If Liz were Queen

Donna Brazile (a political consultant, a frequent commentator on CNN and who also managed Al Gore’s 2000 Presidential campaign) upset more than a few black people for declining to take a side until Hillary Clinton had dropped out of the race.  But at a recent New Yorker festival, Donna, whom I admire to no small degree, “told it like it is.”  When we have people like Mr. Lunsford acting out his small minded racist murder fantasies and when no one from the McCain campaign has the guts to go up to his house, ask him to remove his McCain/Palin signs and tell him that they don’t want his vote, and that he is wrong-minded in his prejudice, well perhaps it’s time to listen to Donna’s words again.

I’m gonna say it and get it off my chest, because for the next thirty days, I’m gonna be the best Catholic woman ever….As a child who grew up in the segregated Deep South, we’ve come so far in this country….But I remember when I used to get on the bus: my mother would tell me, “Donna, when you get on the bus, you and your brothers go all the way to the back, and don’t look at anybody.” We have changed. This is a more tolerant, open, progressive society. And yet, we’re having this conversation because [Obama] is biracial. He spent nine months in the womb of a white woman. He was raised…by his white grandparents…He got out of school and went to Harvard, and all of a sudden he’s “uppity” and there’s something wrong with him? What is wrong with us?…You can vote against him, but don’t ever put me in the back of the bus. I’m not going to the back of the bus! I’m not going to be afraid! My black skin does not make me inferior! And may I add: being a female does not make me dumb!

Here is a link to the video of that event.

MAY THE WORLD BE FILLED WITH MORE PEOPLE WHO WILL STAND UP AND SAY:  NOT THIS TIME.  NOT THIS YEAR.  NOT EVER MORE!  NOT FOR BLACK PEOPLE.  NOT FOR WHITE PEOPLE.  WE ARE MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER AND THOSE THAT REFUSE WILL STILL REAP THE BENEFITS OF THE GOOD THAT THE REST OF US DO TOGETHER.