I have to laugh at the conduct of Debbie Wasserman Schultz in response to Alan West's e-mail confronting her for what she has been saying. Debbie, the Chair of the Democrat National Committee, is now supposedly a poor downtrodden victim. Oh, how sad it is. Debbie cannot respond to West's e-mail by herself. How could she? She has nothing to say. No, after she singles out West for attack as the only African American Republican from Florida and she gets called for her racism, Debbie runs to hide behind others. Indeed, she has called out the entire professional victims' corps of the Democrats. The professional victims' corps says nothing about Shultz' racism. No, supposedly Debbie is now the victim due to West's "mistreatment" of women and his anti-semitism. What utter nonsense!
Let's just look at the facts. Wasserman Shultz has over the last year repeatedly attacked West. Is it coincidence that her attacks on Florida Republicans all seem to center on West who is the only black in the Florida GOP delegation? Was that the case during last fall's campaign when she called him crazy? What was the reason for all those attacks since then that she has leveled at West? Or is the actual explanation racism on the part of Schultz.
Wasserman Shultz can try to hide behind the professional victims' corps all she wants. It does not change the facts. West basically told her to shut up; the surprise is that it took him so long to do that, not what he said.
No one in America should be functioning on the basis of racism. We have all struggled for too long to get past that. It may be time for president Obama to suggest that the DNC get a new chairperson.
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