So the House today passed a resolution to admonish Rep. Joe Wilson. Who famously yelled "You Lie!" as President Obama delivered a health care reform address to a joint session of Congress last Wednesday. Also today. . .
In an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., says that people will put on "white hoods and ride through the countryside" if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Rep. Joe Wilson, are not rebuked. *Foxnews
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So now the official race card has been played. I remember my dealings with it in the mid 1990's. The statement made in my case was "if you let them keep playing that song, then soon they'll be leading you around in chains." The song was the melody to Dixie. It was played as an opening theme to the section in the "American Tradition" show that represented the Civil War. Two antiphonal trumpets played it as the band remained bowed at the waist. As the band came in and began to raise up, the theme changed into Amazing Grace. One of my best arrangements and in my eyes and those of the students, one that clearly represented the travesties of the war and the grace that saved this country at it's conclusion.
I thought I would have a hard time writing this. I always worry (and so do my fellow Convoginators) that I will get myself in trouble with some of the things I put on here. Well, if I'm not mistaken, this is still the United States of America, and one of my rights is Freedom of Speech. So I am exercising that. In this city, the ugly, multi-headed hydra of racism has risen it's head once again. A volunteer deputy, used a racial slur to refer to an altercation that was taking place during the Labor Day weekend. This "word" was announced across the law enforcement radios as the gentleman put on his pants and "accidently" held down the microphone key. Needless to say, this has caused quite the "row" here in the birthplace of Bill Clinton.
All this to say, I believe it is in poor judgement that our elected leaders begin to even utter the idea of the KKK or racial impunities inside government buildings. Then again, what do I know? I'm just a stupid tech guy.
**UPDATE: Now Jimmy Carter, you know the idiot former president that just will not leave the spotlight, has now weighed in on the debacle. He too, believes that Joe Wilson is a racist.
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