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Free Liberal: Coordinating towards higher values

Free Liberal

Coordinating towards higher values

Stupid Dirty "White" Girl

Richard Riordan, former Mayor of Los Angeles and current California Secretary of Education, told a 6 year old girl that her name, Isis, meant "stupid dirty girl."

In response, Mervyn Dymally, a California state assemblyman organized a protest against Riordan, but cancelled it when learning the girl was white, not black as he had previously assumed.

The Associated Press quoted from Dymally's statement which said, "Race is not a factor in this issue... It is time for us to move on."

Apparently, it only matters if you say a trashy thing to someone of the opposite race. I disagree. This behavior is indefensible regardless of the color of skin of the person it was directed at. It should draw the same response, regardless if the girl was black or white.

Assemblyman Dymally was worried about racism. There is plenty of racism to be concerned about. But, he and others who speak out against racism should be aware of the hypocrisy, inconsistency, and injustice of believing that denigration only occurs when a white person speaks ill to a black person.

We should be equal under the law. But that requires that we be equally outraged, regardless of skin color.

-- Kevin D. Rollins



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