[Mpls] African Americans on the Council

[gemgram]

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" <lokileague at yahoo.com>
To: "Mpls Issues List" <mpls at 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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