Pol Invokes Imus Slur Over King Portrait

AP via SFGate ^ | 4/11/7 | SHANNON McCAFFREY

[SmithL]

ATLANTA, (AP) -- A bid to hang Coretta Scott King's portrait in the state Capitol died in committee Wednesday, with the chief supporter comparing the failure to Don Imus' slur against the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

The resolution would have urged the Capitol Standards Arts Commission to hang the portrait next to a picture of her late husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but the three-member House Special Rules Committee declined to move the proposal Wednesday.

"It's just like calling Mrs. King a nappy-headed (N-word)," state Rep. Roberta Abdul-Salaam, told reporters after the hearing.

"It's another example of blatant disrespect for black women in 2007," said Abdul-Salaam, a Democrat. "It's worse than what Don Imus did."

[Pete]

Good grief. Victim-mentality alert.

[agere_contra]

Did anyone say “Its another Selma” yet?

[jackv]

I take it she’s black? They’re the only ones allowed to use the n word aren’t they?

[Sue Perkick]

Just when I thought it couldn’t get more stupid.

[doodad]

I saw this in the local rag earlier. I will have to google up her district so I know to stay out of it.

[reagan_fanatic]

"It's just like calling Mrs. King a nappy-headed (N-word)," state Rep. Roberta Abdul-Salaam

Idiots all.

[SeaBiscuit]

Sickening.. race baiters, they won’t be happy until they create race riots and someone dies.

[SmithL]

Representative Roberta Abdul-Salaam

District 74 Democrat
Represents part of Clayton and part of Fayette Counties
Elected to the House of Representatives in 2005

http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/house/bios/Abdul-Salaam,%20Roberta/abdulsalaam,%20roberta.htm

[doodad]

http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/house/bios/abdulsalaamRoberta/abdulsalaamRoberta.htm

Her pic and bio is there.

[Sue Perkick]

Can you believe this? LOL.

[stockpirate]

“Abdul-Salaam, a Democrat” go figure.

Well in truth she has done nothing I am aware of on the level to have her picture hung anywhere.

Also, I supported MLK, but not his mission. :-)

[Jeffrey_D.]

How do people like this walk around with such huge chips on their shoulders? I would think it would be very tiring ....oh wait, it is.

[Liberty Valance]

I’ll invoke another Imus saying:
“What a pant-load”

[beezdotcom]

Looks like Melinda Dolittle on American Idol....no neck.

[geezerwheezer]

Abdul Salaam is a 1st class fool. All Coretta Scott King did was play the part of the professional widow, and she played it well. Her legacy is that she raised a bunch of losers as children, looted the King Memorial (including his papers) for all it was worth, and did as little as possible to further her husband’s dreams. If there was no money to be made on the deal, you sure didn’t see Coretta Scott King, or any of her children, participate, nor support that cause. I sure don’t want her portrait hanging in my statehouse, and I’m glad the arts committee turned it down.

[Tokra]

Yes, Ms. "Abdul-Salaam" - let's get rid of our "slave names" and name ourselves after those who started and operated the slave trade - the muslim slavers.

Makes perfect sense.

I'm thinking of getting rid of my "Feudal serfdom" name and changing it to something snappy like "Atilla the Hun" or "Genghis Khan".

[doodad]

And don’t forget the full time police assigned to her who allowed security bypasses at the airport. And the stories of attendents being told not to address her or look at her.

[geezerwheezer]

Delta Airlines always put her in First Class, and more than likely, didn’t even charge her airfare. As a multi-million mile passenger on Delta, I finally had enough of her B.S. on a flight to San Francisco when her “entourage” told us (flight crew and passengers both) that we were not to speak with her unless spoken to first by her. That went over like a lead balloon, and I told her handler he best not bring her on board that flight as I paid for my flight and no stupid SOB was going to tell me who I could, and couldn’t, speak to. I was royally pissed, and let them, and Delta, know it in no uncertain terms. I understand she took a later flight as Delta found out the passengers on my flight were really angry, and were not in the mood to kiss anyone’s a$$ on a long flight to San Francisco.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

What is beyond the pale about the King Family was the way that the issue of disposition of the collected MLK Jr. papers was handled. The Mayor of Atlanta went on an 11th hour emergency mission to shake down big money in Atlanta to get a total of $32M which would purchase the papers before Sotheby’s could auction them off. All you saw in the press locally was how close we had come to losing this precious treasure. Well it was part of Coretta Scott King’s estate - and it was her 4 children who established the price of $32M to avoid the auction (which may have split up the various pieces (and which may have brought, in the aggregate, a lot less than $32M). The way the AJC handled it - it was as if there were this mysterious entity that had established $32M - and that we, Atlanta, could not risk being too cheap to keep this collection in town... etc., etc., etc., when it was entirely the greed of the children that established the price.