Posted on 01/08/2019 10:39:06 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The first African-American elected to serve as a commissioner for Hennepin County, Minnesota, was sworn in using a copy of the “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander, a best-selling book that examines how mass incarceration has devastated the black community.
According to The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Angela Conley is the first African-American to serve as commissioner in the county’s 166-year history. In representing the county’s fourth district, Conley will be representing parts of Minneapolis, it added.
The first African-American elected to serve as a commissioner for Hennepin County, Minnesota, was sworn in using a copy of the “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander, a best-selling book that examines how mass incarceration has devastated the black community.
According to The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Angela Conley is the first African-American to serve as commissioner in the county’s 166-year history. In representing the county’s fourth district, Conley will be representing parts of Minneapolis, it added.
Conley was reportedly sworn in on Monday by retired Hennepin County District Judge Pamela Alexander, who became the first African-American judge in the county nearly four decades ago.
Conley reportedly cited her own experiences receiving public assistance from the county roughly 20 years ago in propelling her into a career in public service.
She met with thousands of local residents during her campaign who she said “trusted me with their vote,” the Star Tribune reported.
“We fought hard and did it with joy,” she said, according to the local newspaper. “This seat belongs to the people who look like me and have traditionally been shut out of this room.”
The move comes several months after Mariah Parker, a then-26-year-old doctoral student who was elected to be Athens-Clarke County Commissioner, took her oath of office in June holding her hand to a copy of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
The incarceration is due to illiteracy which is due to public schools not teaching kids to read. Besides many other problems, the schools are over-crowded with illegal aliens and stuffed with propaganda instead of standard learning.
Yea, he’ll be a uniter, just like Obama.
So the "oath" is absolutely meaningless.
Typical proglib.
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“This seat belongs to the people who look like me and have traditionally been shut out of this room.”
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Sadly, I live in Hennepin County. She is not unique by any means. The whole government here is full of nuts.
He’d be better off reading Man Child in the Promised Land!
It should instead explain how criminal behavior results in the mass incarceration that has devastated the black community.
Don't do the crime, won't do the time.
It is very simple to fix the black incarceration problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnMdI_NiZvA
If’n the white man would just get his foot off-a-my throat I could be somebody.
Commie racist loon. Leftist welfare pograms destroyed the Black family, not enforcing the law against criminals.
Personally, I think that all Democrats should be restricted to being sworn in using a vintage copy of MAD magazine ...
When DIMs are sworn-in I believe they should be handcuffed and led off to prison.
“The incarceration is due to” the near total destruction of the black family by Lyndon Johnson and his fellow democrats who introduced the so-called “War on Poverty” with free stuff by the bucket load for single moms, leaving the dads free of responsibility. Their kids saw no reason they couldn’t have free stuff and turned to crime and were locked up when caught ... unless they were let go by judges who saw them as victims
Give up on Hennepin County. The libs have taken over and Minnesota is slowly going down the politically correct toilet.
If there was not mass crime in their community, there would be no mass incarceration.
I can understand, if not agree with, the Koran. It is, after all, a religious text. But just any old book? Why not swear in on a copy of “Black Panther”?
An oath sworn on a work of fiction is no oath at all. Now he can do whatever he wants in office and he has broken no vow.
Heck, if I were ever elected, I’d take the oath of office on a comic book. That’s how much of a joke our government has become. Third world country, heck no. We’re going all the way to fourth world country, below Somalia, Bangladesh and North Korea.
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