Uppity

The American Thinker ^ | Jan. 11, 2005 | Matthew May

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According to certain self-proclaimed leaders in the House of Representatives, if you are black, hold a political office, and have a healthy respect for carrying out your constitutional duties in spite of what that might mean for the electoral fortunes of the Democratic Party, you are a traitor to your race and shame should be heaped upon you until your dying day.

This is the message that was sent yet again to one black man in particular last Thursday from the Democratic side of the floor of the House of Representatives. That man is Kenneth Blackwell, the secretary of state of Ohio. Blackwell happens to be black and he also happens to be a conservative who has a promising political future in the Republican Party. Congressional Democrats, though, circled the wagons to see that yet another black conservative was branded as “controversial” and straying from “correct” kind of thinking.

Last Thursday, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio and Sen. Barbara Boxer

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Shrill liberals like Barbara Boxer are always the biggest racists of them all.