Quote:That's certainly the opinion the Democratic Party holds for minorities.

I love it when this is pointed out, because Democrats automatically get defensive. I mean, look at Corrinne Brown. She was a champion for the black community in Jacksonville, right? What did she really do to help the black community? Show up at a memorial service or festival every so often to show off a new hat? Stand around talking about making the community better while crack was being sold in the front row? And yet so many of my friends back in Jacksonville consider her to be some mythical hero. Why? No one can really articulate why beyond, "She was an anchor for this community."

 

Yeah, she was. And like any good anchor, she did her best to drag her constituents down to the bottom. Why did so many people, and why do so many people still hold her in such high regard? Could it be because we had 20 years of black political figures telling us how great she was, and what a spearhead she was for the black community, even though she was accomplishing nothing other than lining her own pockets? They wouldn't possibly have been telling everyone that because it was politically convenient to keep a divisive figure like Corrinne Brown in place and make sure people looked up to her and her rhetoric?

 

And who did that benefit, exactly? Certainly not the people who were singing her praises as their kids' applications were rejected by FCCJ. But it did benefit the Democratic Party, which had literally nothing to worry about in subsequent elections. They'd never lose that seat to a Republican. Was anyone else totally unsurprised that the redistricting that forced Brown out was promptly followed by a series of indictments to shut her up and discredit her? The Democratic Party cares about the black vote, not about the black population. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that.

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