A Race To The Bottom

By Kleinheider Posted on May 14, 2008 at 6:17 am

The Pesky Fly chastises a political analyst for excusing a Memphis City Councilwoman’s threat of violence against a reporter:

Essentially Moore, an African American, is apologizing for Fullilove’s blackness and for blacks in general because when overly excited it would seem that even the best and brightest revert to the sputtering violent vernacular of the old neighborhood. At best he’s saying, “That’s just how those people communicate.”

My point is simply that if there are any holes to be dug Moore’s all-too-familiar apologia needs to be thrown into it and covered with six feet of clay. I could be wrong. It may not be offensive to blacks, but it sure as hell should be. Heck, it should be offensive to Fullilove who went on a one woman crusade against Craig Brewer’s film Hustle & Flow when it hit the big screen, calling it a “black exploitation type of film” and claiming it would solidify existing notions that Memphis is a “backwater town.”

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