Posted on 12/07/2020 4:27:19 PM PST by TigerClaws
We’ve seen a lot of "Black Girl Magic" with appointments, elections and promises, and some brothers have been wondering, “What about us?”
In March, during a presidential debate, Democratic candidate Joe Biden promised to name a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. He won his party’s nomination, and he was urged to include a Black woman on the ticket. Enter Kamala Harris, now United States vice president-elect. He’s named a Black woman from Baker as the next United Nations ambassador. A Black woman will soon replace a Black woman as a Louisiana Supreme Court justice.
My Black sisters have been on a roll. I’m happy for them, and for us. I love Black women, and I love when they succeed. Encouraged by his wife, Dr. Betty Shabazz (aka Betty X), Malcolm X won praise and support from Black women after a 1962 Los Angeles speech when he said society has neglected and failed to protect and value Black women. “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman,” he said.
It’s about time they get more recognition.
But I have shared concerns expressed by a number of my Black brothers. What about us?
When New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams trounced Keva Landrum in the New Orleans district attorney’s race with a 58% win, some were stunned. I wasn’t. A lot of Williams supporters whooped — but perhaps none as much as the brothers.
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Williams was indicted on 11 counts of fraud and tax charges by a federal grand jury in June, accused of falsely reducing his tax liability to limit taxes owed for at least five years. “This can’t be,” responded some Black folks. Then, “Here we go again.” Williams says it's the fault of his tax preparer.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
I'm sure that'll improve things in the Chocolate City.
I live about a hundred miles up the road from New Orleans. The place is a clown act, without seeing it up close you absolutely can’t imagine how corrupt it is. It’s almost comical.
As the Crow flies or as the gator swims?
Only in Louisiana would they elect a lead prosecutor who is under indictment.
Washington DC elected Marion Barry who was caught smoking crack with a prostitute.
Anything goes in the urban areas.
Skin color and plumbing make a person better able to do a job?
And don’t forget Alcee Hastings a disgraced District Court Judge that was impeached then elected to Congress...
Have to wonder if the same crap that gets sent back to represent ‘ALL’ of us is just some sort of in your face game.
On BOTH sides of the aisle and doesn’t matter what the race or orientation is,
‘WE’ can all sit around and gripe about how bad ALL lawyers, teachers, Congresscritters, Senators etc etc are
BUT
‘Mine is OK’..... which is why we keep getting the same old trash...
TERM LIMITS can’t be gotten at the ballot box and ‘they’ have written the laws in their own favor so as legislation will never pass inre term limits.
Kind of like letting the fox guard the hen house door....
Only in Louisiana would they elect a lead prosecutor who is under indictment.
Elsewhere they just elect prosecutors who should b under indictment.
One of my favourite races of all time was Roemer vs Duke vs Edwards.
A Rino king finishes third behind a Republican Klansman and a former Dem Governor fresh out of prison. Vote for the crook—it’s important.
I lived in NOLA for many years. It is indeed corrupt, and from what I understand is getting moreso. It is and has been a Democrat-controlled city, so that could explain things. I could be wrong, but the last time there was a Republican on the NOLA City Council was back in the 1980s, a woman named Peggy Wilson (who, though nominally a Republican, was no conservative).
“TERM LIMITS can’t be gotten at the ballot box and ‘they’ have written the laws in their own favor so as legislation will never pass term limits.”
Skin color and indoor plumbing make a person better able to do a job?
Evidently...
Yes, that is what I implied...
I had a long departed Retired Marine Col always insist we don’t need term limits, that is what voting is for....
Well, we know that really doesn’t work....STILL...
Just Us.
Kind of demolishes the “color blind” claim, doesn’t it?
I’m a Cajun and proud of it. However, my home state is the very definition of corruption. Don’t know why, because when one goes to the level of folks at the family level, you’ll find that you will not be let down. But, somehow, when the politics take over, we seem to regress to Massachusetts, California and Chicago levels of corruption. Multiplied x10.
I’m in New Orleans, but planning on moving to Metairie or the North Shore in the next six months.
IIRC, the election was delayed one month due to a hurricane earlier that year messing up the primary elections, which caused the usual crowd to lose interest in the general election (as Obama had already won). They were still distracted by all the partying - and an unknown Vietnam-born attorney managed to win that seat. Of course, the local New Orleans politicos were outraged. Aghast, even, that Jefferson had been deprived of Obama's fraud, er, coattails.
These are the sort of people that the Democrats want running the entire country.
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