Last week Rep.Charles Rangel made some racist comparisons between Bull Conner and George Bush.Rangel has made further elaborations on
this:
"For decades in the '20s and '30s, black folks were killed, maimed, tortured, and lynched in the South," Mr. Rangel told The New York Sun. "And the good people did nothing about it. And then came the blowing up of children in the churches - Emmett Till, and Bull Connor, with the dogs lashing out against the young people, and the fire hoses." Emmett Till was the black teenager whose 1955 murder in Mississippi intensified the civil rights movement.
"And because of the Bull Connors," Mr. Rangel said, "the American people said enough is enough." Connor, Mr. Rangel said, "woke up the country in terms of racism, and maybe the indifference of Bush can wake up the country in terms of not having tax cuts but ending poverty."
I guess Charles Rangel in his loopy logic thinks tax cuts mean racism.He's not the only one supporting this logic.Rangel has support:
A Democrat who represents Brooklyn on New York's City Council, Charles Barron, concurred with that sentiment. "I think that's an insult to Connor," he said of Mr. Rangel's statement. "George Bush is worse, because he has more power and he's more destructive to our people than Bull Connor will ever be."
For example, Mr. Barron said, "A KKK without power is not as bad as a George Bush with power."
Remember this is an elected official saying this.No word yet on the New York Times putting this on page one.
