Michael Steele Shows His Softer, Gentler Side
September 4, 2009The HNIC of the GOP was speaking at Howard University the other day and of course, there’s a video of it. At the onset, you should know that I detest Michael Steele. He’s a sorry excuse for a chairman and is exactly what the Republicans need to further diminish their reputation with people of color and the poor.
Steele is just window dressing on a party that is chock full of racists, xenophobes and backward thinking zealots. Nothing about the GOP screams 2009, we’ve got to go back to at least 1959, the old days, where black people knew their place and everyone spoke English. As the GOP’s house negro, Steele thinks he’s immune to their racist tirades. They are not, he thinks, talking about HIM!
Although this video is less than six minutes, from watching it, I can hear the condescencion in Steele’s voice. He’s talking down to these students and is acting as if he and the Republican party really has something to offer them.
I was further incensed when I heard him mock a woman in the audience who said everyone should have health care. The young woman told Steele that her mother died from cancer six months ago because she couldn’t afford the chemotherapy treatments. Rather than offer condolences or acknowledge that our health care system needs to be fixed, Steele ridicules woman.
Acknowledging the fact that many Americans are without health care and sometimes die as a result of it is missing from the health care debate. We should really be talking about covering people who don’t have it and making sure people don’t go bankrupt because of it.
If Steele’s appearance was really about exchanging ideas and discussing health care, why isn’t he (and the rest of his GOP homies) capable of doing anything else but mocking someone who has been personally or financially devastated by our health care system?
