From USA Today:
'In an interview published Tuesday in The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, [Virginia state legislator Frank D.] Hargrove said slavery ended nearly 140 years ago with the Civil War and added that "our black citizens should get over it."
The newspaper also quoted him as saying, "are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"'
As punishment for his anti-Semitic ignorance (not to mention his racism), perhaps Hargrove should be made to visit an exhibition of Fernando Botero's recent paintings of the victims of torture in Abu Ghraib. Those paintings comment upon the obscenity of the 'war on terror.' But, iconographically, they may also link Abu Ghraib to the punishments endured both by American slaves and by Jesus in the Passion narratives.
2 comments:
Nice post JT
That this moron is dumb enough to say these things publically makes me wonder how many of our elected representatives think them but are calculating enough not to say them. These are the guys who make public policy.
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