Pot Plays Race Card On Non-Black Kettle

Cynthia "Rock 'em Sock 'em" McKinney doesn't know how to leave well enough alone.  For reasons I can't fathom, she escaped her alleged assault on a Capitol cop without being taken into custody and thus far, she has avoided indictment, despite what sounds like a pretty strong case and an unsympathetic, only forcibly apologetic suspect.

Still, her Rainbow-PUSH backers are seeing fit to carp about Patrick Kennedy's special treatment following his early morning accident, in order to bemoan the fact that McKinney's not being similarly let off the hook.

I know, right?  I mean... he's not even black!  The ongoing possibility of prosecuting McKinney for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer is now quite clearly the product of a racial double standard.

Rainbow-PUSH Southern Director Joe Beasley is close to McKinney. He told 11Alive, "What we're very concerned about is a contradiction."

Beasley said he admires Patrick Kennedy. But he said Capitol Police appear to have responded in one way to Kennedy's accident; and in a different way when McKinney first walked past a security checkpoint on March 29 -- an incident in which the police charge McKinney struck an officer who challenged her.
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"Cynthia McKinney is a Congressperson, too," said Beasley. "Let's protect all of them. That's what we think -- one standard. If they could do that courtesy to Kennedy, certainly, they could look again at what's going on with Cynthia."

Sorry, I'm confused.  Is the argument that the "courtesy" extended to Kennedy (for which the watch commander in question has since been reassigned) was proper and Cindy simply wants the special above-the-law treatment she feels she's therefore also due?  Well, I guess we know from her chronic failure to wear her ID badge that she feels a certain superiority to rules and procedure.  But McKinney's treatment up to this point seems darn near the very definition of "special" and it seems to me that the best thing for her supporters to do would be to keep quiet.

On September 12, Gary Condit had the good sense not to jump in front of a microphone and yell, "Hey, how come no one's paying attention to me anymore?"

In fairness, McKinney's office itself has kept uncharacteristically mum in this last round.  For her sake, hopefully that strategy will hold.  While Kennedy's treatment was in truth probably "even more special" than McKinney's, complaining that one's special treatment was not quite as special as someone else's (and intimating the increasingly tired race-based explanation for the differential) seems like a losing argument.

Arguing that Kennedy received extra special treatment because he's a Kennedy, on the other hand?  There, you might have something.