomever).

And yes, there are more important things. I'm mostly interested in the story, to begin with, because I'm sorry she apparently snapped and sorry that that's going to make it harder for her to do anything productive as a congresswoman.

uhm, xposts

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

(hahahahahaha okay, the person who registered "Wrinklepaws" needs to fess up now)

Dan (That Can't Be A Real Poster!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Ya never know...

Anyway, I gather she just made some statement of apology on the House floor.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

[do not GIS for: hillary clinton martha stewart -- NSFW WARNING]

Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha Ned, for a full 3 seconds I was thinking "WRINKLEPAWS IS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES???????" before my brain caught up to my eyes.

Dan (So Tired) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Also Wednesday, McKinney deflected questions about the confrontation, while the Capitol Police chief said the lawmaker should have known better. (Watch McKinney deflect questions -- 10:46)

Bitter ROFFLE at CNN.

Dan (Lookit The Liberal Bias!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

*hand raised*

gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I keep imagining her with Wonder Woman bracelets, deftly deflecting questions before smacking a guard in the head with her Golden Cell Phone.

Dan (PKOW! PKOW!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

"WRINKLEPAWS IS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES???????"

Can't do worse than some now in there!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

HALF-respect?!

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

:-(

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Bi-Desperation

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

"The Chair recognizes Representative Wrinklepaws from Wyoming."
"YSI?"
"*sigh*"

Dan (ROFFLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Two words: j/o party
-- jaymc

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.digital-djs.com/talk/photos/get-photo.asp?photoid=123

Dan (Nas Is Down) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

lookit them chompers!

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

i'm so tired of jaymc trying to turn every fap into one of those

gear (gear), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

ysi?

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

FAJ/O?

Dan (Dangerously Close To "Faygo") Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

i do fancy a j/o

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

it starts with a subtle slide-over in the booth, a friendly slap on the knee that lingers about half-a-second too long, a hopeful widening of the eyes, and an accidental spilling of the beer onto the crotch, inevitably concluded with, "oh let me clean that up for you", protested with, "but it's already soaked into my pants", but does that stop him?

gear (gear), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

two things:

1 - it amazes me that after all this time ethan still hasn\'t learned that his whole aggro schtick doesn\'t, like, open anyone\'s eyes, or raise anyone\'s consciousness. instead, it tends to drive people further into racism, further into hostility, further into antipathy.

or at least, that\'s been the effect on me, quite frankly: i feel warier (and wearier) of the whole issue, and i feel like i\'ve become a person less likely to speak up against racism, or against a racial injustice, as a DIRECT consequence of reading ilx and ethan\'s posts. and it\'s not just the \"i find him so grating that anything he stands for, i\'m against\" thing, either.

which sucks because sometimes ethan posts some seriously funny and observant shit, but only like 15% of the time.

2 - wait, so about the bicurious link, jess isn\'t hinting that he and ethan sucked each other off, is he? (see 3333333333\'s post)

maybe this is old news but it\'s kind of a SHOCKAH to me, that is if that\'s the clue i\'m supposed to be getting.

sorry for logging out but i\'m a pussy.

clear cache, Friday, 7 April 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck just happened to my post with those slashes and shit?

clear cache, Friday, 7 April 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah like you ever log in. nice baiting with the homophobia, too.

gear (gear), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

"Some dude on the internet made me hate blacks more." Yeah, that'll fly.

phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

if you're such a thumb-twiddling fence-sitter that some dude on the internet will push you over onto the "i'm so tired of hearing minorities bitch and moan" side, something tells me you had some kind of bullshit ingrained in you long before you hit ilx

gear (gear), Friday, 7 April 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

dude i would have written the same thing if jess were a girl! i could give a fuck what the genders are, i just thought it was a bombshell. fuck off with your homophobia accusations.

xpost yes because "i hate blacks more" is exactly what i wrote. well done.

clear cache, Friday, 7 April 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

if jess were a girl, he and ethan couldn't exactly have sucked each other off, so you wouldn't have written the same thing

gear (gear), Friday, 7 April 2006 01:11 (twenty years ago)

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Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

"white people get so excited when they get the chance to say wigga"

clear cache, Friday, 7 April 2006 02:05 (twenty years ago)

i smell indie guilt.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:05 (twenty years ago)

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5185/cagle052xu.gif

and

http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/CARI.McKinney.gif

from here

kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/{56A36DF2-2D01-4348-BD14-B8C7C4E60335}.gif

kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Feel free to show me the daylight between "drive people further into racism" and "hate blacks more."

phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 7 April 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

haha 'pro-authority lockstep' SHE'S A CONGRESSWOMAN FFS.

25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Friday, 7 April 2006 09:39 (twenty years ago)

The Washington Post addresses the hair issue.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

McKinney just said on the Bill Maher show that she'll be wearing her pin from now on.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

I only just realized what's really funny about that last cartoon above: the guard wouldn't have much trouble recognizing her if her purse really did say "CYNTHIA McKINNEY" in big block letters on the side.

There's some weird level of cartoon-convention suspension of disbelief going on there that's kind of hurting my head.

nabiscothingy, Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

mckinney is so big in the cartoons and the security guard so small.

poor guy, makes you wonder how with his diminutive stature he can guard anything at all.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to see those cartoons redrawn with this guy as the cop: http://monkeydyne.com/rmcs/chars/nick2.gif

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 8 April 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

since we all know that this white guard was just trying to do his job and put the black lady back in her place.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 8 April 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know anything about this:

American Blackout
Directed by Ian Inaba

This stylish, intelligent, and timely documentary examines the disenfranchisement of the black vote through the lens of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's (D-Georgia) political career.

George W. Bush’s narrow victory in 2000 launched an historic investigation into Florida’s election process. Mainstream media focused on dysfunctional ballots and Supreme Court litigation, but McKinney investigated the private company hired by Florida to generate voter lists, which effectively strangled the black vote and handed Bush an unlikely victory. Inaba reveals how black political power is systematically squelched, including the slander McKinney endured when she stood up to the Bush administration on 9/11 and Iraq, and political machinations that disempowered the black vote in the Georgia Democratic primaries and the presidential election in 2004.

American Blackout shows how African Americans are fighting a war inside our country for their right to vote and Inaba reminds us how incredibly important this fight is to the fate of all Americans.

http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=77

C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
five months pass...

Former U.S. Rep. McKinney enters presidential race as Green
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is running for president as a member of the Green Party, which she says shares her views on ending the Iraq war, protecting the environment and other issues.

McKinney, who served five terms in Congress before losing her seat to a fellow Democrat last year, declared her candidacy in a video posted late Sunday on the Web site of a group that had been drafting her to run.

"The Democrats are no different than their Republican counterparts, eat out of the hands of corrupt lobbyists and feed at the same corporate trough. I am proud to say that the Green Party is my new political home," McKinney said in the taped announcement.

McKinney's name will appear on ballots in California, Illinois, Arkansas and several other states holding presidential primaries on Feb. 5, according to www.runcynthiarun.org.

gershy, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

oh no

So, the figure wasn't six million after all?? What about those punished and even imprisoned for saying so?? Is this a "You can't say, but I can" kind of thing?? https://t.co/14bHxV0hOX

— Cynthia McKinney PhD (@cynthiamckinney) May 16, 2020

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 07:15 (five years ago)

great revive

a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 07:51 (five years ago)

conspiracy shit always boils down to this sooner or later it seems

no (Left), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 09:09 (five years ago)

there is huge distinction between challenging a genocidal death toll between 5m+ and 6m+ and denying that it ever happened. I'm not saying I agree with the historian quoted in that Haaretz piece and even if he was right it still wouldn't vindicate the type of scumbags who have fallen foul of Holocaust Denial laws like this Cynthia McK seems to be suggesting.

calzino, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 09:50 (five years ago)

welp
*fills in “rampant antisemitism from a (formerly) famous black person” square on the “2020 is a cesspool” bingo card*

DJP, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 10:57 (five years ago)

I looked up Robert David Steele, the right-wing conspiracy maniac recently discussed in the batshit rightwing cartoons thread, and on his website he advertises a podcast or lecture series or something or other where his co-host is...Cynthia McKinney.

but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 12:55 (five years ago)


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