Where are the elders in the room?
Where is the moral and conscious and the wise of the Black political elected officials because there is a pandemic of ineffective, soulless politicians that exhibit leech like behavior in their quest for undeserved riches and visions of grandeur as a select group of politicians of color have mastered the game of musical chairs with a relentless and endless pursuit of pursuing and positioning themselves to be re-elected or the insatiable desire to adhere to a “higher” calling while promising to deliver manna and honey to their impoverished but hopeful constituency and as usual as in the new Assemblywoman Tina McKinnor’s case they show promise but usually compromise their moral compass for a campaign donation or a photo opportunity with a highly popular Congressman in Adam Schiff whom in D.C. circles is rumored to use the impeachment of former President Donald Trump as an opportunity to build his profile for a potential run for the U.S. Senate seat that’s supposedly being vacated by the esteemed Senator Diane Feinstein as rumors of her imminent retired swirled around DC for years.
With that being said Tina McKinnor’s defense of her endorsement should be met with a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson side eye because although justifying her endorsement of Congressman Schiff based on his vote on the ‘George Floyd Act” is the equivalent as members of Congress whom of non-Black origin wearing Kinte Cloth for one day on the floor of Congress during black history month in a show of solidarity and empathy.
Yes, I do admit that Adam Schiff is an “ideal” candidate for the United States Senate’s esteemed chambers based on old ideology and a bastion and chamber of racism and prejudice that speaks of the dream of “equality ” for all but I argue how long do we hold on to the tepid support and opportunistic hope sold by the democratic party and knowing that intimately shouldn’t this principle and or ideology guiding Assemblywoman McKinnor’s endorsement because based on her reasoning and rationale she should have thrown her support behind Congresswoman Barbara Lee who has a tried and true record of introducing and co-authoring legislation that aligns with people of color more than Schiff’s “no brainer” support of the George Floyd Act.
I mean this “George Floyd Act” is like the American Express Black card – all you have to do is whip it out and you get an undeserved 5-year term as Los Angeles Police Department or in Schiff’s case you can exploit a nine-minute, gruesome modern day lynching as a catapult to the United States Senate.
Speaking of Barbara Lee as a Black woman who blazed a trail for black women to be elected to the California legislature and this ambiguous term of ” black girl magic” at this crucial moment in time as we see more women assume seats of power in elected office owes Congresswoman Lee an “obligatory” endorsement in “Wakanda” like fashion simply for the culture. I mean why else is she running around wearing that…never mind.
I mean as the old saying goes “anything else would be uncivilized”.
In closing this dialogue that Assemblywoman McKinnor chooses to spew is a result of a guilty conscience that literally and figuratively got caught with her hands in the cookie jar because let’s be real, McKinnors defense of her endorsement of Schiff, in the immortal words of Snoop Dogg “smells like an old batch of collard greens”.
Marvin McCoy is a lifelong Inglewood resident and can be reached at therealmccoymarketinggroup@gmail.com or on Twitter @MarvinM83905936