McKinney’s Latest Congressional Accomplishment

Yes, just before Cynthia “Slugger” McKinney smacked that Capitol Hill police officer, she was busy at work penning a new resolution. Her latest House proposal, H.R. 4968, is one for the …. well, “records.” CNS News had an article about it last week, and yesterday Atlanta Journal Constitution opinion writer Richard Halicks gave us a little insight into this Resolution:

A few weeks before her contretemps with a Capitol Police officer, U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney filed her latest piece of legislation: House Resolution 4968, “The Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Release Act of 2006.”

The bill declares that “all government records related to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur should be preserved for historical and governmental purposes.” It directs that the records be placed in an extraordinary collection at the National Archives and Records Administration, and that copies of the files be housed at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Stone Mountain.

McKinney believes the government may know more than it’s saying about Shakur’s murder in 1996. And an aide to McKinney wrote by e-mail to the Journal-Constitution that “for young black men today, Tupac is at least as recognizable and more often quoted than Dr. [Martin Luther] King.”

And the lunacy goes on….

It is this contradictory figure who is celebrated at the Stone Mountain arts center on Cynthia McKinney Parkway. The center, which opened last summer, features a placid “Peace Garden” planted with tulips, pansies, lush grass and hardwoods; a seven-foot bronze statue of Shakur, with a ring in one ear and bling around his neck, presides over the pastoral scene.

“Tupac was much different than the rappers that are around now,” McKinney’s son, Coy, wrote a few years ago, in an essay posted on blackelectorate.com. “He had a conscience and was aware of the world that surrounded him. The anger and the language that he uses in his songs is how he tries to relate the feeling of growing up in the ghetto without a father; how it feels if the only way to make money is to sell drugs.”

Conspiracy theory

McKinney has said that her resolution is modeled on her previous proposal, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Records Act of 2005. Asked by the AJC whether the nation has the same compelling interest in Shakur as it has in King, Judge’s e-mail replied:

“In terms of public interest it is generational issue. For young black men today, Tupac is at least as recognizable and more often quoted than Dr. King, and he is a nationally known figure of stature for those young people, as King was in his day.

“Given the questions that surround the government interest and possible involvement in both their murders and their lives these cases both hold similar weight in assessing government response to social and cultural change in the whole society.”

McKinney believes “government surveillance teams” may have witnessed Shakur’s shooting and have failed to come forward.

In response to a call from the Journal-Constitution, McKinney spokesman Coz Carson e-mailed two files to the newspaper, including “HR 4968 Tupac Bill tpoints” and “HR 4968 Counter Negative Spin on Tupac Bill.” The former, in Q&A format, says:

Q. “Does Rep. McKinney think there was a government conspiracy to kill Tupac? Is this a good use of government resources?”

A. “If there was an illegal or improper surveillance of Tupac or other activity resulting in rivalries that led to his death, or simple obstruction of justice when government surveillance teams present at the scene of his death did not come forward to testify, this demands further investigation.”

Tupac is quoted more often than Martin Luther King, Jr.? I guess I could agree since MLK, Jr. never talked about “bitches” or “ho’s.” The idea that anyone in her camp would even equate the two in the same thought process is in and of itself absurd. Yeah, I see the resemblance… don’t you? Can’t you just see MLK standing here in place of “Biggie Smalls?”

So, if anybody wonders why she’s an embarassment to the State of Georgia, this should clear things up for ya. Maybe some of Tupac’s “Thug Life” rubbed off on her, thus prompting her scuffle at the Capitol. And oh, by the way; some of her constituents were interviewed today and asked if they will vote for her again in November. Overwhelmingly, about 90% said “yes,” and that her “apology” ~ahem~ after the Grand Jury was convened showed sufficient humility.

Yeah, right….

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