Congress: Look to New York City

[acroyear]

From a comment at scienceblogs: Rep. McKinney and the police officer should apologize to each other and shake hands, and then everyone should get on with their lives. This whole incident is considerably smaller than the sum of its parts.

I'd just LOVE for that to be the case, but the shooting incident in New York City's City Hall tells me otherwise. Security at a place like the House should be *absolute*. If you don't have what credentials you're supposed to be carrying, you are pulled aside, period.

The day someone can just yell "I'm a congressman" and run past the gates without any interference is the day congress itself gets assassinated.

I hate it, but New York's incident showed us exactly what can happen and McKinney for her "I'm the race victim here" arrogance is simply asking for her own death and causing EVERYBODY to miss the real story here.

The guard did his job.  If you don't have what you're supposed to have, you don't get in.  Period.

Comments

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

If it really is an issue of race/sex bias, what have other African American women in Congress done about it? (FYI, I googled the demographics, and found that there are 81 women in Congress, including 12 African American women, as well as delegates from VI and DC).

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

What about African American men? Are they being harrassed, too?

Or is it just her?

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