You know, Dorothy Tillman may have some impressive hats, but it's too bad she doesn't have an impressive brain to go with those hats. I mean, she just insulted the hell out of an entire ward, because she thinks that those black people should not have elected a white person: ''We want that seat to belong to an African American. We want to make sure we take that seat as part of our 20 super-majority black wards," Tillman said. But the fact remains that, you know, a ward composed of 85% blacks did elect that man. Whether or not he goes into the Black Caucus depends on the purpose of the caucus: if it's to represent the interests of black constituents, then he should certainly be a member; if it's to represent the interests of black aldermen ... why do they need it? (Of course, this assumes that the aldermen recognize that their interests and their constituents' interests are not necessarily one and the same, which, frankly, I rather doubt.)
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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