Tuesday's council meeting
I dropped by Tuesday to witness firsthand the shows of support for Councilwoman T. Dianne Bellamy-Small.
The planned rally did not happen.
The show of support for her later at the council meeting consisted of a handful of speakers one of whom was her pastor, who conceded Bellamy-Small's tendency not to return phone calls.
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Posted on March 7, 2007 8:44 PM
Thanks for the post Allen.
After watching WFMY's coverage they led you to believe the room was packed with DBS supporters.
Their story made me wonder if I had missed something because I only saw 2 or 3 people from her district speak.
Has there been any explanation why the "community rally" called for did not materialize?
Could it be???...that there is not enough support for a "rally"?
Posted on March 9, 2007 10:28 AM
Hmmmm,
Where are all the folks that claimed FGs perhaps ill advised comments would make TDBS a martyr, cause celeb, etc? Aint happenin... to date anyway.
Posted on March 9, 2007 2:55 PM
Mick, we'll see when election time rolls around. No one will be happier to be proven wrong than me.
Allen, you should contact Margaret Moffett Banks, who apparently didn't notice what you did: that the "planned rally did not happen." Although she advertised the rally the day before, she changed it to a "meeting"--with no mention whatsoever that it had been advertised as anything else--when she reported it. I guess it would have been anticlimactic to note that it fizzled. Read the two stories back-to-back and you'll see what I mean.
Still, the sim-event got reported (albeit inside the paper, a small victory), just as the press-release "boycott" of the N&R got reported. My point: these are simulated events that only occur if you--that is, the News and Record--notice them.
As long as you notice them and afford the race-brokers some measure of respect, such events will continue to occur. The black community for which such self-appointed spokespersons purport to speak will continue to purportedly speak through them. Black people will learn what their purported spokespersons are saying on their purported behalf about the purported lynching of their elected representative. Many will sign on to the purported black point of view, unless some other arbiter of black consciousness (the Simpkins PAC, e.g.) tells them otherwise. Meanwhile, up in Irving Park, people will read the paper, roll their eyes over the latest crude play of the race card and wonder when "those people" will ever get it together and elect somebody decent enough not to embarrass her constituency. The cycle will continue.
Posted on March 10, 2007 2:00 AM