I have noticed that she is getting no back-up from her fellow Dems. I saw this AM that the Congressional Black Caucus is urging her to put it behind as quickly as possible.
Honestly as much as I (generally speaking) loathe politicians, think about what she is doing to
all her fellow Representatives (of whom there are a greater % of decent human beings than Senators).
There probably are a couple of genuine racists in the Capitol Police, and there are probably a couple of genuine non-racists to whom blacks all look alike, just as there are plenty of Sudanese and Japanese to whom all redheads with green eyes look alike (Heck, I'm as white as can be, and if you put too many redheads with green eyes in the same room with me
I even start to get confused as to who's who), anyhoo -
if her little
"do't you day'er mess wit' me, you racist s.o.b., I's be a idepedant, perr'owd, stro'ong black womans" act had been successfully pulled off those genuine racists and genuinely non-racist-but-can't-tell-them-apart capitol police would be letting through the checkpoint every black between 20 and 80 who walked fast around the checkpoint and snarled "I'm a congressman/woman" over their shoulder at the police who challenged them. As a matter of fact if it
had worked the capitol police would have been justified (IMHO) in letting a few of their (locally known, annoying but mostly harmless) vagrants and winos wander in to start disrupting things and begging change to make their point.
IF McKinney really wanted to make amends, she would announce "Mea Culpa", and offer to pay the Police Officer assaulted a reasonable fee for his pain/suffering, and more importantly job related emotional stress pain, offer a 10,000 dollar grant (paid out of her own pocket) to the capitol hill police department to offer overtime to their officers to sit in the House procedings and memorize faces and who's who, and offer to plead guilty to the DA, and throw herself on the mercy of the judge regarding her penalty for simple assault mitigated by her extensive making of amends (and under those conditions, in DC, she could probably expect about a 5 dollar fine, possibly a medal of honor). She'd then begin a "friendship with the peons who protect us" campaign in the house to encourage all house members to make it a habit to have numerous capitol police officers invited and encouraged to attend by the Capitol police leadership, as guests, each of their 'wine and dine and meet the bigwigs' shindigs that occur locally. I guarantee that free food, booze and chatting with bigshots on a friendly level would bring almost every capitol police officer into a pretty intimate knowledge of exactly what all the congressmen/women look like.
