APOLOGIZE, PLEASE….OK, count me in as a Democrat who thinks Corrine Brown was out of line yesterday:
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown verbally attacked a top Bush administration official during a briefing on the Haiti crisis Wednesday, calling the President’s policy on the beleaguered nation “racist” and his representatives “a bunch of white men.”
Her outburst was directed at Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. Noriega, a Mexican-American, is the State Department’s top official for Latin America.
….Noriega later told Brown: “As a Mexican-American, I deeply resent being called a racist and branded a white man,” according to three participants.
Brown then told him “you all look alike to me,” the participants said.
Calling our policy racist is OK ? it’s not my style, but it’s within the bounds of common polemical language ? but the rest isn’t. It’s offensive, and it’s still offensive regardless of whether Brown is black, white, or Martian. She needs to apologize, and she needs to mean it.
