Is It Really 2006?

I find it appalling that in the year 2006, you have someone who aspires to be President waxing nostalgic about plantations and trying to 'get a witness' during what should have been a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr's legacy. 

It is doubly disgusting to hear a mental midget go on and on about a "Chocolate City".  I believe you'll see in my post of "Four Things" that I love chocolate and if there is a city made of it (aside from Hershey, Pennsylvania, of course) I'm there.  However, there was no doubt in MY mind what Ray Nagin was jawing about when he spouted off about New Orleans being rebuilt as a "chocolate city" the way God intended.  Can you imagine if a white mayor whose town had been wiped away by a hurricane (not because God is mad, but because corruption and mismanagement had meant money appropriated for levee upgrades was spent elsewhere) started talking about a Cool Whip town or something as ridiculous as that?  (Thanks, once again, to Michelle Malkin who follows these things so diligently!)

I'm wondering why there isn't more moral outrage on the part of those who flipped their collective lids when Trent Lott made a remark in a birthday toast of sorts to a 100-year-old codger?

In looking at the administration today, I see an eclectic mix of genders, races, ages and areas of expertise such that any person who aspires to greatness can see a bit of themselves in someone serving in DC.  I think the harping about things that are meant to do nothing but divide is cheap and demeaning.  It's also disheartening when intelligent people won't look that kind of reverse bigotry in the face and say, "No more." 

I didn't hear anything or read anything created by Dr. King that would have suggested racism and bigotry in any measure would be tolerated.  Bastardizing the day set aside to celebrate his legacy makes me sick to my stomach and those who engaged in that activity should be ashamed of themselves.

Comments

[tmcd]

Do you know what "waxing nostalgic" means? Obviously not, since, whatever your feeling on Hillary's statement, she certainly wasn't "waxing nostalgic."

[Some Soldier's Mom]

I believe that people have come to believe that they can say anything racist they wish on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and get away with it. I can't believe the crap some morons spew... Racism really knows no color.