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>We came We saw. But, we did not concur. That's the scoop from the recent
>"Open'' Redistricting Commission hearing. People (of color, mostly) filled to
>overflow the lovely hearing room and hallways of the 3rd floor of City Hall.
>All were observers, unless and until, that fortunate fraction of the mass who
>had signed up early, got 3 minutes to address the commissioners. I saw a
>whole contingent of Somalis who came and went without a word. All folks
>seemed glad to be there, though many were upset with a multitude of perceived
>threats to the well being of their wards. I included.
>
If, indeed, the winners are those who show up, then what happened?
>
>People of color were highly concerned that people who did not "look like
>them", white people, were again, coldly and unfairly, controlling their
>future, And I thought that anxiety was reasonable. In this new millennium, it
>seems venal to hugely increase in Ward 5, the concentration of poor people on
>the train while detaching the DT economic engine. By "Crossing West
>Broadway", that is incorporating the challenged chunk of Jordan into Ward 5,
>and eliminating DT; these commissioners have penciled in a ghetto. They then
>shout, success, we have created an "opportunity zone" with 85% people of
>color.
>
I think this issue is more than venal, way more. AAmericans seem to be
saying that it's anything but venal.
>
>
>She will always protest when people, not of color, concentrate her and her
>people up, based on race, and then say it is fair, and right, and a favor to
>them. And the commissioners didn't GET it.
>
Oh, but the commissioners do get it. And we get it, and everyone gets it.
>WizardMarks, Central
>
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