[Mpls] 8TH WARD CONVENTION (City Pages & race-baiting)

[Diane Wiley]

well, this is the first time anyone has called me naive in about 30 years -- 
of course race played a role, it always does, in just about everything, as
does class.  And I personally had white people tell me that they were
supporting Jeff or Titi because he/she was the most viable African American
candidate and we need another person of color on the council.  I don't
disagree with that thinking, it's a legitimate consideration.  My question
is why there was such a strong assumption that people in the convention were
trying to BLOCK there being an endorsement of a black candidate.  And
Wizard, your analysis that Titi just overreacted because she lost is
interesting.

Diane Wiley
now of Tangletown


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