| If you are in Cullman County you would have received a couple of campaign flyers in the mail in the last couple of days. We in Cullman County will be voting on our replacement in the House. This is an office vacated by Neal Morrison (D) a few months ago by decree of Bob Riley and his appointed Chancellor. Enough of the background lets get into the meat of the story.
I retrieved the mail as always and noticed that I had two campaign flyers. One was from James Fields. Mr. Fields is the Democratic candidate for the House Seat. His flyer was a typical "I care about jobs, children and the community and I won't vote to raise taxes on working families, etc..." It was the usual type of document touting his abilities and beliefs. It made no mention of his Republican opponent.
Now don't get me wrong, Fields seems like a decent guy but I am not with him on his Pro-Life stance and as a Methodist minister he runs on about god and Jesus and all the other religious rubbish a bit too much. He would not be my first choice.
I read over the second flyer which was distributed by the Alabama Republican Party on behalf of Wayne Willingham. I was mildly amused. It was colorful and had juxtaposed lists of what was good about Willingham and what was incarnate evil about his Methodist minister opponent. I summarily trashed them both.
I continued on with my life by preparing dinner for my children when it suddenly dawned on me what was written on the Willingham flyer. I dug through the trash and had another look. The front was covered by a pack of hound dogs with the caption; "There are only certain dogs that can hunt..." The back of the flyer starts off with, "And there is only one candidate to represent Cullman County." Then further down the Willingham flyer in the comparison list of Willingham and Fields it mentions that Fields is a "Former State Employee" and then again it states that, "[Fields was] Never elected. Has held taxpayer funded positions in the public sector."
Now the kicker. James Fields is an African-American and Wayne Willingham is as white as milk. Do you see it? Am I reading more into it than I should or did Wayne Willingham and the Alabama Republican Party just say that James Fields is lazy and lives on welfare?
I'll break it down a little for you.
"There are only certain dogs that can hunt..." - Translation - Some dogs are just lazy black guys.
"And there is only one candidate to represent Cullman County." - Translation - Do you really want a lazy black guy representing Cullman County.
"Never elected. Has held taxpayer funded positions in the public sector." - Translation - Lazy black guy on welfare.
The only thing missing from this atrocity was a fried chicken or watermelon reference. Should I be as upset as I am? Mountain or molehill? Please let me know before I write a letter to the editor.
Here is a picture of the front of the flyer and the back. |
