Doug Grow reveals his skewed perceptions regarding community leadership. http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4161414.html
Once again the The Johannesburg Times' token liberal columnist instructs us on the differences between a good knee-grow (City Council Member Don Samuels) and a bad knee-grow (Reverend Randolph Staten). Aside from being sooooo 60s (you know, like those rabble-rousing, obstreperous negroes who called themselves the Black Panthers), Staten served workhouse time for writing bad checks. Excuse, me, but at least Staten served time for his crime. How many whites, politicians and ordinary citizens alike, have written bad checks and not been punsihed, let alone tried and convicted? Evidently, Don Samuels thinks it's a bad thing that the black community is "traditionally theocratic". Why shoudn't black communities in Minneapolis and elsewhere be theocratic when our dominant legal, political, cultural and economic institions reamain racist? ----Peter Schmitz CARAG REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
