A white person from McKinney's District gives perspective.... [View All]

[BooScout]

I have debated about posting this. I know many are sick of the subject and it's a divisive one, but I thought I could educate a few people who are not aware of what McKinney has gone thru.

I currently live in the UK but just moved here last fall from the Atlanta area. Specifically Cynthia McKinney's district. Good old Liberal Dekalb County.

Let me tell you a few things some will be afraid to say on an open forum. McKinney is hated in many areas of Dekalb county. I have heard good white liberals say to my face (thinking that because I am a good white lunatic left liberal I will agree with them).....that McKinney is just an uppity n*****. When I jump on their case for such statements they don't seem to care. They view her as getting 'above herself' and being nothing but a troublemaker. When I point out her voting record they don't care. They simply focus on her abrasive style........the fact that she's African American and shouldn't act that way. Right after 911 they wanted to crucify her for daring to call Bush on the carpet for knowing more about 911 than he was telling. How dare she make such ludicrous charges againts Bush when the nation needed unifying right now? .......folks these were Liberals, jumping on her because she questioned the President in a time of national crisis....never mind that her comments at the time were bang on accurate......she spoke out when it was not her place to do so (exactly when her place to do so I will never understand if I follow their naysayer thinking). They will never like her in some large areas of Dekalb county. Yes it is liberal.......but there is still a racial divide right thru half the county. Good white liberals in the north and good black liberals in the South.

The divide is not spoken of publically, but it's there. It's been there for a long, long time.

I haven't said eactly what I wanted to say, but I see a lot of unpoken words on posts about this issue and I wanted to get it out....albiet rather poorly. What made me finally decide to post on it was when I went to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution this morning and they led off their opinion about her hairstyle....then they launched into an attack on her 'arrogance, hauty position, being offensive, and made comments twisting her own words.... of her being mistaken for the 'hired help' .... You tell me what national paper is going to lead off an editorial about Tom Delay's hairstyle and other such so-called descriptive terms and .........and perhaps I'll change my mind. Until then.......America still has a racial divide and frankly it's very, very sad.