[/caption]There is an old adage that you do not speak ill of the dead, but you don’t white wash (pun intended) said dead mistakes either, especially if they were egregious.
Case in point, I heard excerpts of President Clinton’s speech about the late Senator Byrd during the funeral. Mainly of Clinton’s “white washing” of Byrd’s role in the Klu Klux Klan, and his infamous fourteen-hour filibuster speech undertaken to prevent blacks from enjoying the right to vote.
President Clinton’s excuse for Senator Byrd’s joining of the Klan was the fact that he was only trying to get elected. It would have been better if President Clinton had spoken about Senator Byrd in generalities.
During the latter Bush presidency, Vice President Cheney allegedly ate at a restaurant that had a painting of a Confederate flag - some Democrats went ape, implying that Cheney did so cavalierly to slight African Americans.
Over a year or so ago, I coined the phrase “Hypocrats” to describe how some Democrats get away with saying and engaging in actions, which, if it were Republicans who had said or engaged in similar actions, would have invoked the clarion calls by these same Democrats to Crucify the Republicans – ergo, Hypocrats.
What Clinton - and even President Obama - did was an act of down playing Byrd’s past. But it was not only confined to that somber occasion, but it is a microcosm of what is wrong with some Democrats.
When white police officers wrongly shoot a minority, we see our so-called intrepid Civil Rights leaders pulling up with their gasoline trucks, and in most cases pouring the petrol on the situation. But if a minority shoots a police officer, it doesn’t move these Civil Rights leaders to reach out to the officer’s wife or immediate family.
Even if the slain police officer’s family refused the olive branch, at least these leaders tried, and the public at large can say "There is a leader who is trying to bridge the racial chasm."
Instead, they rationalize and make excuses, and deem some wrongs innocuous according to who commit them.
No matter who engages in bad behavior, we must be even keel in our objective critique; do not look at one’s skin or political affiliation before bad behavior is defined, making it relative depending on hue and other subjective biased criteria.
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