Todd Stroger's Dirty Little Race War

We knew that Todd Stroger and his supporters would play the race card during his re-election for President of the Cook County Board. Even we, however, did not expect the Stroger camp to drag the Democrat primary election fight this low. Alex Parker reports that "a number of leaflets using racist language, purportedly being distributed by his supporters, are outlining an 'Irish' conspiracy allegedly coordinated by Mayor Richard M. Daley, Gov. Pat Quinn and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to keep Stroger out of office." Parker's post, at Chicago Current, goes on to say that "The fliers, which claim to be from the so-called 'Soldiers for Stroger,' encourage voters to vote for Stroger 'in the spirit of Black History Month and Dr. King’s birthday.' Yet they call the Daley, Quinn and Madigan 'massa,' and disparage a number of other local politicos. The Illinois Review blog was the first to report on the fliers." RELATED: Stroger Ad Goes for the Race Card - Publius Forum Soldiers for Stroger circulate leaflet accusing [Michael] Madigan of racist plot Illinois Review: 'Soldier-for-Stroger' explains Black/Irish war in Democrat Primary Tony Peraica Says Stroger "Unelectable" - Chicago News Bench Video Cook County's Cavalcade of Idiots - Chicago News Bench Bill Clinton Wants Obama to Bring More Coffee Isaac Hayes Says Racist Harry Reid Must Go Leave a Comment * Conservative T-Shirts * Follow CNB on Twitter * RSS Feed

Barack Nifong Obama, Racist Dolt

You may remember the false charges brought against the Duke University lacrosse players in 2006. The District Attorney in that case, Michael Nifong, was convicted on charges of hiding evidence, lying, and perpetrating fraud on the court. More recently, Barack Obama made false charges against a Cambridge police officer for his response to Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Obama said that the officer overreacted and hinting at racism on the part of the police. Nifong was punished for lying, and for bringing distress to people who did not deserve it. When will Obama be made to pay a similar price for a similar offense? Leave a Comment... See Our Online Store Chicago News Bench RSS Feed We're on Twitter...

The Left's Shameful Slurring of Monkey Cartoonist

Racist caricature of Condi Rice,
as found on many left websites

For eight years, the left has portrayed Condi Rice in racist and sexist graphics. Now, leftists are angry about a cartoon that mocks Obama – who they wrongly think is the main author of the Stimulus Bill.

The shameful attacks on New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas continue. It is fed only by ignorance and a hypocritical effort by the Left to portray opponents to Barack Obama's economic policies as racists. To the Left, anybody who disagrees with them about nearly anything is a "racist" or "Nazi.")

The cartoon in question shows two cops standing over a chimpanzee that has been shot dead.

The Sean Delonas cartoon that riled the Left

One cop says to the other, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next Stimulus Bill" as smoke comes from his pistol. The poor ape lays dead, riddled with bullet holes.

Ignorant people nationwide jumped to the wrong conclusion that Delonas's cartoon was portraying Barack Obama as a chimp (many incorrectly say "monkey").

Among those idiots is Julian Sancton, who wrote about the cartoon in a slanderous article at Vanity Fair. That article was titled "Sean Delonas: Stupid, Racist, or Both?"

In his article, Sancton wrote, "I'm struggling to find an interpretation of this that doesn't odiously compare Obama, who just signed the stimulus bill yesterday, to a monkey, resorting to one of the most wretched racist stereotypes."

But Sancton is the one who is stupid. He himself noted that Obama signed the bill. Obama did not write the bill; somebody else did. It's important to note that the cartoon cop says "They'll have to find someone else to write the next Stimulus Bill." He did NOT say "someone else to sign the next Stimulus Bill." That's important, and that's why the Delonas detractors are all stupidly wrong.

Again: Obama did not write the Stimulus Bill. Who did?
White guy David Obey (D-WI) is the bill's primary author.

As the New York Times pointed out, "Indeed, it was Mr. Obey, the third-most-senior member of the House, who, in large measure, shaped the bill, in concert with other House Democratic leaders."

So, if the cartoon compares anybody to the author of the Stimulus Bill, it's David Obey and/or "House Democratic leaders" collectively, not Barack Obama.

I wrote about this on Wednesday ("Obama Not Monkey Who Wrote Stimulus").

"One of the most wretched
racist stereotypes," unless
it's done it to a white guy

Is it not also racist to portray a white guy as a chimp? It's been done thousands of times to George W. Bush. Why is it only black people who can scream racism? We're all apes, right?

Today, I received a hysterical (as in panicked, not funny) email from a woman who lives on Chicago's north side (we'll call her "X").

She's a serial emailer, a social justice warrior, and an idiot. She loves to send and forward mass emails. I usually read them, then delete them after a good chuckle. But not this time.

Today's email from "X" was a forwarding of an ignorant rant from "colorofchange.org," and it moved me to respond "to all" with an explanation as to why they are so obviously wrong about the wrongly infamous cartoon.

The full text of X's email and my response are below; only names and email addresses have been removed. I have also inserted my notes. Graphics here were added by me for this post and were not included in my correspondence with "X." Excerpts from X's email appear below as indented blockquotes in italics.

As you read the letter from "X," ask yourself why she and others did not protest when their fellow Liberals depicted Condoleezza Rice and other African-Americans in racist ways.

Dear X, 

I respectfully disagree with you. Although I agree that portraying a black person as an ape or a monkey is just wrong, the cartoon in question simply did not do so. Here's why:
The cartoon says that they'll have to find someone else to write the next Stimulus Bill.

Well guess what - Barack Obama may have signed it, but he did NOT write it. Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, a white guy, is credited as the primary author. Others contributed to the writing of it. So if anybody could be seen as being compared to a monkey or ape, it would be the white man David Obey.

That being said, the cartoonist made no reference to Barack Obama. The implication of the cartoon is that even a chimpanzee could have written the bill, a commentary on the quality of the legislation. You can disagree with that; perhaps you like putting the nation into debt for a trillion dollars. That's not the point. The point is that there was nothing racist about that cartoon.

Only an ignorance of who actually wrote the bill - and of who did not - could lead one to panic and assume (incorrectly) that it was Barack Obama.
X, where were you when Condaleezza Rice was being portrayed by the Left in vicious, racist cartoons and photo manipulation? There seems to be a hypocrisy here, and an overblown one at that.

To those who disagree with me, I ask you: Who do you think wrote the Stimulus Bill? After you search for yourself and discover that it was not Mr. Obama, will you send around an email apologizing for the libeling of a cartoonist who is innocent of your charges?

Respectfully, Chicago News Bench

On Thursday, 2/19/09, X wrote:

From: X
Subject: about that New York Post cartoon
To: [X's group]

Yesterday, the day after President Obama signed the stimulus bill, his first major piece of legislation, the New York Post ran a cartoon depicting the bill's author as a dead monkey, covered in blood after being shot by police.

Another racist depiction of
Condi Rice by Democrats

MY NOTE: This was not Obama's "piece of legislation," as the New York Times explains. He signed it, but he did not write it. In the face of intense criticism, The Post's editor is standing by the cartoon, claiming it has no racial undertones, that it's not about Obama, and that it was simply referencing an incident earlier this week when police shot a pet chimpanzee (an argument that pundits and analysts simply aren't buying).

MY NOTE: SOME pundits and analysts aren't buying it, but plenty of others are. It's impossible to believe that any newspaper editor could be ignorant enough to not understand how this cartoon evokes a history of racist symbolism, or how frightening this image feels at a time when death threats against President Obama have been on the rise.

MY NOTE: It's difficult to believe that people can be so ignorant as to who actually wrote - and did not write - the Stimulus Bill. Notice that "X" offers no substantiation of her claim that death threats against Obama are "on the rise."

Please join us in demanding that The Post apologize publicly and fire the editor who allowed this cartoon to go to print: The Post would have us believe that the cartoon is not about Obama. But on the page just before the cartoon appears, there's a big picture of Obama signing the stimulus bill.

NOTE: The cartoon is NOT about Obama. See above. A reader paging through The Post would see Obama putting pen to paper, then turn the page to see this violent cartoon. The imagery is chilling.

NOTE: An ignorant reader who is unaware that Obama did not personally write the Stimulus Bill.

There is a clear history in our country of racist symbolism that depicts Black people as apes or monkeys, and it came up multiple times during the presidential campaign. We're also in a time of increased race-based violence. In the months following President Obama's election there has been a nationwide surge in hate crimes ranging from vandalism to assaults to arson on Black churches.

There has been an unprecedented number of threats gainst [sic] President Obama since he was elected, with hate-based groups fantasizing about the killing of the president. Just a week ago, a man drove from Louisiana to the Capitol with a rifle, telling the police who stopped him that he had a "delivery" for the president.

NOTE: Today's young black males kill more young black males in a year than the Ku Klux Klan killed in its entire history. Between 1882 and 1968, historians have documented more than 4,700 lynchings of African Americans, mostly in the South.

In 2005, the latest full year of FBI statistics, almost 8,000 black Americans were murdered, mostly by other black Americans. I lost count years ago as to how many times I heard Liberals tell me they'd love to shoot Dick Cheney or George W. Bush. But I guess it doesn't count as hateful if the threat is made against white men, particularly Republican white men.

There is no excuse for The Post to have allowed this cartoon to be printed, and even less for Editor Col Allan's outright dismissal of legitimate concerns. 

NOTE: There is no excuse for your vile lies about this cartoon, or your defamation of a cartoonist, based on your ignorance of who authored the Stimulus Bill.

But let's be clear about who's behind The Post: Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, the Post's owner, is the man behind FOX News Channel. FOX has continually attacked and denigrated Black people, politicians, and institutions at every opportunity, and we've run several campaigns to make clear how FOX poisons public debate.

NOTE: Let's be clear about who is behind the slanderous, libelous email. It's ignorant, race-baiting, hateful Leftists who don't care about the truth and are willing to crucify an innocent cartoonist just to score political points.

We don't expect much from Murdoch. However, with enough public pressure we can set the stage for advertisers and subscribers to think long and hard before patronizing outlets like the Post that refuse to be held accountable.

NOTE: I urge anybody interested in truth and justice to contact ColorOfChange.org and ask them why they are so ignorant about who wrote the Stimulus Bill and are so willing to defame the New York Post cartoonist.

AG Eric Holder, Race Baiter

Our new US Attorney General, a black man in a very high office, called the United States a "nation of cowards" when it comes to race and talking about race. Eric Holder, the nation's first African-American attorney general, insulted the entire country today when he spoke to Justice Department employees. The gathering was meant to highlight Black History Month. Would more and honest discussion of race relations be welcome? Sure they would, but what does Eric Holder think of Barack Obama's campaign last year doing back flips to prevent bringing the topic of race into any discussion about the election? He didn't go there. Holder did not acknowledge the fact that it was a whitefolk-controlled Congress that created Black History Month and Martin Luther King Day, and whitefolk-controlled state legislatures that adopted them both as state holidays. He did not mention the fact that a cartoonist is under attack today for showing a dead ape and referring to the author of the stimulus bill; the primary author was Rep. David Obey (D-WI), a white guy, but the lunatic Left is having a spasm of paranoid heebeejeebies by assuming it was a slur against Barack Obama, a white man with some African ancestory. Holder ignored the fact that "political correctness" has had a chilling effect on open and honest discussions of race and race relations. Holder did not mention the fact that there is no "White Congressional Caucus," but there is a "Black Congressional Caucus." Across the country, there are "Black Chambers of Commerce," but nobody dares have a "White Chamber of Commerce." The double standards of the Left are stunning. Holder did not mention that. Nor did he say how he feels about the fact that over 90 percent of Black Americans voted for Barack Obama because of race, and chose to vote agains John McCain because he was white. Whereas, on the other hand, tens of millions of whites and other non-blacks voted for Barack Obama, not caring that he is half black, because they are not obsessed with the race of a candidate - or anybody else, as Eric Holder admitted today that he is. Holders own words, from "Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Department of Justice African American History Month Program - Wednesday, February 18, 2009"... Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Though race related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race. Perhaps that's because that vast majority of us are not as obsessed with race as Holder and so many other liberals and Democrats are. I'm a white guy, and when I walk down the street or engage a stranger in conversation, I don't think in terms of race (unless it's thrown in my face by somebody like Eric Holder). Holder and his fellow travelers do, constantly, and they project their own paranoia and onto others. The chip on Holder's shoulder should not be ours to carry, but there he was today, trying to strap it onto our shoulders. The entire speech was an excercise in keeping whatever racial tensions there still are in the United States stirred up. Keep black people convinced that they are all kept down, all victims, and you have a nice constituency that looks to you, the Government Officials, for protection. That gets votes. Holder, Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and all the rest know that if Black Americans realize that Jim Crow is dead, that the Union won the Civil War, and that a black man is the Attorney General under a President who is half black, some might start to also realize that they no longer need to vote for liberals who offend the essentially conservative values of most Black Americans. As Diane Alden wrote, "By demonizing Republicans and conservatives the left can continue to impose the big lie, which will be accepted as gospel by minorities, whom Democrats believe 'owe' them." (Source) In other words, speeches like Holden's use partial truths to perpetuate a larger lie in order to perpetuate their political grip on minority groups. All of Holder's speech is noteworthy, but I want to highlight a couple of passages for special attention (emphasis added): I, like many in my generation, have been fortunate in my life and have had a great number of wonderful opportunities. Some may consider me to be a part of black history. But we do a great disservice to the concept of black history recognition if we fail to understand that any success that I have had, cannot be viewed in isolation. I stood, and stand, on the shoulders of many other black Americans. Admittedly, the identities of some of these people, through the passage of time, have become lost to us - the men, and women, who labored long in fields, who were later legally and systemically discriminated against, who were lynched by the hundreds in the century just past and those others who have been too long denied the fruits of our great American culture. The names of too many of these people, these heroes and heroines, are lost to us. Let's pause for a brief comment here. I agree that we must not forget the sad history of slavery and its abuses, and the subsequent sad history of discrimination. But must we constantly drum it up? Not just during Black History Month, either; we get this kind of talk year round. We shouldn't forget the Jewish Holocaust, or the Cambodian Holocaust, or the hundred of years of abuse the Irish took from the English, or any abuse of entire peoples. But for God's sake, do we hear Jews, Cambodians or Irish constantly whining about past abuses? Holder continued (emphasis added): But the names of others of these people should strike a resonant chord in the historical ear of all in our nation: Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Walter White, Langston Hughes, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Charles Drew, Paul Robeson, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Vivian Malone, Rosa Parks, Marion Anderson, Emmit Till. These are just some of the people who should be generally recognized and are just some of the people to whom all of us, black and white, owe such a debt of gratitude. It is on their broad shoulders that I stand as I hope that others will some day stand on my more narrow ones. That's good list of American heroes but uhm, would it have killed Eric Holder to include President Abraham Lincoln, or the white abolitionists of the early 1800's? Would it have been too much trouble to mention the thousands upon thousands of white kids in the 1960's who risked brutal attack and even death to march for civil rights? Couldn't Eric Holder have acknowledged the courageous work of white senators and white congressmen and white state legislators around the country who spoke up for civil rights, drafted anti-discrimination laws and passed them, at a time when doing so risked losing elections and even being targeted for violent attack? A mention of the whitefolks who helped the Underground Railroad bring thousands of slaves north to freedom would have been a nice touch. Holder omitted mention of another hero, white guy Salmon P. Chase, known as “the Attorney General of Fugitive Slaves” for defending runaway slaves. No, Holder didn't bother with any of those, although he is undoubtedly aware of all of them. An acknowledgement of those things and those people - those white people - would have diluted his race baiting message and his effort to keep many people believing that Governor George Wallace is still standing in front of the school entrance, arms crossed, vowing to keep out the niggras. What's truly said is that many people swallow that kind of stealth propaganda. A final note: Many of the people who read this post will be upset by my calling Barack Obama a "white man with black ancestry." But that is no less accurate than it is to call Vanessa Williams "black." It is more accurate than simply calling Obama "black." It would be just as accurate as calling him, by the way, a black man with white ancestry. And here's the irony: Liberals like Eric Holder, who demand a more honest dialog about race, get sweaty palms over things like that. The reason is simple: While it's easy to demand an honest, from-the-heart discussion about race, the protocols of the Liberals' own Stalinistic political correctness do not allow it. RELATED: Republicans have a better civil rights record than Democrats Eric Holder: the triumph of tokenism - Skeptical Brotha Black Democrats Vs. Black Republicans (In pictures and deeds) Obama Not Monkey Who Wrote Stimulus Congressional Black Caucus Assesses Its Role Under a Black President Why MLK was a Republican Republicans and Civil Rights The GOP Is the Party of Civil Rights - WSJ.com Washington Times - The 1964 Civil Rights Act The Politically Correct Monster (satire, video) CNB RSS Feed

Obama Not Monkey Who Wrote Stimulus

The race-baiting Left is wrongly accusing a cartoonist of racist intentions by claiming that his New York Post cartoon today portrays Barack Obama as a chimpanzee. (It doesn't.) They are wrong, as usual, seeing racism where none exists or was intended.

The cartoon, by Sean Delonas, shows two cops standing over a chimp that has been shot dead. One cop says to the other, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill" as smoke comes from his pistol.

Here's why the leftist indignation is all wrong: 

1. Barack Obama is not mentioned or alluded to in the cartoon; 
2. Barack Obama is not the author of the stimulus bill - Rep. David Obey (D-WI) is the main author. Obey is not African-American; 
3. The cartoon portrays a chimp shot dead by cops to tie into another news story today about a woman whose pet chimpanzee was taken down by police as it was trying to kill her.

I altered the Delonas cartoon (below) to make a point in his defense. 

Imagine, as I show in the altered version, that instead of "stimulus bill" it said "foie gras ordinance." Alderman Joe Moore, the author of Chicago's much-ridiculed and now-defunct anti-foie gras law, is a white man.

Would we assume, then, from my altered version that comparing Moore to a chimp is racist?

Of course not. Why, then, is Delonas' actual cartoon considered racist, when it alludes to white man David Obey, who is the main author of the Stimulus Bill? (Answer: Leftists are paranoid liars, always eager to slap the "racist" label on somebody simply for disagreeing with them.)

Whatever happened to the liberal mantra "Fear No Art?" A lot of liberals are soiling their pants today over a piece of art, a cartoon, that they insanely think portrays Barack Obama as an ape or monkey. I understand the sensitivity of some black people as pertains to the images of monkeys and apes, but to see racism in a depiction of a chimpanzee when none is implied or intended is just lunacy.

As the New York Times pointed out, "Indeed, it was Mr. Obey, the third-most-senior member of the House, who, in large measure, shaped the bill, in concert with other House Democratic leaders." So, if the cartoon compares anybody to the author of the stimulus bill, it's Obey or "House Democratic leaders" collectively, not Barack Obama.

That's not stopping the looney left from blowing this out of proportion. One example is this idiotic piece at the Huffington Post today: The drawing, from famed cartoonist Sean Delonas, seems rife with racial and political sensitivities. In it, two befuddled-looking police officers holding guns look over the dead and bleeding chimpanzee that attacked a woman in Stamford, Connecticut. (Source)

How is the cartoon "rife with racial...sensitivities?" (As for "political sensitivities," sure. But that's what a good political cartoon should strike at. It's the whole point.) As already pointed out, stimulus bill author David Obey is a white guy.

Only the ignorant would think the cartoon targets Obama, a white man with black ancestory. The cartoonist is clearly implying that the author of the stimulus bill is as smart as a chimp. There is no racist implications to be seen in the cartoon, unless your vision has been blurred by leftist paranoia and hypersensitivity. To accuse cartoonist Sean Delonas of being racist is itself racist based on a false assumption.

Also See: The Left's Shameful Slurring of Monkey Cartoonist

Pfleger Spanked by George the Lame

Not good enough, Cardinal George! Chicago's Cardinal George took a wimpy approach to Priest Michael Pfleger's racist outrage last Sunday. The Cardinal - once again - merely slapped the offensive priest's wrist. Cardinal George: "To avoid months of turmoil in the church, Fr. Pfleger has promised me that he will not enter into campaigning, will not publicly mention any candidate by name and will abide by the discipline common to all catholic priests." (Source: Sun-Times) Okay, but will Cardinal George extract a promise from Pfleger to never again call for a crowd to "snuff" a gun store owner? How many more outrages will the cardinal tolerate before he finally transfers Pfleger to a small island post in central Africa? Pfleger would probably be happier there, anyway, with fewer white devils around. Meanwhile, Cardinal George should look into acquiring a testicle. RELATED: Pfleger Gagged! Father Michael Pfleger and the Presidential Campaign - Catholic Online Rev. Michael Pfleger, the Latest of Barack Obama's Scary Friends ... Rev. Michael Pfleger and Rev. Jeremiah Wright Together Again The Campaign Spot on National Review Online

Obama's Spiritual Leader

For 20 years, Obama has listened to this man, taken his advice, sought out his guidance. Suddenly, Obama is all but disowning the man. Why? A coupla videos:

Obama No Miracle

Okay, can we just stop it already? Barack Obama did very well indeed in Iowa last night. Okay, whatever. Oh, by the way, isn't it amazing that all those racist white devils in the evil Midwest actually voted for Obama? I'm being sarcastic. I like Barack Obama. I disagree with 99% of his politics, but I'd love him as a neighbor or coworker. Oh, by the way, the fact that he's a white guy with a black father (oh, did I get that backward?) doesn't factor into anything. He's a person. We're all people. Sure, there are still racist assholes out there. But the listen to leaders of the Democrat Party, particularly those supporting Obama, it's some kind of holy miracle that he pulled it off. Sorry, folks. It's no miracle. It's 2008 and the worst of racism is far, far behind us. It keeps getting better. We've got a lot of work to do. But we're heading in the right direction, and that direction will take us to a place that Martin Luther King dreamed of. That most of us dream of. So the next time you hear somebody marvel that Obama - is he black enough? - pulled off something akin to parting the Red Sea, ask them what the hell they're talking about. If racism was half as bad as racial adversity pimps Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton want you to believe, Barack Obama would never have been elected to the Illinois State Senate, let alone to the U.S. Senate. For that matter, Jackson and Sharpton would have been shut down by now. Obama won in Iowa. Great. Now let's move on and leave race out of this, because it's far less an issue in reality than some politicos would have you think.

Racist Pig Mary Mitchell

Mary Mitchell thinks Chicago's new police superintendent, J.P. "Jody" Weis, wants to lynch her. Weis (pronounced "wees") is a honky, you see. A cracker. A Caucasian. And therefore, in the twisted mind of Mary Mitchell, an enemy, a racist, a bogey man.

She started her November 30 column with this: "I understand why Mayor Daley went outside of the Chicago Police Department to recruit a new police superintendent, especially since interim Police Supt. Dana Starks didn't want the job."

Okay, then, that should be the end of it. But Mitchell is lying. She really doesn't understand it. She is very unhappy with it, in fact. Why? Well, because FBI Agent Weis, soon to be Chicago's new top cop, is - hold on - white. That, in the paranoid world of Mitchell & Company, is just horrific.

Jody Weis is currently a special agent in charge of the FBI's Philadelphia office, a post he took last April. Weis worked in the areas of terrorism, white-collar crime, organized crime and violent crime. But Jody Weis is the wrong color, you see.

Who is Jody Weis? The FBI's web site sheds some light: Mr. Weis began his career in 1985 in the Houston Division of the FBI in the Corpus Christi Resident Agency where he was assigned to reactive crimes. He opted for a transfer to Houston, Texas, and was assigned terrorism, narcotics, and violent crime matters. Mr. Weis also served on the Houston SWAT team and as a Bomb Technician. Mr. Weis was promoted to the FBI's Bomb Data Center in November 1992 and was transferred to the Violent Crimes/Fugitive Unit in October 1994. In January 1996 Mr. Weis was selected for the Violent Crimes Squad in Phoenix, Arizona, where, during the course of his assignment at Phoenix, he also supervised Domestic Terrorism, International Terrorism, and Civil Rights squads. Mr. Weis was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office in June 2000 where he was responsible for the While Collar Crime, Organized Crime, Violent Crime, and Administrative Programs during his assignment in Illinois.

Does that sound like a guy who is not qualified?

I've had it up to here with Mary Mitchell, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and her whiny, woe-is-me victimology "writing." I know I'm not alone. I happen to be a Honky-American, just to let you know, but one of Black-American friends can't stand her either. He doesn't like the fact that Mitchell perpetuates the reliance on Big Government, the Plantation Mentality, and Disproportionate Fear.

Mitchell also wrote, "I'm also surprised that in this entire United States of America, there was not one qualified black police chief who would work for $185,000 annually. Yet Daley was so impressed by Weis, he agreed to pay him $300,000 a year."

Mitchell is either an ignorant fool or is deliberately distorting reality. Think about it, people. There must surely be a "qualified black police chief," as Mitchell whined, who would take Mayor Daley's offer for $185,000 a year. There are probably a number of them. There are probably some Hispanic, Asian and maybe an Eskimo who would be "qualified," too. And, hard as it is for some to accept, a few white dudes, too.

Where Mitchell misses the point, however, is that "qualified" is not always good enough. Plenty of people can be "qualified" to do a particular job. But just how many of those "qualified" people would also be exemplary? How many would excel? Not simply do a ho-hum, competent job of it, but really make a difference? Maybe a few. Perhaps Mayor Daley is wrong, but he thinks Weis is the best person for the job. Time will tell of course, but racists like Mitchell would rather assume that a black candidate would have been the better choice.

One must wonder if fellow racist William Beavers helped Mitchell write her column. She defended Beavers one day earlier, in her November 29 column. Earlier this week, Cook County Commissioner Beavers moaned that Cook County President Todd Strogers can't get his budget passed "because he's black." Sad, very sad, that such racism and paranoia persists in 2007, but there it is. (Sadder still, that Beavers was being cynical; he knows damned well that Stroger's problems with the commissioners is not racially based.)

Yesterday, Mitchell saw Klan members dancing around City Hall and Police headquarters. The Klan was all in her head of course, but Mitchell is good at transferring her paranoia to paper, and she sells a lot of Sun-Times copies to other, equally frightened people.

"I had hoped that Daley would have tapped a black candidate," wrote Mitchell, "because at least then people in these volatile communities, many of whom have good reason not to trust the police, might at least have been willing to give the new chief the benefit of the doubt." So there it is. Mitchell admits it. She would have preferred a candidate solely on the basis of his race. She stated it very clearly. She is a racist.

Racist Mary Mitchell wrapped up her racist column with this:

"Weis may be well-intended, and I wish him the best. But to too many, he will be just another law-and-order cop who doesn't have a clue about the circumstances that help turn neighborhoods into killing fields."

Is Mitchell against "law-and-order" police? Mitchell complains that Weis has no "clue about the circumstances" that make some neighborhoods dangerous, or "killing fields," as she overstates.

Well here's a news flash for racist Mitchell: Jody Weis is not being hired as a social worker. The cops are not social workes. They deal with the symptoms of the disease. They are not tasked to cure it.

But to say that Weil has no understanding about why some neighborhoods are "killing fields" is one hell of an assumption to make. But I'm sure Weis understands that a large part of the problem is out of wedlock black mothers having kids in their early teens. Weis is probably aware of the fact that too many black men take no responsibility for their own children. And Weis is probably aware that victimologists like racist Mary Mitchell continue to tell those irresponsible fathers, the drug users, the bad parents, the ne'er do wells, that it's not their fault, that the government owes them a living, that all white folk are evil. A black superintendent of police would not do a damn thing to change any of that, Mizz Mitchell.

So, yes, good luck to Mr. Weis. You'll be walking into a cauldron of racial prejudice.

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Westgard's Transparent and Pathetic Move

Local attorney and tragic hypocrite Thomas J. Westgard and I actually agreed on something, which scares the crap out of me. Yesterday, we both criticized Cook County Commissioner William "Big Nuts" Beavers for blaming racism on Cook County President Todd Stroger's inability to get his budget passed. Beavers said on Tuesday that Stroger is having political problems "because he's black."

Yesterday, Westgard wrote, "Beavers and Stroger must really be running out of political power, if they're reduced to such a transparent and pathetic move."

What a load of shit. No no, I agree with what Westgard wrote. But does Westgard really believe what he wrote? Westgard used exactly the same "transparent and pathetic move" himself, as the former campaign chair of the failed Ginderske 2007 aldermanic campaign. Ginderske lost to incumbent Moore in February, who went on to beat Don Gordon in the April run-off. That's when Westgard and others used their own Beavers-like race card.

While Ginderske was still in the race, Joe Moore's flunkies were telling voters - particularly black voters north of Howard Street - that progressive Democrat Jim Ginderske was a Republican who wanted to get rid of all the black people in Rogers Park. This was a complete lie. Westgard protested, of course. Meanwhile, Westgard told anybody who would listen that candidate Don Gordon was a Nazi and a racist.

After Ginderske lost, both he and Westgard jumped into bed with Moore and started telling voters - particularly black voters north of Howard Street - that the moderately liberal Don Gordon was a Republican who wanted to get rid of all the black people in Rogers Park. But it got even uglier.

Westgard repeatedly and viciously called Mr. Gordon a Nazi and a racist. Mr. Gordon is neither, and Westgard knew that. Westgard's ugly, intentional lies were hurtful. But that was his intention. Give Beavers some credit: Unlike Westgard, at least Beavers's lie was not a vicious personal attack intended to destroy an individual's reputation.

As another local blogger wrote at the time, we still await Mr. Westgard's apology. He should do so before hypocritically criticizing Beavers or anybody else for the same sins of which he is so publicly and unrepentantly guilty.

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