Another Republican racist can’t keep mouth shut
Friday, April 11th, 2003This time it’s Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyoming, who managed to suggest, on the floor of the House of Representatives, that all blacks use drugs. Then Republicans managed on a largely party-line vote to stand behind her on a vote about whether to strike her racist comment for the record.
Cubin apologized in the traditional, insincere manner of racists who got caught: she is sorry “if” she offended the “sensitivities” of her listeners.
Those who were paying attention in December, just four short months ago, will recall that after Trent Lott made racist remarks, the Republicans fell all over themselves to say that Republicans were not racists. I’ve tried in vain to find any news reports of Trent Lott commenting on the Cubin fiasco, but found only a great and eloquent silence.
