Alan Gutierrez

Shelly Midura cries during a City Council meeting because Mamma D called her “David Duke in a Dress”. At the moment of heartbreak, Shelly certianly had not drawn the lesson. When I ask my friends about it, their advice is, never let them see you cry.

Have I learned from Shelly’s mistakes? In tears, Shelly said “We need to put race beind us.” It must be hard for her to see how self-serving that sentiment is.

Update: Bart Everson corrects the course of events in the comments.

Update: This story about using MLK and Parks to sell pickups reminds me of the IG incident. If you don’t recall, she began by quoting King.

At the Neighborhoods’ Planning Network, Oliver Thomas, our Council-man at Large, said that this was the time for neighborhoods to advocate for one another. That by pitting neighborhoods against each other, the Council is able to couch our common interests and competing interests. He said that if we were to join a distant neighborhood in a rally for their needs, and they were to reciprocate, we’d find that we would diminish the ability of the Council to divide and rule. Fortunately, we retained Councilman Thomas in the last election, by a landslide. We’re not stupid.