[bourbon]

1) Stokes: The Black George Wallace? [by Sid Salter]

2) Aren't Our Leaders Fed Up With the Antics of Kenneth Stokes?

3) City needs recall option to rid ward of Stokes

4) Stokes an impediment to racial reconciliation

These articles are must-reads. Especially #4. Here's an excerpt:

Kenneth I. Stokes last week raised the volume on his ineffective jawboning, even firing blanks this way.

"We don't think of Eric Stringfellow just as an Uncle Tom, but a first-class Uncle Tom," Stokes said in response to a recall proposal aimed at him.

He gets better. "Everyone knows that Eric Stringfellow doesn't write those columns. They just put his picture on them. And if Eric Stringfellow wants Kenneth Stokes out of office, he should move his ugly butt to Ward 3 and run against Kenneth Stokes. Tell him I said that."

wow.

[Yudan]

Eric Stringfellow went to Provine with my sister, if he's who I think he is. He was Mr. Provine in 1978. He's a good man, and obviously has a lot of courage of his convictions.