This is what weapons-grade crazy looks like.
Former 4th District U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney has penned an autobiographical tome titled “Ain’t Nothing Like Freedom.”
The book dishes on Georgia politics – both Democratic and Republican, the pro-Israel lobby, “milquetoast blacks” and global politics – and outlines her experiences in the House of Representatives and running for president.
McKinney also opened her family and political photo albums for the 289-page book, sprinkling it with photographs of her parents, Billy and Leola McKinney, and photos of her at protests and on the campaign trail.
Chapters include “How to Steal an Election”; “America the Beautiful”; “The Politics of Love and Hate”; “What Hurricane Katrina Exposed”; “I Am Still Grieving”; and “Stone Mountain, Israel and Gaza.”
On her 2002 defeat by Denise Majette, whom she does not call by name, and the Republican “crossover” vote, McKinney says that state and national Democrats did nothing to help her and that the Georgia Democratic Party, led by Gov. Roy Barnes, whom she also does not call by name, refused to even question the legitimacy of “such a candidate” running as a Democrat.
“Needless to say, Georgia went Republican for the first time in its history in November 2002 and has lined up solidly behind the Republican Party every since,” she writes in the chapter titled “The Life I Live.”
“Timid Democrats, afraid of supporting a Black woman and of offending the pro-Israel lobby are the reason Georgia, with better than 30 percent Black (and Democratic-voting) population, remains in the Republican column. Due to the Democrats’ fear of standing up for me as I had stood up for them, in 2002, I was defeated for the first time in a decade by a Black candidate who was supported by Republicans, had given campaign contributions to Republicans, and to whom Republicans had given campaign contributions.”
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