Paranoia, bigotry go together

[madmusic]

MICHAEL PAUL WILLIAMS
TIMES-DISPATCH COLUMNIST

Dec 25, 2006

Bigotry is nothing new in Virginia politics. But it seems to be experiencing a resurgence at an odd time in our state's history.

Virginia is increasingly di verse, its political hue changing from red to purple. But while one segment of our population embraces change and inclusion, another clings to fear, intolerance and exclusion.

Last week, Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-5th, cast his lot with the latter group.

In a letter to constituents, he stoked anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment at the expense of Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a native-born American and the first Muslim elected to Congress.

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[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. Not only were Goode's statements foully racist

But he was being blatantly disrespectful to one of his Congressional peers. That is completely inconsistent with the professional decorum that is expected of someone in his position. PC is indeed dead, as the writer suggests, if it ever existed at all. Goode should be censured, at the very least.