Before I get to Howard Dean, I have to get this off my mind. I cringe every time I see and hear “African American.” There is no such nationality or race as “African American,” OK? If blacks don’t like the word “black” or whites feel funny saying it, pick a new word. I resent being referred to as “African American,” but if other folks want to be called that, there’s nothing I can do about it. Please, please, please stop using that term.
We are Americans. Most of us are descended from Africans, but we are not Africans. Most were born and raised right here in the good old USA. Do not assume that all blacks want to be called “African American.” Do not make me a lesser American by adding a reference to another continent, one I’ve never even been to, for crying out loud, to my nationality.
On to Howard Dean. A group of black Republicans is calling for his head after his remarks about black hotel staff a couple of weeks ago. Screaming Dean said, “You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here.”
Harty-har-har. Funny guy. I blogged about it, and the post was even mentioned on MSNBC. Anyway, so some black Republicans in Mississippi want Dean to resign as head of the DNC.
I disagree with them on this. I say let Dean stay. The more he puts his foot in his mouth, the more facts we conservatives have to support our opinion that Howard Dean is good for the Republican party. Howard Dean as chair of the DNC will provide me with all the fodder I need to blog about the bigoted tendencies of the Democratic party. Yes, Howard Dean as chair of the DNC spewing forth racially insensitive remarks will illuminate just how patronizingly ineffectual liberals are.
I hope Howard Dean reigns over the inept, two-elections-in-a-row-losing “party of the people” for years to come.
Myopic Zeal has more on Dean’s foot-in-mouth disease.
Update (3/3): About the Democrats and their election-losing proclivities, do you realize they’ve lost five of the last seven elections? Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush.
