Mike Nichols points out a potential problem for Michael McGee Jr. and his band of supporters.
Nichols writes:
Ald. Michael McGee's federal case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert....
Clevert is an experienced judge who happens to be black.
McGee is, of course, innocent until proven guilty. But presuming there is a conviction and sentencing at some point (and that is almost always what happens when people are charged by federal prosecutors), Clevert's involvement is going to make allegations of racism a bit less plausible.
I don't think McGee and his supporters will have a problem dismissing Clevert as being part of a vast racist conspiracy designed to destroy the alderman.
It never seems to fail. When an African-American refuses to play the race card and participate in the racial victim game, that individual is deemed to be something other than black.
Some examples:
While campaigning for the U.S. Senate as a Republican, Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele was pelted with oreos.
Harry Belafonte called Secretary of State Colin Powell a "house slave" and President Bush his "white master."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board called U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "a black man who deserves an asterisk."
Condoleezza Rice has suffered similar indignities.
Read more here and here.
The strategy of branding some African-Americans as not really black is one that's been perfected.
I'm sure McGee's loyalists will use it to advance their charges that McGee is a victim of racism rather than the victimizer of his constituents and abuser of his authority as an alderman.
They won't let a little thing like Judge Clevert's skin color derail the use of their "concrete plantation" template.
No way.
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