We have seen another inappropriate outburst from the liberal left of the Democratic Party come and go without a word of outrage from Democratic leadership. US Representative Corrine Brown (D-FL) issued an incredibly racist statement in anger during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill between administration officials and members of Congress regarding the Haitian crisis. This outburst so stunned those at the meeting that condemnation of Brown?s statement has been streaming into the public forum. Curiously, but unsurprisingly, the Democratic Party leadership and leadership from the activist liberal left has been deafeningly silent.
Rep. Brown, obviously unprepared for the meeting to which she was invited and delinquent in her level of familiarity with those with which she would be meeting, exploded into a tirade accusing the Bush Administration of being racist for its approach to the Haitian crisis. Brown took exception with the fact the Bush Administration did not immediately deploy a security force to Haiti and that he refused refugee status for those who chose to participate in a mass exodus from Haiti to the United States amidst their social upheaval. She went on to deprecate the Bush administration for sending "a bunch of white men" as representatives to the meeting. This came as quite the statement to Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, himself of Mexican ancestry, who rebuked Brown, "As a Mexican-American, I deeply resent being called a racist and branded a white man."
