Cynthia McKinney joins civil rights history with “being in Congress while black” line

Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney got some fresh publicity when she apparently hit a Capitol Hill police officer who tried to stop her from entering a House building when he didn’t recognize her. It seems like an honest mistake, given that McKinney doesn’t get much face time on the cable nets and she’s even farther left, more anti-Jewish and paranoid than California’s Maxine Waters, but she’s blaming it on racism. Take it from a guy who hangs around the Capitol quite a bit – if you’re never harassed on the Hill, you must have figured out how to make yourself invisible.