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| U.S. Senator says Black Nominee will be Lynched |
| 11.15.03 (7:39 am) [edit] |
Peoples’ Army Alert
[b]Health Warning:[/b] Old white men should reframe from 40-hour talk marathons. It may cause insensitivity, delirium and a distortion of history.
This warning comes at the heels of Senator Zell Miller’s (GA) comments on the senate floor during the republican led 40-hour judicial gabfest.
Miller, a democrat, claimed that federal district
appellate court nominee Janice Rogers Brown is lynched
because she is African American. Here’s the actual
quote, "this African-American woman will not be given
an up-or-down vote, because the Democrats in this
chamber refuse to stand and let her do it, they're
standing in the doorway, and they've got a sign:
conservative African-American women need not apply.
And if you have the temerity to do so, your reputation
will be shattered and your dignity will be shredded.
[b]Gal, you will be lynched[/b]."
It is a sad day for America when a long serving U.S. Senator does not understand the emotional and
psychological effects that the history of lynching
have on people of color in this nation. If you are
challenged in this understanding, just think of the
Jewish Holocaust. People need to remind Sen. Miller
that lynchings are nothing like the political gang
banging in Washington, they are more like the gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
The filibustering of judicial nominees are the continum
of a long-standing political ideological battle. A difference of opinion about how judges should rule on prevailing issues of worker’s rights, reproductive choice, gay rights, civil rights and the like.
Lynching was painfully about fear, intimidation, mutilation, public display and humiliation.
Someone get Sen. Miller a history book. Better yet,
someone ask him to join Sen. Trent Lott (MS) as he
visits the King Center in Atlanta. The center
dedicated to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
houses one of the least known national treasures, an
exhibit called "Without Sanctuary."
"Without Sanctuary" is a horrifying display of
historical records of the very legal practice of
lynching in the United States, which occurred as late
as the 1960s. Blacks in the south and Chinese victims
in the west were found hanging from trees while white
families watched with enjoyment and ate popcorn. Its
true, go to the King Center and you can view the
photographs with your own eyes.
California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown
may be deserving and fit to serve the post G.W.
nominated her to. And maybe the Democrats are being
unfair by filibustering, an act that prevents her an
up or down vote on the full senate floor. She clearly
would receive the 51 votes needed for confirmation.
So Brown is definitely caught in the political cross
hairs, but there is no logical reasoning to compare
her to a burnt and mutilated Black body hanging from a
tree limb above a raucous crowd.
In recent weeks, Sen. Miller has rebuked democrats and
presidential candidate Howard Dean in particular for
misperceiving southern whites. Miller feels that
democrats views southerners as if their regional home is still the old Jim Crow South.
In his new book, [i]A National Party No More[/i], Miller explains that this view of the south has alienated white southerners from the Democratic Party and encourages them to vote republican. He could be right, but statements comparing a filibuster of an African American judicial nominee to a lynching will keep northerners and outsiders believing that the South hadn’t changed at all.
-Proletariat
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posted by: SamAdams (reply)
post date: 11.15.03 (7:50 am)
The dishonest Republican hypocrites tried in vain to turn the rejection of incompetent appointees to the court (neo-con right-wing extremists with a neo-fascist agenda), into a racial and a feminist issue.
Most Americans see it for the BUNK, it is ... We're not going to allow this country to be turned into a neo-feudal, neo-fascist slave state to enrich the corrupt 'corporate-take-all' whores & sluts, as the Bushies intend to do.
posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 11.15.03 (7:54 am)
Miller, Santorum, DeLay are all cynical and dishonest politicos in the pockets of corporations.
I'm black and am glad that justices with extreme views not representative of the mainstream are rejected.
The attempt to label Dems racist or anti-women because they reject mediocre and extremist people to the bench, simply doesn't resonate with minorities or women.
This time, the race card simply has no legs.
posted by: IconoclasticDeer (reply)
post date: 11.15.03 (8:14 am)
it was a stupid statement and people should be more sensitive to the feelings of others
i don't like zell miller and think he is a very ignorant man
posted by: WinstonSmith (reply)
post date: 11.15.03 (8:32 am)
Democrats have to persuade poor, dumb idiots who vote Republican (who slash their services, cut jobs, and enrich the rich-- while starving their kids of education) ... that it is not in their best interest ... The recent skirmishes over Confederate Flag (an anacronistic symbol that represents a terrible period of our history-- to many stands for slavery) and Supreme Court justices, didn't create the furor among minorities that the Republicans hoped for ... Most Americans are concerned about jobs, the economy and the war in Iraq.
It is time for people to step-outside of emotive issues (flag, abortion, etc.) and to focus upon ECONOMICS and LIFE-and-DEATH (war) ... If they do, Bush will be out of office in 2004.
posted by: jimmytherighteous (reply)
post date: 11.16.03 (1:49 am)
Zell Miller has also decided to endorse Shrub for the presidency next year. A Republican hiding in Democrat's clothing is still a Republiscum.
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