I am sorry, but what color is people of color? People throw around the term
as if it only means Black. Robert Lillegren does have Indian heritage. Who
knows what other Council Member might be something other than WHITE? Where
is the drive to get a Hispanic person on the Council? An Asian? Hey, or
even a poor white person? (I consider poor white people to have color
also). Hey, and what about us generic mutts that are several colors rolled
into one.
We need qualified caring people, what ever the color of their skin, lets
drop this numbers game and concentrate on quality, not color.
Jim Graham,
Ventura Village
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loki Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mpls Issues List" <mpls@mnforum.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:22 PM
Subject: [Mpls] African Americans on the Council
I know the Johnson Lee campaign, in its desperate attempt to portray
their candidate as a martyr for minority representation, would prefer we
not recognize this fact, but am I the only one who believes Minneapolis
stands an excellent chance at having three African American City Council
Members come December? In addition to Don Samuels, who I desperately hope
will overcome the slime and mud being hurled at him from his opponent's
partisans, Ralph Remington is still the leading candidate in the Tenth
Ward and it looks like Jeffrey Hayden has a very good chance of winning in
the Eighth Ward.
Minneapolis has only had two persons of color on the council at the
same time (SSB and Van White from '85 to '89), so we're well on our way to
improving on that. And if we include Robert Lilligren...
Loki Anderson
Marshall Terrace
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