Isaiah McGee, Black Iowa Republican Official, Defends Rep. Steve King's (R-IA) Comments That Obama "Favors Blacks"

Isaiah McGee, black Iowa Republican official, defends U.S. Rep. Steve King's recent comments on radio show that President Obama favors blacks.

Isaiah McGee, a black former member of the Republican Party of Iowa State Central Committee, is engaging in some "Uncle Tomish" behavior. He is defending U.S. Rep. Steve King's recent comments about President Barack Obama having a "default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race, on the side that favors the black person." Who is Isaiah McGee? He serves as Mayor Pro-tem of Waukee and president of the African American Business Association. He is the first Republican to take King's side in the aftermath of this ugly statement.

In an opinion piece published at The Iowa Republican, McGee says when put in context, King’s comments were correct.

Looking at the context of the interview, King was explicitly referring to Obama’s swift condemnation of the Cambridge officer acting “stupidly” toward Professor Skip Gates. Congressman King is right. Obama made a rash decision to condemn the officer, not because he was sticking up for a friend or fellow academic, but rather there has been a history in which black people have felt harassed by police for nothing other than being black and Obama assumed that this was the case in this situation. The irony is in Obama siding with Gates, he himself profiled the situation. Could it be that profiling and stereotyping is indeed innate? We profile, we stereotype because it helps us to make sense of things.

The outrage towards King’s comments provide an example of how difficult it is to discuss race in our society, McGee said, concluding that when “someone like Congressman King says, ‘OK let’s talk about race, here’s what I think,’ the reaction is fierce, brash and frequently close minded.” Source: Iowa Independent

Sorry, but no matter how you look at King's comments, made during an interview on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show, they were just downright deplorable. I am also amazed that there are some blacks who are only too happy to take the side of someone whose comments are also as slap in his or her face.

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