Posted on 08/19/2014 7:37:57 PM PDT by markomalley
After Michael Brown's death, left-wing activists, pundits, and the mainstream press have been blasting and maligning Ferguson's "white power structure," likening the city to a town in the Jim Crow South. They have lamented that though the city is nearly 70% black, "five of Ferguson’s six city council members are white" and "six of the local school board’s seven members are white." Ferguson's mayor, James Knowles, is also white. Even worse to the mainstream press and left-wing activists is that he's a Republican.
But in trying to further the narrative that the "white power structure" was somehow imposed on Ferguson's black residents, few have overtly made the point that Ferguson's black residents could have easily voted out these officials. And they did not. Knowles, who was first elected in 2011, actually ran unopposed in 2013.
According to an MSNBC report, local African-American leaders conceded that "blacks across the region simply haven’t participated in city elections." They are right. According to a Washington Post analysis, an estimated 6% of blacks and 17% of whites turned out for the 2013 municipal elections in the township, which are held in spring in odd-numbered years. In contrast, during the 2012 presidential election, 54% of blacks and 55% of whites turned out in November.
In the 2011 mayoral election, Knowles was first elected with 46% of the vote. He got 695 votes, Pearce Neikirk received 459, and incumbent Steven Wegert received 338. The New York Times noted that Knowles even "noted his disappointment with the turnout – about 12 percent – in the most recent mayoral election during a City Council meeting in April." Left-wing activists have asserted that since turnout is lower in odd-numbered years, Ferguson's elections perpetuate the "white power structure."
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Quite frankly, I don’t care if these people voted. They are breaking the law and need to be stopped!!!!!
They think it is bad now, wait until the council is six out of six black in that area.
Apparently the citizens were happy enough with their representation or they could’ve easily changed it.
Was Michael Brown registered to vote?
If they choose their grand juries from voter rolls, it will be primarily white.
Felons can’t vote.
There's no way he could get a fair trial in such a hostile environment...and the judiciary (and everyone else) knows it.
Leni
The whole system is racist. They need to make it so Obama can select local officials in cities, counties and states. That’s the only way we’re going to be “Healed” as nation.
“Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is ultra white. Blue eyes and all.”
But Detroit is digging out from 20 years of Coleman Young and those Black crooks who followed him.
BTW, the new Chief of Police is black, and is telling his citizens to buy guns for their own protection!
Oh, they voted... FIVE TIMES!
We have a winner!!! :-)
It would be interesting to see research on places where more black cops and more black politicians made things better for black people. It doesn’t seem like a formula for success. But honestly, when talking about Democrats, it is six of one, and half a dozen of the other. Everyone is screwed one way or the other, so why shouldn’t blacks be the purveyors of their own misery?
THEN.... you got your.... VOTER FRAUD thing goin on...
THAT...........Republicans absolutely REFUSE to face..
The entire area is controlled by the Democratic Party. They pick the candidate. The only fights are in the primary if two factions within the Democratic Party want the office for their faction. I’d be interested to know if the Republicans even run candidates for the most offices. I live in a district in L.A. that works the same way.
The people who are complaining should be questioning the Democrats and so should the MAN about the reasons the party mostly ran whites when they knew who ever they selected would be elected no matter what.
Here’s the “solution:” make the black’s vote worth 3 TIMES more than whitey’s... then it’ll be fair.
Enh..enh...emIright?
Quit bringing out truth and facts! Can’t haters just hate for.no.reason!?
That is the most painful 3:41 my brain has ever suffered through.
The one posing the question has more patience than Job & I do, combined.
There’s no state or federal election to pull up the turnout rate.
I’ll bet that the mayoral, city council and school board candidates don’t promise handouts like the state and federal candidates do.
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