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January 17, 2006
Dear Senator Clinton,
How is the US House of Representatives like a plantation Senator Clinton? Your apples and oranges comparison shows a total disrespect for the African Americans who do know what it is to be a slave. Maybe you feel your voice wasn't heard, but did you face brutal beatings for your disent? Did you spend hard summers forced to work with inadequate protection from the heat and sun, poor nutrition, rags for clothing? Did you face winters without heat, did you walk through snow in barefeet? Were you taken from your homeland, transported in unhuman conditions thousands of miles away to a strange land where you couldn't understand the language and treated as an animal? Was your family ripped apart? Your children taken from your arms, sold to others who would treat them as cruely? Were you raped by your Masters? Were you unjustly convicted by lynch mobs of heinous crimes based solely on the color of your skin? Were you condescended on by a "Christian" church through the taking of a vote to determine whether you had a soul and could go to heaven? This list could go on and on.
What do you offer in comparison? An annual income of $157,000 (as of 2004), health benefits, life insurance, retirement plan. You've had a comfortable life, yet you claim to be on par with children of slaves. Your education cannot compare with what they've learned about the depths of human indecency.
*** My Recommendations:
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (note: my recommendation is for the dvd edition, I have not read the book.)
Contempt of Court
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Posted by Anna at January 17, 2006 12:43 PM
Comments
Hyperbole in modern America (not just politics) is really getting out of hand. Outlandish comparisons only make reasonable people roll their eyes now.
Posted by: Joel at January 18, 2006 11:29 AM
I'm surprised the black leaders applaude and defend her comparison. They of all people should be able to differentiate between slavery and a bunch of spoiled, rich politicians. What's next? comparing poor service in a restaurant to Auschwitz?
Posted by: Anna at January 18, 2006 12:20 PM