The St. Louis City Treasurer under fire from numerous Missourians and other elected officials for a controversial remark has amended her original words. Speaking with the local daily, Tishaura Jones said:
“To be clear, I don’t think everyone who opposes President Obama is a racist. However, I cannot help but notice the Missouri State Fair incident is a part of an unprecedented level of disrespect directed at a president who happens to be African-American.”
Until the time in which our society can disagree without being disagreeable I will continue to call out racism when it is used to divide our great country. I understand discussing race may make some people uncomfortable and even angry, but I will not be bullied into silence. The day I stop speaking truthfully will be the day I step away from public office.”
I and many others appreciate Jones’s clarification that not “everyone who opposes President Obama is a racist.” However, Jones is guilty of the same racial offense which she charges to Clowngate: she herself was unable to disagree over issues without angrily taking to Twitter on taxpayer-funded hours arguing with residents who genuinely felt slighted by her original, offensive remark. If we’re to have a conversation about race, universally smearing Missourians as “racists” over dissent is hardly the way to begin. She attempted to bully Missourians—and her own constituents—into silence by immediately and baselessly smearing their character. She cannot now claim victim after those slighted by her attack ask legitimate questions about the public behavior of an elected official—her behavior. In fact, she attempts to malign Missourians yet again with her remark, by charging that the simple discussion of race “makes some people uncomfortable and angry.” Actually, it was Jones’s reckless character assassination of Missourians as “racists” for simply disagreeing with the President on policy that caused the anger. For her to omit this is dishonest and again makes her just as guilty of racial offense as she claims Tuffy Gessling caused.
Jones exposes the double standard: she’s free, on the taxpayer dime, to clown St. Louisans, but a rodeo clown is not free to clown the president.
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