This may come across as a tad harsh, and I apologize in advance if I offend, but I just can't seem to let go of this one...

Cynthia McKinney has (sort of) apologized--and, in a characteristically provocative and unconventional move that has chagrinned her congressional colleagues of all ethnic and political stripes, she has engaged a bodyguard, who promptly intervened today in a decidedly inappropriate fashion when a Cox reporter tried to interview the distinguished Ms. Thang (R-Ga).

"I put yo' ass in jail!" said McKinney's personal security consultant, while claiming to be a "police officer." The incident was captured on video here.

I realize that I have given this matter a bit more attention that it probably deserves, but among my most petted peeves is the propensity of some people not only to scream racism whenever they're called to account for their own, manifestly bad behavior, but to openly encourage others to do the same.

The irony here is that, as the C-Mac/Cop-Slap saga continues to unfold, her position becomes blacker and blacker and wronger and wronger, as she edges closer and closer to that rarest of social transgressors: the African-American racist.

It has been said that such a thing cannot exist, that black people, by definition, cannot be racist. This theory typically specifies that only white or Korean or Latino or Jewish people can be racist. It's on account of slavery, you see, which, historically speaking, always trumps famines, invasions, occupations, pogroms, etc. (And don't you dare say nothin' 'bout no Black folk in Africa back in the day, selling off they own people into the slave trade. Dat'd be racis'.)

Unbridled inanity? I think so. But to openly and honestly argue this point is to don the garb of the villain--especially if you're a straight white male (we're responsible for everything from slavery to tooth decay), but the world's most celebrated black activist/comedian with a couple of PhDs: Bill Cosby.

So, call me a racist, but I jus' gotsta say dat, on accounta dis C-Mac thang, I sho'ly does gots my shadenfizzle on, and I wants to thank the sistah fo' givin' me the opportunity to speak mah mind. Y' feel me?

And now...On to the Grand Jury!