{"id":93,"date":"2006-11-20T06:44:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T12:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/20\/stewart\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:53:46","slug":"stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"The Minneapolis School Board and the Moral Gelding"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back, Minneapolitans elected racist dolt Chris Stewart to their School Board. The Strib, expending a new-found effort to report some of the the inconvenient facts about liberal politicians, notes that Stewart ran a blog that trafficked in racist japes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are people more qualified than I to excoriate this dolt. But I thought these two bits from the Strib story were interesting.<\/p>\n

At one point, Stewart notes:<\/p>\n

Stewart said he deeply regretted being at the center of a racial controversy, but he challenged his critics to look honestly at race relations in Minneapolis, using Keith Ellison as an example. Ellison, a black and a Muslim, was elected Nov. 7 to Congress from the Fifth District.<\/p>\n

“Keith Ellison did everything we were told to do as kids,” Stewart said. “He got an advanced education, he got married, he had kids. Yet he’s reduced to his color and his religion.<\/p>\n

“I see it as naked racism.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ellison was “reduced to his color and his religion” – and sent to Washington, to boot.<\/p>\n

But let’s leave out that whole “he’s a member of Congress, now”, bit. Who “reduced” him to his color? And how? (Oh, the City Pages reduced the race to a matter of color, all right – count the number of times “white” turns up in this bit about the Apostate Heritic<\/strike> Ventura<\/strike> Independence Vote Suck<\/strike> Party)<\/p>\n

Anyone?<\/p>\n

The Strib noted elsewhere in the story – with no apparent irony intended – that Stewart also said:<\/p>\n

The postings include… references to the “gelded quality” of black executives who speak precise white English.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Consorting with terror supporters is apparently less a problem to this hamster than speaking English.<\/p>\n

Finally, this moral gelding<\/strike> moron whines:<\/p>\n

“If you’ve written stuff and other people have written with you, does that discount you from political service?” Stewart said. “If the stuff is potent, does that discount you from participating in democracy?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course not. But if your “potent” “stuff” is grossly offensive, it might make people think you can’t be trusted with elective office.<\/p>\n

I suppose that pointing that out makes me a “racist”, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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