Michelle Malkin brought this article to my attention today:
A state lawmaker angrily lashed out at a legislative committee this morning after it rejected her request to hang a portrait of Coretta Scott King in the state Capitol, saying the committee’s action was comparable to calling King an N-word.
Rep. Roberta Abdul-Salaam (D-Riverdale) also asserted that the House Special Rules Committee’s action was worse than radio shock jock Don Imus calling the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.”
“It is just like calling Mrs. King a nappy-headed (N-word),” Abdul-Salaam told reporters after the committee rejected House Resolution 376, killing it for this legislative session.
“There is already talk about boycotting in this country. We just need to really expand it to Georgia, if necessary,” she said. “It is absolutely time to realize that you cannot continue to conduct yourselves in such a manner and think that there will be no repercussions.”
This situation is the text book definition of the “Victim Mentality.” Some people will use every single thing that doesn’t go their way as proof of racism and victim hood, and it is just as sickening as true racism. Why? Because each time this happens, it diminishes the damage caused and outrage at true racism. True racism should always be abhorrent to people, and should always generate tremendous outrage. However, when people continually make huge media blow-ups over situations like this, and scream “racism!” at the top of their lungs to every newspaper and television reporter they can find, it desensitizes people to the point where they almost ignore racist acts entirely.
As an aside, I have no idea what this lady is talking about when she says that there “is already talk about boycotting in this country.” Did I miss something? Is there some group of people planning some type of nation-wide boycott of someone or something?
