Keep The Dream Alive

3:37 am, 1/18/06

Keep The Dream Alive
Hillary Clinton in Harlem for Martin Luther King Day:

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

Actually, uh, their legislation and arguments are all over the news. The problem is that they get voted down, primarily because they're bad ideas and a lot of the people who typically such support bad ideas lost their jobs in the election. Rants From a Dorm Room:

Abbwuh? A plantation? Oh, I get it. The Republicans are like the rich, white plantation owners and the Democrats are like the lowly black slaves who are ripped from their families, stuffed onto ships, forced into hard labor for no pay, and beaten on regular basis. See black people? Hillary's on your side? She's a slave too!...I hope I don't have to spell out how absurd it is for a white chick from Alabama to stroll into a a Harlem church and essentially say, "Yeah guys! The Republicans are treating us all like SLAVE MASTERS. Vote 'fer me!"

Well yeah, I mean, it sounds stupid if you just come right out and say what she really meant like that. (Though I'm not sure where Alabama came from, she was born a Chicago Democrat, which explains so much.)

Meanwhile, America's Mayor, Ray "the CIA is going to kill me" Nagin, has run out of medication again:

"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.

"Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."

"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans _ the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," the mayor said. "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."

Nagin described an imaginary conversation with King, the late civil rights leader.

"I said, 'What is it going to take for us to move on and live your dream and make it a reality?' He said, 'I don't think that we need to pay attention any more as much about other folks and racists on the other side.' He said, 'The thing we need to focus on as a community - black folks I'm talking about - is ourselves.'"

Nagin said he also asked: "Why is black-on-black crime such an issue? Why do our young men hate each other so much that they look their brother in the face and they will take a gun and kill him in cold blood?"

The reply, Nagin said, was: "We as a people need to fix ourselves first."

Nagin also said King would have been dismayed with black leaders who are "most of the time tearing each other down publicly for the delight of many."

A day earlier, gunfire erupted at a parade to commemorate King's birthday. Three people were wounded in the daylight shooting amid a throng of mostly black spectators, but police said there were no immediate suspects or witnesses.

Yeah, that's pretty much how New Orleans was before the hurricane, too, so I guess we're getting back to normal, but back to the crazy talk: Uh, did Nagin say he's having fantasy chats with Martin Luther King Jr. and that God is punishing black people for gang violence?

Oh, since Howard Dean, the elections are just going to get better and better from here on out.

By better, I mean in the sense of their comedic value.