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Riordan didn’t say just any old, “something wrong,” Jack. It was a something that in one context delivers more hurt than in another. Do you really think the average Black girl in Isis’ place would have felt about the same about Riordan’s comments? I think not. And if you can’t figure out why that would be, there’s no hope for you. Newsflash JT: context matters.

I know your head doesn’t hurt as much when you put EVERYTHING in terms of black and white, but imho life is mostly about degrees and shades of gray. This just in: context matters.

Merv thought the comment was said in one context, one which he’s particularly sensitive to. He responded AS IF IT WERE in that context, so when he realized he was wrong about the context (surely, hopefully, embarrassed to no end), he withdrew his objection as it didn’t have the implications he thought it did.

You do have an interesting definition of racist, tho. You seem to be implying that the mere “ability” to SEE racial differences (and societal treatment of each?) makes one a racist (as in there’s no such thing as “race” anyway, so if someone claims to see one, then that person is a bloody “racist”), and/or perhaps it’s defending a “race” (if they exist) against (apparent) bigotry that makes one a racist. I’m not sure which. I’ll have to think about that (hard) before I can respond to that bit.

If you think it’s worse to say something stupid to a little black girl than a little white girl you’re part of the problem not part of the solution.The girls race only matters to racebaiters and as soon as the bigot Mervyn found out she wasn’t black then he decided he didn’t care who said what to her. It’s ignorant bigots like Mervyn and fools who defend them that do more harm to the people they lie about trying to help than anyone else ever could by trivializing racism. What Mervyn looks like or what political party he belongs to or whether he favors one group or the other or likes ckicken or steak doesn’t matter, he’s just a dumbass racist and if he were a different color he’d just be doing the same stupid things only to different people.

The story of California Education Secretary Richard Riordan pretty much evaporated after it turned out that the poor little black girl he insulted was actually white. (Actually, I thought I posted on this. Didn’t I? A reader sent me a…

If you mean to say calling ANY little child, “stupid, dirty girl” (going by Michelle’s initial post here) is no “crime” (and, no, kids, I don’t mean that in it’s literal sense. oi.), then you strike me as the type of person who’d never in a zillion years understand why (say) police racial profiling just ain’t cool.

Just curious, do you have a mental “profile” of what Mervyn D looks like? What if Michelle had forgotten to mention which political party Merv belonged to. Would you have added Democrat to that profile? or Republican?

Would you have reacted with the same pique if he was one or the other?

Don’t kid yourself, Jack-o, the WHO matters as much as the WHAT.

I don’t know the guy, but this is probably what was in the guys mind when he went for the joke, just a funny exchange like we have all had with children. But, as sometimes happens when going for a joke off the cuff, something un-funny comes out.

But the sound bite dogs are always there to use the moment to get a little free press. They wait and they watch and when someone makes a comment they can possible use, they attack. Just like the people jumping on Lindsay Lohan because she called something “retarded”. She is a teen age girl that dropped a common teen phrase. These people knew that, it was just their excuse to get their group a little coverage.

I do not see why anyone should get sued or lose their job. Christ, do we really want to be in a place where no matter how much we achieved over a lifetime of work, one single comment should be worthy of destroying a career? What happened to the punishment fitting the crime?

Great Story. Richard Riordan is visiting a school. A girl tells him her name is "Isis" and that it means Goddess. He tells her "No, it means stupid, dirty girl’. This caused the NAACP to get involved. Please note: Isis is a white girl

Lookit, I was just being snarky-funny (I said, “sterotypical” profile, mr. namecaller. do any of you guys have a frickin sense of humour? sheesh.). If anything, I was supposing that Dymally could be a DOUBLE-profiler in this case. Get it? Relax, awready. Don’t bang your keyboard so hard.

Memer, any chance you see yourself as an inconsistent idiot embracing political stereotypes in one breath and denouncing “racial profiling” in another? I thought not. You’re too stupid.
Also, birdbrain, Riordan was referring to the kid’s name not the kid as a person. Any idiot reading or viewing the video could grasp that distinction.

Super rich white guy with power telling a little child (Black or otherwise) that she’s a stupid, dirty girl? Hmm. Sure fits a stereotypical Republican profile if I ever saw one.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dymally10jul10,1,1306184.story

” SACRAMENTO — Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally said Friday that he was suspending a top aide over a canceled news conference that had been called to criticize state education secretary and former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan for a comment made last week to a 6-year-old girl. The Compton Democrat abruptly called off the conference Thursday, the day it was supposed to take place. Dymally said his staff director, Warren Quann, had scheduled the event without his permission and would be suspended for the rest of July….”

Meanwhile the NAACP bureaucracy has intertia enough to remember Riordan is nevertheless still a Republican.

Hey, memer, Dymally saw an opportunity; “crime” is a ridiculous description. Riordan’s comments broke no law. And Dymally certainly used “racial profiling” in cancelling his indignation.