It’s dangerous for our children
On April 2nd, Representative Monique Davis of the Illinois Legislature, during a session, condemned Jewish activist Rob Sherman for “destroying what this state was built upon”, shouted in open session, told him to “Get out of that seat, you have no right to be there!”, and commented, “What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous.”
Oh, wait. Did I say Jewish? I meant Atheist. Brad Sherman is atheist, an activist, and an American.
If Sherman had been Jewish, the airwaves would not have stopped shrieking the story for the last six days. Monique Davis, a black, female legislator, went all 1841-Mississippi on Sherman’s ass, and there was barely a murmur in the media.
Some of you who get your news entirely online will contend “Oh, everyone covered that, Josh!” What I want the rest of you to do is, if this is the first, or the first detailed, report you have encountered of what happened, to post, “I didn’t know about that.” You with me? The usual suspects can go ahead and tell me I’m making a mountain out of a molehill, and I’m just asking the rest of you to be honest about this. Did this get the coverage it would have if, for instance, an Atheist legislator (Ha! Must be a fucking incredible duck hunter!) had told a 71-year-old black woman that she had no business in a legislative session?
(You can see it buried deeply in the Chicago Tribune. I know the Web has a way of flattening sites, but just note what column it appeared under, when, and where.)
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April 8th, 2008 at 20h57
I didn’t know about that.
Wow.
April 8th, 2008 at 22h46
I didn’t know that. Wish it were not the case.
April 9th, 2008 at 07h25
I didn’t know about that. It’s a shame, to say the least.
April 9th, 2008 at 07h41
I didn’t know about it. Hadn’t heard a peep, and I spend a LOT of time on sites that normally eat this sort of thing up.
I’m going to go ahead and chock this up to America’s love of sassy old black women. I’m sure that Tyler Perry is already optioning the rights to make a movie out of it.
April 9th, 2008 at 09h18
I did not know about it either, and I get a fair amount of my news from online sources.
May 8th, 2008 at 22h33
I did not know that, and I happen to get most of my (limited) news from the net. Josh, I think we all just expect a little too much when it comes to equal rights and government. I mean, that couldn’t really mean equal for everybody, right?
May 13th, 2008 at 06h09
I din’t hear about this either, but I tend to stay away from the evening news.
May 13th, 2008 at 06h09
I also can’t type straight before noon. :-\
April 22nd, 2009 at 09h42
I did not hear that, but it does not surprise me. I read somewhere that atheists are THE most despised group in the US, and if that doesn’t make you question the purity of heart of the faithful, I don’t know what will. I am from Canada, which is (thankfully) much more moderate.