Re [Mpls] City Pages: 8th Ward white

[Loki Anderson]

My apologies to Wizard for attributing her remarks to the wrong neighborhood. Precincts 8-5 and 8-10 are the portions of the Ward, east of I-35, south of Sabathani going all the way down to the creek . Not King Field. The City Pages was responsible for bringing King Field into the conversation, not Wizard.
 
My bad. Mea Culpa.
 
By the by, Precinct 8-5 was won by Hayden.
 
Loki Anderson
Downtown

wmmarks <wizardmarks at earthlink.net> wrote:
Fredric Markus wrote:

>The voters in 8-5 and 8-10 south of 38th and east to Chicago will decide
>this matter, by and large, and none of us will know for sure to what degree
>race may have influence in these decisions.
>
Those two precincts were most hostile to African American candidates in 
the past before the ward boundaries changed. When I door knocked with an 
African American candidate in those precincts, one householder spit on 
the candidate and several refused to speak to the candidate. On one 
block the whites made the atmosphere so hostile that even black voters 
dared not speak to the candidate for fear of retaliation from neighbors 
who were avidly watching them.

> What is clear is that class has
>already made its point and that, I think, ought to be understood by the city
>generally as a legacy arranged for by the majority redistricting
>commissioners. 
> 
>
Actually, it was not class, but a lack of class on the part of the 
redistricting commission as well as others that produced this situation.

>WizardMarks, Central
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