Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Prejudice comes in many flavors

A comment was made yesterday by our great Vice-President and I just want to put it in a different context for a minute. Let’s say he said this instead “We have Cheney’s on both sides of the family and we’re not even Hispanic.” What would the reaction have been? Or if he had said “We have Cheney’s on both sides of the family and we’re not even Black.” Oh my! Would that have been a disaster! So why is it okay for him to say “We have Cheney’s on both sides of the family and we don’t even live in West Virginia”? Where are the big groups that should be poised and ready to go after him? To me prejudice is prejudice. Does it matter who it is against? This comment was so inflammatory and ridiculous that had it been made about anyone else there would be a huge uproar over it. Yes, I live in West Virginia and I took more offense than anyone who lives elsewhere would but why is that? When we hear of people being judged unfairly or put into a stereotype like this it shouldn’t matter where or who it is, it should offend us all as a nation. If he is making comments like this about us in public what kind of things is he saying about you behind closed doors? I am appalled that he would make such a comment but I am even more appalled that there is not more outrage from the general public.


2 comments:

  1. Wow! I missed him saying this, but yes it was out of line. Unfortunately, that whole administration has an unfortunate case of verbal diarrhea.

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  2. I hadn't heard about this either, but it is depressing that this representative of our entire country would single any one group out for ridicule.

    But then, even their last few remaining supporters/defenders likely wouldn't be all that surprised by this.

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