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Barbara Boxer Gets Ripped For “Condescending Racial Remarks”
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This is just hilarious!
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) gets ripped by Harry Alford, the National Black Chamber of Commerce President & CEO, who slams her for being “condescending” and for “being racial” and “getting to a path that’s going to explode”.
If it weren’t for the Sotomayor hearings going on this week, I’d say that this is probably the most entertaining six minutes of any Senate panel all week long. In fact, even with the Sotomayor hearings, I’d say this is probably still the most entertaining.
UPDATE
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal picked up this story today and looked at it from an interesting perspective. His contention is that even though Boxer deserved what she got based on her condescending tone and her obvious race-influenced actions, Alford still is being somewhat hypocritical by getting all offended by Barbara’s spotlighting his race, when his organization–being the National Black Chamber of Commerce–itself relies upon that very spotlight for its existence!
Taranto writes:
We watched the video, and we can see Alford’s point. Boxer does come across as condescending, and, weirdly, she doesn’t even seem to understand why he would find it offensive for her to rebut his argument not on the merits but via a racially specific appeal to authority.
Yet Alford, by speaking on behalf the National Black Chamber of Commerce, is himself relying on just such a racially specific appeal to authority. We tend to agree with Alford and disagree with Boxer on the subject they were discussing, but the rule of etiquette he invoked–blacks may claim authority on account of their race, but whites may not seek to undermine that authority–put her at an unfair disadvantage, one that was particularly unwarranted given that the topic at hand had nothing to do with race.