Cynthia For Congress

The American Institute has posted an article in which one Mr. Joseph Knippenberg hates on McKinney. We are not surprised by this at all. After all given the history of certain Jewish organizations backing certain types of black people we are not surprised that a "'berg" would have issues with a black person (a woman at that) who does not, in his words, "keep her head down". But lets let Knippenberg speak for himself:

We seized our first opportunity in 2002, when Denise Majette, with the assistance of many “malicious” crossover voters like me, unseated McKinney in the Democratic primary. But Majette, a conventionally liberal African-American Democrat, abandoned what could have been a safe seat to make a quixotic run for the Senate seat now held by Republican Johnny Isakson, paving the way for McKinney’s return.

ahh, Knippenberg likes "conventional" Negroes who are bought by Jewish organizations like AIPAC. But let's continue:

Of course, in a low-turnout run-off, anything can happen. McKinney’s organization, cultivated over twelve years, ought to stand her in good stead. She ought to be able to get her loyalists to the polls. But, not surprisingly, money has been flowing into Johnson’s campaign coffers. And while McKinney has gotten some high-profile endorsements, so has Johnson...Johnson, a mild-mannered and plodding campaigner whose voting record on matters that actually come before Congress would likely not be very different from McKinney’s (save perhaps in one respect, noted below), responded in the debate by calling attention to the out-of-state money she has attracted. If, as she implied, politicians do the bidding of their donors, whose interests will McKinney be serving? I wish that Johnson had gone for the jugular here. He could have noted, as did Daniel Pipes during the 2004 election campaign, that a substantial portion of McKinney’s reportable individual contributions during this election cycle came from Arab- and Muslim-Americans, most of whom were out-of-state. Why, he might have asked, are they so interested in supporting McKinney?

Ahh thw money question. I'm glad they brought that up. In April of 2004 I posted about Majette's economic and political support with a quote from the Atlanta Jewish Times:


Knowledgeable sources confirm that some Jewish supporters have already called Majette’s 4th District congressional office in Decatur demanding their money back.

Answering their concern, Majette told The Jewish Times, “It was not my intention to deceive anyone. I have honored my commitments. I have addressed Jewish concerns.

“Those who supported me will continue to have a voice in the Senate,” she continued. “I hope they will give me the opportunity to serve [there].”



Lest that not be enough of a smoking gun, lets look at my February 2004 post on the subject where the SF times is heavily quoted:

It's worth taking a look at the Web site of the U.S. Federal Election Commission. Look for contributors to Artur Davis, a Black lawyer who won the Democratic primaries in the 7th Congressional District in Alabama …. Davis beat his rival, the 60-year-old, five-term Earl Hilliard, who is also Black, by a 56-44 percent vote. Here are some of the names from the first pages of the list of his contributors: there were 10 Cohens from New York and New Jersey, but before one gets to the Cohens, there were Abrams, Ackerman, Adler, Amir, Asher, Baruch, Basok, Berger, Berman, Bergman, Bernstein and Blumenthal. All from the East Coast, Chicago and Los Angeles. It's highly unlikely any of them have ever visited Alabama, let alone the 7th Congressional District. (Now recall what happened when Savage named names like that.)


What do the Adlers and Bergmans have to do with an unknown lawyer running for a Congressional seat from Alabama. Why should Jews from all over the United States send hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign coffers, which reached $781,000 - compared to the $85,000 he had in his coffers the last time he ran, and lost? The answer can be found in the AIPAC index of pro-Israel congressmen. Hilliard, who once visited Libya, is paying (with) his Congressional seat for a number of votes the Jewish lobbyists didn't like.

Say what? I see. Mr. Knippenberg, is Ok with "conventional", "Keep your head down" negroes so long as they accept Jewish money and support pro-Israeli positions. No wonder Mr. Knippenberg is so mad at Cynthia.

My position on voting has been pretty clear on this blog. I don't vote because I am unwilling to lend any credence to half assers or lesser of two,three or four evils. I have stated that in the event that a candidate for office existed that represents most of if not all my positions then I would in fact register and vote. Given that I cannot vote in Georgia I have done the next best thing and donated to Cynthia McKinney's campaign. I encourage all persons who read and agree with the general tenets of this blog to put their money where their mouths and minds are. It is clear that large non-black and non-black interest groups are pouring money into "kneegrow" hands and the DLC and assorted "democratic" machines are doing their best to torpedo McKinney just as they are trying to roadblock Kwesi Mfume. I have stated in my introduction of the Olatunji Foundation, that it is simply not enough for us to talk we simply cannot expect for our leadership, or representatives in the field of ideas to fill those positions without the economic support of those that claim them. I've done my part so Do yours

[edit 8-6-2006]Correction and additional commentary here[/edit]

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