Rep. Maxine Waters to Tea Party: "Let’s get it on". Which side would win this match?

Diana - you are the one who assumed that my race had something to do with my opinion of Ms. Waters lack of intellect. Au’ Contraire, I really, really like it when I see my folks doing well and making sense....Ms Waters et al, must stop using street slang for violence, race as a reason and success as a whipping boy...

Race is always present, can't be denied. I can say I wish I was Italian so I could have wavy hair, but not happening. Race is a characteristic just like height, weight and demeanor - we humans judge it. The fat guy is out of shape, maybe he's a Sumo - but unlikely. The tatted up Hispanic guy, with his pants hanging below his butt, maybe a Rhodes Scholar - probably not. The black dude in the big dodge pickup with the cowboy hat, pulling a stock trailer full of cows is probably a rancher - now some people wouldn't think I owned the truck or the cows, but that's their problem not mine. The white woman with 8 inch stilettos on and a shirt showing the curve of her butt on Speedway BLVD in Tucson at 11:30 at night on the street corner maybe a interpretative dancer waiting on her ride to the theatre, probably not. A saying that I really dislike is “it is, what it is”….mainly because it’s nonsense English…but, I suppose it does express a certain exactitude about people. Generally speaking – they are what they appear to be, and if you hear them speak you now have confirmation or denial of that appearance.

I do not presume or assume anything about anyone, but I do use judgment based on years of experience and observation – if it looks like a duck sort of logic. So, when I hear Ms Boxer, a black woman, say “this liberal is all about the government owning the oil companies”, I know it wasn’t for her educational background, her business acumen or her sound reasoning that people in her district voted for her.

At least that’s what my 60+ years of experience would tell me about her. And when I hear, “let’s get it on” coming from her mouth, my early years are remembered and the remembrances of the blows beginning to fall return. Now, if she had said, “I welcome a spirited debate and revealing of facts and historical truths”, gosh I would have been impressed instead of going “shish, are we EVER going to outgrow using such language in our official dealings”. I’ll tell you I felt the same thing when Mr. Bush couldn’t pronounce Nuclear…I mean come on man, you can do it.

I tell all of my children and grandchildren - walk, dress and speak as you wish to be perceived....so far all but one of the granddaughters is taking the advice very well.