Not Your Sweetie

_'Message to America from the Racist Republican Regime: Happy Martin Luther 'Coon' Day'

"As we approach Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Republicans will talk like they have supported
King's vision of a colorblind society and African-American rights all along, when their records
and actions speak otherwise. That's just more of the Republican con job. Republican racism
goes much deeper than Sen. Lott. There's Sen. Jefferson Sessions of Alabama, who once
called a black assistant U.S. attorney 'boy' and a white civil rights attorney a 'disgrace to his
race.' There's Sen. George Allen of Virginia, who displays a Confederate flag in his living room.
There's Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who was a member of the all-white Belle Meade
Country Club in Nashville, Tenn., before running for the Senate in 1994. There's Rep. Cass
Ballenger of North Carolina who recently told a newspaper reporter he had 'segregationist'
feelings and called former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, an African-American Democrat from
Georgia, a 'bitch.'" The list goes on and on, writes Jackson Thoreau.