Rep. Keith Ellison’s Historic Testimony during House Hearings
Rep. Keith Ellison’s Historic Testimony during House Hearings
Just as our children today read in their history books about the internment of Japanese-Americans and about the McCarthy Hearings, a time will come (not too far in the future hopefully) when our children’s children will read about how there was a generation of Americans who stood by idly as an elected member of public office–a United States congressman no less–held anti-Muslim hearings.
That future generation will marvel at our complacency. But, we will not just be accused of apathy, but of wholesale bigotry. And many of us will be disgraced and shamed–just like those police officers captured in 1960′s footage hosing down black Americans will forever live in infamy for what they did. Mostly those who will be remembered will be the villains–Peter King, Glenn Beck, maybe Barack Obama (the president who did nothing to stop it–the guy who made it seem like it’s a smear to be called a Muslim)…
But there will be one good guy we’ll read about, and one testimony that we’ll remember. It will be one of those defining moments in history. His testimony is hardly eloquent…but Ellison has captured the moment beautifully. He has shed a tear for us all, for America’s lost soul. Here it is:

[QUOTE]we will not just be accused of apathy, but of wholesale bigotry. And many of us will be disgraced and shamed–just like those police officers captured in 1960′s footage hosing down black Americans will forever live in infamy for what they did.” [/QUOTE]
What a disgusting display of “victimhood”. As well as an offensive comparison.
How dare you compare concerned people SPEAKING about REAL radicals and terrorists..to..those DESPICABLE COPS who actually ABUSED and HARMED countless INNOCENT black people (REAL victims)!
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING would be rolling-over-in-his-grave right now at this perversion of “civil rights”!
He KNEW all too well what it was like to be a REAL VICTIM of bigotry.
A WONDERFUL MAN who spent his life, and lost his life, fighting for EQUALITY, FAIRNESS and RESPECT… NOT for prima donna status, EXCEPTIONS and EXEMPTIONS.
11 March 2011 at 11:40 am