Mayor Pete...

This NY Times article is not good for "Doogie Howser" as one of the persons commenting on the story referenced Mayor Pete. He wants us to believe that he never heard tapes of White police officers speaking disparagingly about Black folks and on hearsay alone, at the start of his term, he fired a popular and well liked Black Police Chief? That seems incredible. The tapes must be salacious and vile against Black folks. WHY would the Mayor throw the Black Police Chief under the bus so early in his tenure? To score points with whom? Why wouldn't he have wanted to take a strong stand and rid the police department of the cancer of racism? Would his response have been the same if the content of the tapes were vile and anti-Gay?

Gay Americans claim to align themselves with Black Americans and identify with our civil rights issues and then things like this happen that suggest otherwise. This accounting does not indicate in any way that Mayor Pete reached out to work with, to service or improve conditions for Black constituents in any real way. To our chagrin however, the article suggests that we, Black folks, overwhelmingly supported his re-election bid in the primaries against a Black candidate AFTER the tape incident. SMH... Now I don't know the politics and of course all skin folks ain't kinfolk, but WHY do WE keep shooting ourselves in the foot and extinguishing our voice politically? Ferguson is another town where we seem not to vote according to our representation despite the horrors of politics against our interest in that city too.

This is going to be an interesting saga to watch unfold. Released tapes or not, at some point, Mayor Pete is going to have to address what appears a dismal or lackluster record in the Black and Brown communities. No Democrat can win a national election without our support. I will stay tuned. So far, I am not on board Ship Buttigieg...

This is a long but worthy read. Mayor Pete is a popular candidate. We must get to know him...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.html?fbclid=IwAR09dFvo49ZmAgMIzu_yYtkaJ0mazWIqFVbq14Ukz8vTzs5w9YNK0d49UyA#commentsContainer