Woman Accidentally Shot and Killed by Police: Right-Wingers Blame Victim

Posted by Clif, Sadly, No! at 6:03 AM on August 12, 2008.

People that try to look like Bette Midler and that call themselves goddesses are generally suffering from more than a delusion of divinity and a desire to be called "fabulous" by their hairdressers. And Amy Alkon, the so-called Advice Goddess and yet another feeble-minded member of Pajamas Media Nutwork, is no exception. Currently she is wasting cyberspace explaining why a black woman who was accidentally shot by the police during a drug raid deserved it.

Who Places A Lower Value On Black Lives? Would that be a police officer who accidentally shoots and kills a black woman, or that woman herself, a mother of six children by five different drug-dealing fathers, who takes up with yet another drug dealer?

Clearly the woman and not the cop who pulled the trigger. She wanted to die and he was just doing her a favor. This is a joke, right? Sadly, no. It's just more eliminationist rhetoric from a right-wing nut job:

Not surprisingly, black leaders are outraged. Also not surprisingly, their outrage is not directed at women in the black community who squeeze out litters of fatherless children, or the men who fuck and run, or fuck, deal drugs, and go to directly jail.

You mean the cops raided the home because the women had too many fatherless children? No, Amy just threw that in so that she could refer to "litters" of black children "squeezed" out by their sub-human black mothers. And to suggest people should be more outraged about the size of her oversized "litter" of black babies than by the fact that she got shot. My guess is that the closest this not-so-divine "goddess" ever came to socializing with a black person was a Saturday evening when she and her little Yorkie lap-dog watched an entire episode of "Cops."

Seriously, do the Pajamas Media folks draw any lines on racist rhetoric? How far can a Pajamas Media blogger go? If they can talk about "litters" of black children, can they just come out and refer to black people as "porch monkeys" or "thick-lipped spades" or "shiftless coons?" I think we all know the answer.

UPDATE: OMFG, I just refreshed Amy's post and see that I missed a bunch of the comments, including comments from Amy defending her post from charges of racism. And guess what, she's not racist, the people who are calling her a racist are the real racists:

I find it racist to say I can't criticize black people.

And that, I think, speaks for itself.

Tagged as: racism, police brutality, amy alkon

Clif is a blogger for Sadly No!