Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 15
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Really Sad
[Read the article: Hair today, gone tomorrow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I live in the metro Atlanta area in my house as a young college student. I was trying to watch Jay Leno last night, as I heard that Bill Maher was on "in rare form," according to my brother; but apparently after the commercial break, the local NBC affiliate channel 11 cut off Leno to show Cynthia McKinney's concession speech live...
..and it was just a mess as was described!
The lady first started waiting on her parents to show up, and then, she gave some long-winded speech about how much she had suffered against the media and how she was against the first Gulf War and all that while she was being egged on like it was a church sermon (I had tuned out by then -- I started complaining about it on my laptop), and they DID sing (thanks for naming the song!), and 11 Alive (our local NBC news) started showing her supporters crying in the audience during it all, and I couldn't take it, anymore! I normally avoid TV like the plague, and I don't like Leno, but the one time in the longest I decide to eagerly watch his show, this bullshit happens! I was wondering why in hell they didn't just cut off the cameras, cut some of this short, and wait until she says something important, or at least have both the Leno broadcast and this running in a picture-in-picture format after a certain minute-mark or something, so people can watch what we want to watch while we wait for McKinney to get over herself. (Oh, yeah -- I missed the part where the brawl happened) Sorry I sound like those morons who grumbled when Arafat died and all they wanted was their CSI, but really, is a concession speech supposed to go on for 20, 30, 40 minutes?!?
So while all of you in the rest of the country can point at this video and laugh, keep in mind that those of us who live in the Clayton, Fulton, and Dekalb counties (one of the counties McKinney represents), and elsewhere all over the metro Atlanta area had to suffer through this because we wanted to watch Maher on Leno.
It's sad, too. I remember defending this lady when that incident with the Capitol cop happened, and I remember this happening around the time of the Coretta Scott King funeral, too, so some of the local media made it look as if all black Democrats (as well as all Democrats, important to remember...) are batshit insane with no tact whatsoever, and then some girl in the Georgia State University newspaper (I attend GSU) wrote some insipidly and badly written editorial about how McKinney is "an embarrassment to all of Georgia." And yeah, maybe there was some sort of conspiracy-level agenda to kick her out -- maybe, maybe not. But really, McKinney did it to herself: first, by assuming that she'd get unconditonal and unequivocal support all over for the incident with the cop with just cries of "racism" alone; and then, with refusing to go to the primary debates and just bad-mouthing Johnson basically behind his back; and then, by making unsubstantiated claims like her name wasn't on all the ballots; and then, saying the stuff she was saying about Israel and Hezbollah, as if all of Georgia, or at least her constituency (she represents Dekalb, which is very Democratic, but then, represents parts of both Rockdale and Gwinnett counties, too, which are somewhat Republican), wasn't susceptible to Republicanism in any way (I mean, Georgia went for Bush TWICE; and we DO have a Republican governor and house and senate; and apparently, going by our Supreme Court's ruling on the gay marriage ban, that's Republican, too -- I mean, TOTAL flukes, right?!), so she could just make wild claims and hope that the media would listen to her more as someone with an argument to make and less as a crazy crackpot.
She just played it dumb, dumb, dumb, and it's really sad, because the House could stand to have more independent-minded people like her and less jerks who just vote depending on how the wind blows, like my Congressperson, David Scott, another black Democrat, who voted for that stupid "Pledge Protection Act." She really did herself in with her own pride; and after that joke of a concession speech, it's really a wonder whether she can make a comeback this time or not. They even have a freeway named after her. A booth, too, in South Dekalb Mall. They really liked this woman. It's sad.
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Oppression Question
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Methinks religion, threats of violence, lack of alternative ideas from elsewhere, and the sheer power of peer pressure may have something to do with why women put up with traditional patriarchy for so long. For instance, a lot of the instigators and perpetuators of modern-day female genital mutilation, more regularly known as female "circumcision," are women themselves. Their excuses for still practicing that are that they want their daughters to fit in, and then, they point to what the men in the area prefer, and then, they do that to their daughters so that they can get married, and thus, survive (or so they think). The wish to survive can make people put up with a lot of crap, or otherwise, change their whole belief systems in the name of fitting in or feeling more comfortable, like that Mars Hill member who puts up with being a baby factory even though every old impulse in her tells her it's degrading to have kids she doesn't really want...(and then, she'll make excuses, too...), or like those Democrats who became Republican after 9/11. People will do almost anything for God Points. Hell, I almost reconverted to Christianity, but I have Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and their blaming of the gays and feminists for 9/11, and a really dumb sermon the Saturday right after, to thank for steering me right back to half-assed atheism.
It's kind of strange how every religion on this planet requires female submission to males, doesn't it?