February 4, 2016

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

10100 Pines Blvd

Pembroke Pines, FL 33026

RE: Separate, Si! - Equal, No!

Congressperson W-S

You gave a speech – hectoring would be a better word – about how complaisant today’s Cosmo girls have become. A full generation into gender studies, a feminine perspective of geometry, and why Ken gives male chauvinism a bad name and the sisterhood is not, forgive me, manning the barricades on the road to equality. You say that since they have grown up with the benefits of Roe v Wade they have lost the edge that their forebears bought to the arena. It was, by modern American Liberal standards, a good speech. In a world where “Midnight Basketball”, “Leading from Behind”, and “You can’t have a victim without a villain” are coin of the realm all things are possible.

Is it possible that a President of the United States, and let me qualify the noun President by appending Black to it, can speak in a mosque where students are separated by sex and not “appreciate” the irony?

One of the hallmarks, indeed one of the essential building blocks, the capstone if you will, of modern American Liberalism is “eclectic indignation”.

It enables you to say with a straight face that Hillary Clinton “won” Iowa by “winning” 6 straight coin tosses. It means that you can say with a straight face that you only earn 79% of what Congressman Alcee Hastings earns. It enables you to say with a straight face that Hillary Clinton is shattering the “glass ceiling” despite having a resume of advancing career wise every time her husband advanced politically. [Would it be fair to say that Walmart became “bad” after she left the Board? Would it be fair to say that she got the job because her husband was Governor of Arkansas, a state where Walmart was domiciled?]

I never thought that I could rise to the defense of her husband, Handsome Billy from Hot Springs, but faced with the prospect of waking up next to that shrieking hag I too would step out to the wild side.

Which brings us back to the mosque.

Quien sabe but maybe Allah is Akbar.

I hope, I really really hope, that no involuntary cliteroidectomies [Can they ever be voluntary?] that no crucifixions, that no beheadings, that no stoning of women taken in adultery, has occurred? I can, can’t I?

It is a place where virginity is prized as a gift for martyrs.

I do not know how representative this nest of vipers is.

I do know that “qui tacet consenstit” still applies.

I do know that by his silence the President of the United States, the Black President of the United States, approves of these aforementioned barbaric practices. I guess speaking truth to power only applies to banks and fast food companies.

Would Hillary Rodham Clinton be made welcome in this mosque?

Would Michele Obama be made welcome in this mosque?

Why didn’t the President’s 2 daughters accompany him?

Each goes to a school where the tuition is $5,000 a month for each of them. Every month. [One of the benefits of living rent free in public housing is that you can bypass the really great public school system in Washington. Do you think Bernie will change that when he gets to the White House?]

What a “show and tell” they could have had!

A Versace burqa, Nike Lady Jordan sneakers and both sneaking in a chunk of bacon. What’s the sense of being a teenager if you can’t act like one?

I guess we need to repeal Plessy v Ferguson again. I guess Brown v Board of Education didn’t quite do the job. Maybe the Clinton Crime Family Foundation can raise some money from the Sheik of Araby to support eh Equal Rights Amendment. Maybe I’ll get a pulled pork sandwich in Mecca. Maybe La Cage au Folles will open in Riyadh. Maybe the mosque where the President spoke will have same sex marriages. Maybe pigs will fly.

Yet more proof that Yeats was right.

America, “a shining city on the hill”, except for girls.

Kevin Smith

PS – What should I tell Caitlin, Caroline, and Julia, my granddaughters?