Brittany Wallman The Sun Sentinel

June 19, 2012
Brittany Wallman
The Sun Sentinel

RE: Brenda Snipes, the Supervisor of Elections, has been working out of her car for the last 9 years? Thanks for breaking that story in today’s Sun Sentinel

Ms. Wallman,

OOOPS!

Because she doesn’t have a boffo office – Do you remember the throne room built by Sheriff Ken Jenne, AKA Emperor Kenneth the Short before he went to prison? – her supporters say it is because of racism.

Apparently the Broward County Courthouse will shortly fall down from water damage, termite assault, and an embarrassingly inept judiciary. Is that proof of racism or judicial activism?

At this point I would mention that correlation is not causation. I would say something about the fallacy known as post hoc ergo propter hoc but that might label me as an elitist and a slave to DWEMs.

Perhaps we can apply the same thought process to a different social problem.

Since 1973 somewhere between 35% and 40% of the abortions in this country have been performed on Black women. A different way of saying it would be that 6% of the population has committed about 22,000,000 acts of extreme child abuse.

Would that be prima facie evidence of racism?

About 1/3rd of your article is given off to a lower case History of racism in general and in the South in particular. I am sure there is a good reason for this but it escapes me.

If lack of a splashy office is racism per se what does the absence of a majority of White ball players on the Miami Heat indicate? A level playing field would suggest at least 8 members of the team should be non Negroid? If we accept the labeling of George Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic” by the New York Times the number would be higher. If a seat is reserved for a gimpy, melanin and calorically challenged, curmudgeonly senior citizen could you put my name forward?

Proud of my Hudson County, NJ roots I secured six – 6 - voter ID cards under the glorious reign of Dr. Snipes’ predecessor, Miriam Oliphant. You may recall that she was fired by the Governor for incompetence. A case could be made for the lack of an office for Ms. Oliphant being the cause of her incompetence. Since we know that the absence of a private loo, the faulty A/C, and a couch with only 3 legs is the result of racism my six ID cards were – you guessed it – racist. The fruit from the poisoned tree and all that.

A similarity between Dr. Snipes and Ms. Oliphant is that they both have multiple degrees in something called education. Since it defies a single declarative sentence definition of what that is I can assume that it has no right angles in its structure. Mathematics, biology, romance languages, even library science has them.

Of one thing we can be 100% metaphysically positive. Neither they nor their supporters have ever encountered a Logic class.




Kevin Smith